I've had a group of five Pajama Cardinal fish in my reef now for about 9 months, I believe. They don't move about much, but at night they seem to be on the prowl. These are nocturnal fish, not unlike Bengaii Cardinalfish (wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banggai_cardinalfish).
The biggest news of the year is that my club is hosting MACNA in 2012. A group of us attended Des Moines MACNA last weekend to promote our event, and GIRS (the Greater Iowa Reef Society) were excellent hosts. This is the video we shared.
My reef is now four months old, and everything is growing steadily.
Here's the entry that goes into more detail and has a bunch more images included:
http://www.reefaddicts.com/entry.php/1687-Day-120-My-reef-turns-four-mon...
The 400g reef has been up for 30 days. Water quality looks excellent. The fish are happy in their new home, swimming out in the open the way I hoped they would, contrary to their previous home filled with corals. I added over 20 new frags to the tank, including a couple of pieces I picked up at Next Wave last week.
Fort Worth has been buried under a lovely blanket of snow. Probably about 6 to 8" worth over the past 48 hours, but enough to cause chaos to our city because we are simply not used to getting more than 1" of snow each year. With all the beauty of it around us, power has gone out to 33,000 yesterday and as of today, 206,000! Myself included.
Seven days ago, I discovered my carpet was wet where you enter my home. Immediately I checked the angled tank and the plumbing in the closet. Everything was dry. Feeling the carpet as I backed up, I discovered that it was wet all the way back to my reef tank. I opened the left wooden column of the woodwork only to see soaked wood and my tank dripping from the upper left corner. I thought I'd try to save it.
Much to my delight, I'm happy to say that my new website got some serious love. You can read all about it here:
That didn't take long! Welcome to the new site.
The matching podcast went up today, which is available on iTunes.
Is it time to change your RO/DI filters? I date my system each time they are changed out, to help me keep track. They should be changed every six months, so I'm actually a month late in doing so. Whoops. However, the TDS reads zero, so there's no reason to worry, right?
Wrong.
Shameless plug for my new site Reef Addicts. :)
Reef Addicts has a contest and you can win a Reefkeeper Elite Net controller with all the associated components.
Reef Addicts is a brand new community-based site. For the past eight months, it has been a dream of mine, something I wanted to develop in the proper way to provide good usable content to hobbyists around the world. Different from Melev's Reef, this new site welcomes your interaction and values your input.
