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Day 18 The Orchid Dottyback is supposed to be one of the calmer Dottybacks. Mine chased my Royal Gramma and my Yellow Wrasse when I first put them in. I distracted it with 2 mirrors on the side of the tank. I think this is a great fish for a smaller rock dominated tank like mine. The first is...

That sounds like me. I saw a small one in a tank that was supposed to be several years old, so I thought it would be OK in my 65 Gallon tank.. Mine grew faster. I too don't plan on getting any other fish until I have a bigger tank. You can't tell it from full tank shots of my tank, but he has...

Day 17 Yellow tangs are pretty common, and one of my 2 must have fishes. Here are a few close ups of its face.

Day 16 is for pipe organ corals. The are in the 8 tentacle family often called octocorals. Most of these are soft corals. Pipe organ corals are similar to clove or star polyps,but this one forms a calcium carbonate skeleton in the form of tubes with lateral bracing. In this first picture you can...

Day 15. Everyone who owns LPS or SPS corals probably sees florescence when the actinic lights are on. They especially show up a night under my LED moonlight settings. I do have a few flashlights to view the tank with at night. One is red and the other UV. The red light is supposed to allow you...

Day 14. Many people have clownfish. Mine don't bother anything. One of the best things about my clownfish is that they are always out in the open. At night time, my clownfish swim vertically in a tank corner.

The t-shirts were ordered. Delivery is 2-1/2 weeks, so they won't be ready for next meeting. Shirts with STAFF on back and the LOGO on upper left would be $9 each for an order of 30 or $11 for an order of 12. An additional $2 for each XXL shirt. Probably also 2-1/2 weeks for delivery.

Day 13 Hitchhikers are one of the things I love about this hobby, even though not all are good for the tank and some will be pests; I want as close to a sustainable reef ecosystem as I can get. Here are two. The first looks like a spiderweb underwater after I stir my sand. It does appear to...

Day 12 Here is a top down photo from inside the tank looking at some zoanthids. The camera is a waterproof camera.

I have a 150 and a 200 watt heater on my 65 gallon (a little less than 1/2 the volume of your tank). One is set a few degrees cooler than the other. If one dies, the other can keep the tank at a reasonable temperature. If one locks in the on position, it is not so powerful that it will super...

Day 11. The Royal Gramma was the last fish to go in the tank. As one of the milder basslets, I was hoping it would get along with my Orchid Dottyback, one of the milder dottybacks. To help, I positioned mirrors on 2 sides of the tank to keep the dottyback occupied. It worked pretty well. First...

I hadn't seen the face markings in photos of this fish, so I was pleasantly surprised it developed them like many other wrasses.

Day 10. It is time to show some fish. It took me a while to realize you can't get great fish photos unless you have a short shutter speed; most move too fast. And to get the entire fish or portion you want in focus, you need a small aperture. Neither work well with low light and external...

Day 9. Mushrooms move? In this first picture, this mushroom moved to a shadier location and left 2 tiny mushrooms behind. Yesterday there was 1 left, and this morning none of the tiny mushrooms were left. I assure they released to settle elsewhere. I found this mushroom upside down on the...

Here is my final batch of pictures.

Here are a few pictures of the tanks in case you have not been to Jenkinson's. This batch is from the first coral tank that uses live rock.

It was a good event to bring children, although the real young one may not have got as much out of it. Unfortunately, I posted before importing the full images above and didn't see how to change that.

Here are a few more pictures from upstairs. Those are some huge protein skimmers. The fluidized bed filters were pretty nice as well. Note that nutrient export is largely accomplished by 30% seawater water changes. They bring is seawater into holding tanks in the basement and then transfer it...

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...

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