Feeding time... sorry about the blur of fish.

A few other shots

I had visions of grandeur in getting this blog up to date and running well... my broadband connection is ridiculously slow and I can't take it anymore!!! Have to quit for the sake of my sanity.

Achilles tang

Cannot get a decent shot of this guy...

This is the Regal angel and Copperband butterfly fish, thriving and healthy.

Some of the fish

Just a shot of the fish...

Achilles Tang

I put an order in for an Achilles tang about two weeks ago. I was told by other reefers that I might wait up to six months. I got an email that he came in last Thursday, and I picked him up today. His name is Ari... after the hyper manager on Entourage... suits him fine. He is in QT for awhile... I sure hope he makes it, as most don't survive.

Flat worm disaster...

I won't post pictures of the nightmare, but I had flat worms which pretty much wiped out every acro I had. I buy all my corals from the same store and always dip in Revive... the store had infected corals, and the Revive is junk... don't ever use it and think it works.

Most of our corals are gone... won't be buying anymore for awhile...

The control room

This is where the sump, skimmer, water changes, and everything else happens. Frank outdid himself on the automated water changes, the 55g fuge, 72g sump, and 90g holding tanks. There is miles of plumbing and elbows.

April 2009

How things are going... new corals, some new fish, some fish removed.

March 2009 The canopy

Just progress. The building of the canopy, which my hubby once again hand built...

February 2009

The addition of metal halides, and some more livestock.

January 2009

Just progress in January. SOme corals and the building of the stone on the stand...

Addition of more live rock and some LPS

Fast forwarding to the addition of new liverock that was from a well established tank. I thank the lord everyday for this rock... There was also the addition of the Sohal tang.

Adding new livestock

We added Gryphon my puffer to the tank, and sadly he ate the two clownfish!!!

Cycling finished adding a few fish

These were the fish from my 55g. There is a mandarine goby, purple tang, two clownfish and a damsel I wish I NEVER put into the tank.We had no choice but to put the fish into the tank, since the 55g kept crashing. The water was still cloudly form the live sand.

The cycling begins... and it's ugly

We started cycling the tank in October, and went through horrid amounts of diatoms and hair algae. It looked like we had a slew instead of a reef tank in the making.

Ready for water

Now we added water to the tank to make sure it was not leaking. It was tense watching it fill up wondering if it all would hold. We have never assembled an aquarium before, so 260g of water exploding out was horrifying.

Front pane of glass in place

We finally replaced the front pane of glass and it was scary to say the least. The glass is heavy and I was afraid we would drop it.

A little more...

Progress on the rock wall...

Now for the finishing touches on the rock wall

After all the travertine was set onto the back wall, my hubby then cut dried out live rock on his tile saw. He then masterfully siliconed the cut rock onto the travertine.

The rock wall

Prior to placing the front pane of glass on, my handy hubby used his tiling skills to create a master piece. He first used 4"x4" travertine tiles that he siliconed to the back walls and overflows.