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The calcium reactor needed a refill badly, and the media finally arrived today. I'm using TLF's Reborn media this time. I cleaned it out and refilled it tonight and here it is

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New media
melev | 13 October
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Day 335 commemorates the 11 month period the 400g and 60g have been running.  During that time, I've watched corals grow into colonies and fish get

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Celebrating 11 months
melev | 11 October
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Spock says hi. Shot with a 105mm macro lens.

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Howdy
melev | 10 October
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From time to time, my fish seem to want the spotlight.  I was about to shoot a cerrtain coral and this gal (yes, it's a female Lyretail anthias) decided to swim into the frame

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If you get in my lens' way...
melev | 08 October
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I took a picture of a lobophytum with a macro lens, and loaded that RAW file into Lightroom 5.0 for the normal adjustments.  This picture was taken

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Lightroom edit
melev | 07 October
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This is a Collonista snail. It's a little hitchhiker, and doesn't grow to be bigger than a bb. Usually you'll see them late at night coming up the

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Tiny round snails
melev | 06 October
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When I set up the 60g Anemone Cube, I knew I'd be using a Mp40w ES Vortech pump for flow, and that I would have to keep a sponge on the intake

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Anemone-proof those pumps
melev | 06 October
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Shooting a few shots with my macro lens yesterday, I spotted an oddity on a branch of the staghorn coral and focused on that area momentarily.  It looks like a SPS polyp

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What's that little thing?
melev | 06 October
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What's a vermetid worm? It's a creature that casts a web into the water column to trap food as it blows by. Webs appear quickly as

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What's making that web in my tank?
melev | 05 October
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