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So far so good. But I am not loving how many of my corals look. They really don't like this fake seawater or maybe they miss the sponge toxins. :confused:

This morning it was 23 degrees and I walked down to the beach. The ocean is at the end of this road and it is a huge hill. I like to walk this way occasionally to start my walk because it is a big climb and my heart gets started. My tiny tomini tang doubled in size Bluestripes seem...

The tank is doing well. I just had my arms in it for an hour gluing gorgonians and leathers and "fixing" the rock which is very precarious and I am sure it will fall soon :sick: I added more rock and still have a lot left over that probably won't go in. Unfortunately I found a dead fish in the...

Good Morning. It was cold, windy and wet this morning but nice and sunny now.

Diana, the way it is now, a Whale Shark can swim between the rocks. :D I still will add some more rock for some tighter holes. Almost all fish are accounted for. I can't find the last dragon wrasse I put it. But I haven't seen him since I got him a couple of weeks ago. He may be under the...

It is getting there. Still a lot more to do. Tonight I made linguine and clams so my fish ate clams as did my urchin who doesn't know he is a vegan. :cool:

My Koran Angel is alive and well so I can take him to his new home. My tank looks good but a little bare from all the rocks I didn't put in. I will add a few of then but not to many. My reef is now a lacework of open spaces and I kind of like it. It has very open rock work which wasn't easy...

Good Morning Diana. :) I have done this 3 or 4 times in my life and it isn't a lot of fun. But I do consider it part of my hobby so whatever it entails, I try to enjoy it. Of course "enjoy" is a relative word and I also have some relatives I enjoy, some I don't. :rolleyes: So far I don't...

Come and get it. I probably have 20'lbs of rock left over. :D

I got everything back in the tank and everything looks good. The fish are hunting for food and so far I didn't lose anything. This only took me 7 hours and I have more live rock left over than I started with. Like 3 five gallon buckets. :D I have my big angel fish in a bucket and I almost lost...

I have two 40 gallon tubs and some 5 gallon buckets full of live rock and a bunch I had to bleach. I also have my diatom filter filled with powder because I am not removing the gravel and it will be full of detritus and I don't want to remove all of it. The first thing I will do is partially...

Tomorrow is the day I remove all the fish, dump out the water and re fill the tank and re aquascape. I have to go and get ashes first as it is Ash Wednesday and that is my wife's Idea. If I don't take her she will go by herself and I don't need her mad at me on a very busy day when my tanks life...

This is my biggest rock that I built from smaller rocks cemented together.

I am not sure my fish will survive through all this as it is a big change to go from real water that is very old to brand new ASW but we will see. If the tank crashes, and there is a real possibility of that, I will still consider it a success. Of course the fish may not see it exactly like...

I just found this "hunting" story on another site from 2 years ago. Once on an LZ a deer walked out of a clearing about 100 yards away. We normally ate C Rations and since we had a lot of Red Necks with us some of them decided to shoot the thing and one of then would cook it. About a dozen of...

I didn't realize I had so many fish and I even found this guy who I haven't seen since the day I put him in. I thought he croaked or jumped out someplace but he is fine and even colored up more. After I put the rocks back in, I am sure I will never see him again. :confused: I couldn't...

I have almost all the rocks out of my tank with just a few left to make the fish at home...Kind of although they are getting the horrors.. I also mixed about 110 gallons of ASW. Most of my live rock is still live in vats of NSW so I won't lose the life on those. The biggest piece I couldn't...

You could always build that shed, or for that matter, your house on wheels. That way it is portable and they can't tax you. :D

No one is crazy about paying taxes and I will also have to pay this year. I have no mortgage, no kids in school and no guardian angel that works for the IRS. What I did in my last house to lessen my taxes was how I built my home. They charge you real estate taxes for anything "permanent" you...

So far I collected from my RO/DI almost 100 gallons of ASW. I got to say, collecting real water is so much easier. To do that I get in my Jeep and back up to an ocean, In my case, the Atlantic. I sit in my car and enjoy the sounds of the seagulls as I watch the fish jump. I stroll to the back...