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 keep the water parameters stable. I had an incident where I added a cup or so of top-off water and all the corals shriveled up to nothing. A few of them died within hours. The rest took a week or more to recover.
At that point, my top priority was to get a bigger tank. I quickly moved everything into a 40 gallon tank and ran that for a few months while I looked for an even bigger tank.
The end result is this, that I set up in November, a 75 gallon tank.
And here are a few random pictures from it.
I'll leave it at that for now. Though I'm going to try and get back active on this blog again. Shorter posts and more of them!
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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 keep the water parameters stable. I had an incident where I added a cup or so of top-off water and all the corals shriveled up to nothing. A few of them died within hours. The rest took a week or more to recover.
At that point, my top priority was to get a bigger tank. I quickly moved everything into a 40 gallon tank and ran that for a few months while I looked for an even bigger tank.
The end result is this, that I set up in November, a 75 gallon tank.
And here are a few random pictures from it.
I'll leave it at that for now. Though I'm going to try and get back active on this blog again. Shorter posts and more of them!