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Fringing reefs are the most common type of reef. A fringing reef starts when corals grow close to the shore along a contour that corresponds to the low water mark at low tides. As the reef ages and if water levels stay constant, the reef grows away from the shore and develops a steep outer or...

The Fish of the Week is the Mystery Wrasse. It may be found across the Pacific Ocean at depths along the outer reefs. Pseudocheilinus ocellatus has thin vertical lines (kind of unusual for wrasses), often with yellow around the eyes and a defining tail spot. It has face markings, like many...

Everyone has snails, or do they? I ran out of choices to include. Take the time to look up some of these you don't have. My Stomatella came as hitch hikers. This one below fluoresces at night with UV light.

What wrasses do you keep. Feel free to post a picture of yours so people can learn about wrasses. Look up the wrasses mentioned to find out more. Here is my Yellow Wrasse. He hides when I near the tank.

Some people (Europe) won't start a reef tank until sponges are growing. Some like encrusting sponges are pests. Others add color or unique interest to your tank. I recommend you use this poll as an opportunity to learn a little about the mushrooms in the poll. Here is one sponge photobombing...

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Black Friday has come and gone. Almost everyone in the reef industry has some dort of sale. What did your tank get.

What types of Anemones do you have, or have had. Post a picture of you favorite one. I think this tang wanted to know if it was a friend or "an Enemy".

I realized that I hadn't started a tale of the tank thread. I will add a few shots one post at a time until I catch up. This picture was taken (Dec 2015) after the cycle and the introduction of my first fish. I went with a 65 gallon tank as it was the biggest I could find for a 3 foot wide...

If you missed the club behind the scenes tour last fall, you can attend a behind the scenes tour on November 5 or Dec 2, 9:30-11:00 AM. They probably will have them monthly during the off season. These are not club activities. You must preregister with the aquarium. Cost $15 adults, $10...

I was thinking of creating a sign for drink tank names. Here are a few drink names I was considering: Reef Rum Zoa Infusion Coral Smoothie Copepod Cocktail Hitch Hiker Mojito, on the rocks Any Suggestions?

I decided to enter the contest. First order of business is to get the live in live rock. I am starting with a partial bucket of used tank water in it. I have a power head, heater (not sure I need that), the primary coral I plan to use, two pieces of coral from my tank which I may use, but is...

After 1 and 1/2 years, I am starting to get some algae in my tank. The bubble algae is easy to identify but I am having a harder time with a few others. Is this one a type of caulpera?

It looks like they are nearing completion of the renovation. It looks like they are putting in a few tanks near the new entrance. I wanted to check out under the stand. They had a few new things to see.

I stopped in at the Mystic Aquarium. While I didn't see the blue lobster I remembered from the last trip, I was surprised to see a beluga whale. I was asked to post a few pictures from their reef tank. I included a few others as well which will be in the first post. I like hogfish. The Cichlid...

I took my grand daughter to Jenkinson's aquarium to find it open but under renovation. I was told that the reef tank at the entrance had been taken down. That is the tank I always spent the most time looking at. Does anyone have any information on their plans for replacement reef tanks, if any?

It was nice to go into the basement and upstairs behind the large tanks to see the aquarium from the tank keeper's perspective. It is a lot of work keeping a reef tank. And with as many tanks as we saw, that takes a lot of work. Of not, it looked like sandy flooded the basement in around 44...

Njtigers24 aquariums requested someone follow up on his request to continue the daily photos by month. I will do this but with 2 pictures a day to try and tell a story. The fist set is a Yuma Ricordea. The first picture is shortly after I placed it in the yank. It has since moved to a crevasse...

Here is how to order NJRC T-shirts for October 2016. Cost of Tee shirts will be $12. You can choose size (I will assume mens sizes unless otherwise specified), color (Light blue or Grey) and whether you want to pick up at meetings or have them mailed. If you want them mailed, add $3 to the cost...