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Hatching brine shrimp is quite easy, inexpensive, and beneficial as a food source especially if you are offering up 24-hour old nauptili.  These would be baby brine shrimp with

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Hatching Brine Shrimp easily
melev | 22 March
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The new frag system has captured my attention recently. Watching the clean up crew decimate the algae in one day flat was impressive, and the corals pop against the stark

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Macros - some frags
melev | 05 March
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After 21 days, the tank finally measured 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite and 5 ppm nitrate.  Good enough for me, and the Red Spot Glass Cardinalfish.  I filmed their introduction for an

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The cycle is over; fish added; new video
melev | 07 February
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20,000g Reef
melev | 03 February
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After about a year of saying I needed to do this, it's finally operational. The stand, tank, sump, ATO reservoir, doser container are all built (by me). Plumbing was

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The new frag tank is running!
melev | 10 January
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Three pictures from today of what my reef looked like. No reef-related gifts this year for me, other than some scuba-related ornaments for the tree.

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Christmas time
melev | 26 December
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11/28/15 Performed water tests at 1 a.m. specifically because I spotted some STN in my tank all of a sudden.

Temperature late at night read 

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Water tests and what they mean to me
melev | 29 November
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I noticed three areas in reef today with white skeleton showing, which seemingly came out of the blue. Not sure why so I did a full set of tests to see what may have changed.

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STN event spotted
melev | 28 November
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I've been talking about a new frag tank system all year. It's November and I'm finally getting it done. The frag tank was made a month ago, but I needed a stand. I'd considered

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Frag Tank Stand - completed
melev | 23 November
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