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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Update Time

It has been a good while since I have updated the blog, so now is the time! Both the 30 gallon aquarium and the 80 gallon aquarium are doing just great! We have added some corals and some new fish! Also, today, we have received a live rotifer culture to start raising rotifers for out corals and eventually baby clown fry once we get some.
So here are the pixs
Frogs Spawn

Hammer Coral


Leather Toadstool

Kenya Tree

30 Gallon full tank shot


80 Gallon full tank shot

Picasso Clownfish Pair

Silver and Black Mollies (brackish water fish) acclimated to saltwater

A pair of Firefish Gobies

LIVE ROTIFER CULTURE



Friday, May 28, 2010

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Update 5/11/2010

So here we are again..... Upgrading our system... we found a deal on craigslist that was to good to be true, so we jumped on it. We are now the owners of a 225 gallon aquarium. This will be the final time we upgrade the aquarium in this house because we just do not have the room to go any bigger. The new tank is 6ft long, 2ft wide, and 30in tall.... Goliath Maximus  that will be turning into a beautiful reef over the next couple of months.


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Just for added fun, here are some more pixs of the stuff in the 80g we have running right now. We added a Toadstool coral, but it is not out all the way yet, but here are pixs anyway!!!!! We LOVE pixs!!!



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Green Star Polyps


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Zoanthids



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Looking from the top of the tank down

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Condy Anemone Growth

And about a month later....

WOW

Monday, April 26, 2010

Look how far we have come



THEN

NOW

Okay..... So it's been a while

Okay It has been a couple weeks since the last update on our salt water reef aquarium. We have added a ton of new additions to the aquarium. Several new fish and invertebrate. So here they are!!!
 Bonnie & Clyde the
Tank Raised Black Ocellaris Clown Fish

Anchor the
Condy Anemone 

Thin Legged Hermit Crabs

Jacques the
Skunk Cleaner Shrimp

Horton the
Florida Fighting Conch

and lets not forget....
DORY!
The Blue Regal Tang

CORALS
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In addition to all the livestock added there are also various snails roaming around munching on whatever algae they can find. There is also some base rock that has been added for us to begin the stacking process to make the fish feel more secure. Here are some full tank shots.



Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Update on Water Quality

Salinity: 1.024
Temperature: 78 degrees
Alkalinity: 8dkh
Calcium: 400ppm
PH: 8.2
Phosphate: 0ppm
Ammonia: 0ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: between 1 and 2 ppm
Water: Crystal clear