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

Bonnie and Clyde have a new home

Click the Links for the video


New Home


New Home II

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

Condy Anemone Growth

And about a month later....

WOW

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

Clown Fish Video

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.

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

Bubbles the Yellow Tang

So yesterday after taking back the Three Striped Damsels we got a Yellow Tang to replace them with, along with some hermit crabs. Bubbles immediately formed a relationship to Tad, the Sailfin Tang, even though the fish store owner said they would scrummage a bit. So now you do not see one without the other now. Kinda crazy and unlikely pair.

Bubbles coming to temp

Bubbles acclimating with the hermits

Bubbles in the show tank

Bubbles Video

Bubbles and Tad

Tad and Bubbles Video

New Critters in the 80 gallon system

Alright so the 80 gallon system has been up and running for almost 2 months now. Cycling went nicely and we have had no swings in water quality for the past month or after cycling. The water is crystal clear  and my testings has resulted in perfect parameters.
So we have decided to add two new critters to the tank. A Hare(sea slug) and a Sailfin Tang. Here are some pixs of the two.

HARE

HARE TURDS!

Sailfin Tang

Sailfin Video