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After moving this all over the tank, getting bit to death and breaking a few pieces off this and other corals, I realize there is no room for this acropora. I temporarilly put it on this rock but it is just about out of the water and not sitting well. When I get time I need to do a major rock...

I had to re design slightly my algae trough. The LEDs I had over it just were not bright enough so I got a strip of LEDs that are about twice as bright. When I had MH lights the trough used to get the spill light but the LEDs are more directional so I had to add supplimental light to the...

I am happy to say that in the 5 or 6 weeks since I installed this baby brine shrimp feeding station my skinny little female mandarin fattened up nicely and is now bordering on plump. The first picture is when I got her, you can see her sides pinched in, especially under her dorsal fin and she...

On that quick model only the end without the tube is glued on. The tube end is on with a rubber band so I can easily open it. That end also has 3 small pieces of acrylic glued in the end cap so it stays in the center and doesn't slip off letting the worms out.

This morning I collected about 20 worms

I kind of like bristleworms but now I just have too many of them. Whenever I move a rock I notice it is loaded with the little slimers. I recently had a small clam up on the rocks and it fell onto the gravel. The worms sucked it out in no time so now it is war. Over the years I have made...

That skinny little female mandarin at the beginning of this thread is now all filled out and bordering on a little chubby. I am hopeful that soon she will grow enough to mate with the large male who so far ignores her. I don't know why, she is cute.

I go on vacation all the time. The fish pass their time watching TV, doing crossword puzzles and changing their own water.

This month my tank is 41 years old. I don't remember when I was 41 years old.

These two fireclowns can't make up their minds. For a couple of years they were spawning, then for the next few years they fought, now they are spawning again. This has been going on for at least ten years. The larger one is about 16 or 17 years old, I am not sure how old the smaller one is...

Thats exactly what I said to my wife as soon as I heard this. My flag will be all the way up today.

This is so cool. My decorator crab found some hair algae growing right at the water's edge behind the top black rim of the tank. I didn't even notice it. He is hanging on to it and eating it like spaghetti. It is hard to tell but that top bubble coral is a reflection off the water surface so...

Any pet shop, aquarium store, online. Yes but if you sneeze near them, they will all mix with the shrimp and you will have to wait an hour to seperate them. If you are going to do this all the time, just build a seperator. Find a couple of square containers, paint one black, drill a hole in...

Malulu, they are simple to hatch, if you just add the eggs to salt water such as you throw out for water changes they will hatch. But then it is a little of a pain to seperate the egg shells. They make devices that do this and they are cheap. Luckily for us the shrimp are attracted to light. So...

It's been a little over a month since I installed this thing and I love it. My tank has 3 bluestrip pipefish, and two mandarins along with some small clown gobies and shrimp. They all hang around this thing for a few hours that it has shrimp in it. In this tank I really don't have to...

I just added another pair of bluestripes. Here is the old, larger female with a new small male. There is also another small female.

He had a good life and it ended very well. I hope I go as good as that. :)

He died at 7:00pm tonight. I just watched him take his last breath. Then I autopsed his gills to see if I could find any paracites because that is the best way to tell if you have any in your tank. He had the gills of a teenager, who never smoke. His gills were in perfect shape and I could not...

I thought I would document the life of one of my favorite fish. This gobi has been with me for I think about 12 years. When I got him he looked like the first picture. Yellow and skinny. As he grew a little I bought another one and they became inseperable. After a few months, they turned...

I just looked at the tank (behind me) and this decorator crab is swimming at the surface. No he is not dead. How cool is that? He can do that because he covered himself with bubble algae, which is filled with air. I wonder if he knows thats why he is floating. I had to push him down to grab on...