I have been buried in school and work and haven’t updated the blog or photos. I am at least slipping in an updated saltwater reef tank pic (which it is really fun to go through the gallery pic by pic and see how it grew from just a bunch of live rock and salt, to [...]
I finally took an updated picture of our 55 gallon saltwater reef tank. It is interesting to look back and see that our saltwater tank has come from this:
To this:
To view a larger version of the 55 gallon saltwater tank click here. You can scroll through and look at everything close up.
Brady brought Mike two [...]
Ok, I FINALLY got the coralline under control with a little help from a razor that has a handle (yes, sadly I did not know such things existed. Lucky for me I have friends that are SMRT (Simpsons reference). Unfortunately they run about $40, but making it so that we could see that we actually [...]
Yes, the smaller the tank, the harder it is to care for and keep alive. We bought our friend a 5.5 gallon saltwater tank this spring and it is alive and doing well.
The main inhabitant is an emerald crab that liked to knock over coral in our tank, Tanner took him home and put him [...]
Due to doggy circumstances. I will live vicariously through my friends (we have stalled growing our tank for the time being). They have been shopping around for a used saltwater set up for some time now, and they found the ultimate 125 gallon set up with everything (lights, protein skimmer, sump, you name it they [...]
I was informed that our anemone likes to hang out at the top of the tank due to the tank not having enough light. I learned in this process that there is a lot more to aquarium tank lighting than I had ever thought there could be.
I started the aquarium lighting section of the fishwiki. [...]
Feeding time! The most active we ever see the jawfish and the yellow watchman goby are when we feed the fish. You can get a really good look at the jawfish in this video. All of the fish that are out feeding are the royal gramma, six line wrasse, purple firefish, yellow tail damsel, clownfish, [...]
I have a larger sized image of our tank loaded on the saltwater fish photo gallery.
Click here to see the large aquarium image (you must have java enabled to view this pic). The new coral isn’t opened up in this picture of our tank. I will add a new photo in the next couple of [...]
We hadn’t seen the new watchman goby or the pearly jawfish for over a week and started to expect the worst. They are starting to poke their heads out and make permanent homes in the tank.
They are doing fine now. Brady came over and reorganized the rocks that I had made a mess of trying [...]
Brady and Mike have tried several times to catch the coral banded shrimp in our saltwater reef tank. We placed a jawfish and a new yellow watchman goby in the tank (I haven’t seen either of them come out of hiding yet… if they are just in hiding).
Shortly after we placed the jawfish in the [...]