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I saw a guy put over $600 of tickets into the raffle box for the Neptune Apex. He told me he got the tickets for compensation for working the show. HE DIDN'T WIN!!! The raffle prizes were pretty sad, mostly, mercifully there were't a lot of them.

Took my birthday money and bought quite a lot of fish, now in "quarantine". A trio of captive raised azure damsels, very pretty and docile, a trio of captive raised Lemon damsels (Molluccensis) which maybe I shouldn't have got, have to keep an eye on the, a trio of small yellow tangs, and...

There was very little in the way of exciting new introductions, equipment-wise.

Saturday the show floor was very busy. Nothing can be as busy as NY Reefapalooza, people don't have to fly to that! What really disappointed me was the poor attendance and many of the lectures/presentations. Great stuff, big experts , talking to a sparse room. Only few people like Mr. Saltwater...

Brilliant!

Chloroquine is used to prevent malaria, so I guess it kills parasites?

I was going nuts trying to clean my the glass in my BioCube. It's curved, which makes it hard, but it was also getting calcified green algae, which was hard to remove. Neither the mag float nor the steel Kent scraper were doing it. I went to the hardware store for single-edge blades and instead...

The algae is quite revolting at this point, but I've done this enough times to know that it's just a stage we're going through. Ch-ch-ch-changes... In fact, where the snails and foxface have cleared, the rockwork is back to snow white! The foxface is already getting kind of plump, meaning I...

Added or moved my first frags into the tank, trying to reach my pre-MACNA goal. Purple torch and orange leptoseris frags I won in the meeting raffle, and a war coral frag from AO. Everything is doing fine.

Thanks Nikki! Mark Watney is fine, he's trying to grow potatoes~

Depends on how I do at the blackjack tables, LOL! I always buy something besides raffle tickets. Not sure about taking frags on a long flight. There's always a new toy to add to the Neptune Apex. It's the Lego set of reefkeeping! I do need some filter sock holding devices. Have credit cards...

Added more snails (astrreas) and some hermits, 15 or so. Water is still more cloudy than I would like. The snails and foxface are getting rid of a lot of the original algae--the bottom is black starboard, I hope I get some coralline at some point. Probably need to start adding calcium via...

Two weeks or so till MACNA! I'm only a little behind schedule. I added a half-dozen trochus snails, as a kind of tryout cleanup crew, and they are doing well. The foxface is actually clearing algae off of some of the rockwork. One thing that I'm happy about is that the starboard is already...

Water was still cloudier than I like it, so I temporarily hooked up a Coralife U/V sterilizer I've had in the box for like 15 years! The electrical connections had shrunk off the bulb inside, but I soon had it back in working order. The water is getting clearer quickly. Added my second fish, a...

I'll be there Thurs-Monday. Although the jerks scheduled it for my birthday! Looking forward to seeing my pals Todd Gardener and Ben Johnson give their talks.

Here is a pic.

Cycling seems to be complete--nitrite is at zero and nitrate is low. Plus, there's hair algae. Yay. The water is still a bit cloudy. I can throw a U/V sterilizer on there, but for now I'm just going to keep an eye on it. I got the 3-D printed float switch holder, and it broke right away. Guy is...

Looking at a guy who makes custom screen covers to make one for my setup. They are beautiful but awful expensive ($290).

I needed a new bracket or holder for my float switches in the sump, and couldn't find a damn thing for sale (I broke my homemade one). I finally found a guy who 3-D prints a bunch of aquarium accessories, including float switch racks. Very neat. www.printedreefingsolutions.com

The center section accidentally ended up looking like the derelict spaceship from ALIEN. I'm quite pleased about that.