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Aiptasia Anemone Photo

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Glasrose aka Aiptasia Anemone

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Removing Aiptasia with Aiptasia X (video)

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Awesome 500G Reef Tank Move

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Summer Heat and your Reef Tank.

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Virtual Tank Tour: Oceanus Inland Reef

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A Match Made in Heaven

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Vornado Clip-on Fan for Tank Cooling

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Reverse Durso to Quiet a Noisy Drain

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Reef Tank Update

Wow, I've let this blog go fallow. While I've let this blog go stagnant, my fish tank activities certainly haven't. Last time I wrote here in May, I was running a 20 Gallon long reef tank. Lot has happened since then. Over the summer, I had a crash in that small tank. Newbie + small tank = likely disaster as it is very difficult to...
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Eunice Worm - Terror in the Tank

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New Corals

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Life and Death

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New Polyps

I've added a few new corals to the tank this past weekend. I've been going pretty small since it's only a 20 gallon tank. I figure I can get more smaller things in here and let them grow. The primary purchase was these button polyps. This rock, however, came with some nice bonuses. First, in the above picture you can see a few of...
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Anemone Identification

Can anyone help me identify these guys? They're tiny, maybe just a few mm across. In comparison, the zoanthids in these pictures are maybe 7-8 mm across. There are three of these anemones growing on a rock fragment that these zoanthids came on. I just noticed them for the first time today. At first I thought they were just some...
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Do you have a Salt Water Tank blog?

Not much going on in my aquarium these days. I'm letting things settle after the incident a few weeks ago. Everything seems to be doing fine, so if there was any danger in the first place from the contents of the hydrometer getting dumped into the tank, hopefully I prevented any issues by getting the affected sand and rock out of there...
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Disaster Strikes My Reef Tank

OK, so that's perhaps a bit dramatic, but man, what a day. I was measuring the salinity when the lid to my glass-top slammed shut right on the hydrometer. I ended up with the stem in my hand, and the bulb portion shot into the tank. The base must have torpedoed into the rock because the very bottom broke as well and all the little...
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Aiptasia Anemone Pictures

I've written in the past about the Aiptasia or Glass Anemone that came along with my live rock. As I was researching this, I had a hard time finding a good picture and as I was writing a few other posts, I just realized that I had a picture to share. It's not a very good one as mine was at an awkward angle, but with a little imagination,...
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New Inhabitants, Kicking it up a Notch

Undeterred by my first real setback (the death of a Cleaner shrimp), my daughter and I made a trip to the pet store this past weekend. In the past week, the algae has all but gone up and the water become very, very clear. If you compare older pictures with the ones I've got in this post, you'll see a significant difference in the amount of...
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Forty Dollar Fish Food

Yes, that's right. I don't know what the equivalent would be in our terms, but the crabs and fish had Cleaner Shrimp feast. The cleaner shrimp died about a week ago now. It started to moult while sitting right on top of the rocks. I thought it a little strange that it was there, unprotected. It had sort of stopped mid-moult with it's...
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New Livestock

Big trip to the pet store yesterday where I got a number of new animals to help get the tank in shape and the algae cleaned up. 3 Nassarius Snails @ $4.99 each 3 Blue Leg Hermits @ 2.99 each 3 Turbo Grazers @ 2.99 each 1 Cleaner Shrimp @ $39.99 And I picked up my first soft coral, a small Zoanthid for $39.99. I wanted to test and see...
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Reef Tank Update

There have been several new developments in a week since the last post. Two more hermit crabs have died. At least I think they died. Initially, I couldn't find empty shells for either crab. One of them was a larger crab and I can't imagine that I'd lose track of that shell. The other was one of the very small ones and I did later...
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First Casualty

A day or two ago, one of the hermits crawled out of his shell and made his way into the middle of the rocks, a fairly protected area. Certainly one that I cannot reach. At the time I noticed, I could see where it ended up, and it appeared that it wasn't moving at all. Since then, it's been flipped over and is very clearly dead. What...
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First Fish

We picked up our first fish today. My daughter picked it out. It's a Bangai Cardinal: I wanted to start out with something docile, not territorial, so a few other fish can be added later. This one fit the bill.
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Aiptasia - An Unwanted Tenant?

With the new 65W 24" now perched on top of the new glass top for my 20L Perfecto tank, things are really starting to grow. I picked these up a few days ago, along with three new blue legged hermits and three new turbo snails. The total livestock in the tank is now: 5 Blue Legged hermit crabs 1 Scarlet Legged hermit crab 5 Turbo...
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Algae Identification

The tank is now 5 days old and already algae is sprouting up all over the live rock. I have no idea what it all is except to call it "red algae", "green algae", and "fuzzy algae". In fact, I'm not even sure it's algae. So, in hopes that someone can enlighten me, here are some pictures... The following two pictures contain red algae...
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Water Tests and Light Purchase

I stopped by the pet shop yesterday afternoon to get my water tested. That's three days in a row at the pet store. I'm starting to feel a bit obsessed. They must see a lot of that -- new tank owners getting completely obsessed as things ramp up. I wanted to get the water tested since I did a "speed cycle" using BIO-Spira. The water...
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PRT Day 2

Second day of life for my new fish tank. The water in the tank has cleared up very nicely by now (it was still a bit cloudy yesterday), and all living things seem to be still that, living. I was concerned about one of the snails, but they have both climbed up the wall to the surface and are hanging out happily there. I am wondering if...
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Project Reef Tank Day 1

Today, I have embarked on a new hobby. I'm building a reef tank. A reef tank is a salt water fish tank in which you develop a living coral reef. I'm just learning about the process now and I thought I'd cronicle this project here. I've had a bad luck in the past with fresh water tanks, and after three or so years decided to give it...
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