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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Going from 14k to 20k, Elite Frogspawns
So I found some cool dudes on craigslist that wanted to do some trades. I traded some nice pink pulsing Xenia for a huge two-head purple-tipped green frogspawn, and a 4-headed green candy-cane and a few mushroom frags. The guy I met had a 20k 250w DE halide that he wasn’t going to ever use. [...]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
MySQL trickery
A few weeks ago I came across a problem with MySQL and Mediawiki that nobody on the internet seemed to be able to solve. I was able to figure it out and posted a little article on what I did. I have a number of other unique tricks up my sleeve i’ll post when I [...]
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Overgrowth
Over time, my little 3 gallon pico tank became overgrown. The Ritola Green was seriously taking up ALL of the space in the tank. I trimmed back about half of the growth in the tank and filled up 2 dixie cups worth of clippings. Revealing the substrate revealed an interesting suprise, there was film of [...]
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Measuring Calcium
So, for the first time ever with my reef tank, I have measured some of the chemical parameters. I was at a local LFS and they had a Reef testing kits by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals that tests the following:
Calcium
Phosphates
Nitrite
KH
So I tested each of them and ended up with the following paramaters:
Calcium: 400ppm
dKH: 9
Phosphates: 0
Nitrites: 0
I wanted [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in 55 Gallon Mixed Reef, My Fish Tanks by mjoyce
Monday, January 21st, 2008
South Beach Miami
So today I arrived in South Beach Miami. I am here for a trade show for work. I have never been to Florida before, but so far it is very neat. Our hotel is RIGHT on south-beach, like literally the back of the hotel borders sand. We arrived around 4pm local time and posed around [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Journal by mjoyce
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
January Growth Progress on Planted Tanks
So I wanted to post some quick shots of the progress on my Planted tanks over the past 2 months:
3 Gallon Pico
From a few months ago
January 19th 2008
12 Gallon Nano
A few months ago
January 19th 2008
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
The Hidden Mickeys
Today I went with my Wife and a coworker to Disneyland. I am no stranger to Disneyland, about a year and a half ago my Wife and I got yearly passes, and we renewed them again this year. Today we went, and we largely just walked around, looking at the people, and some of [...]
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
New items, and rearangements
So today I had a plan. A plan to make my tank look a bit more awesome than it did yesterday. I have several main problems with my tank.
Lack of color (other than the PINK of the Xenia and Bubble)
Lack of fish population
I lack check valves in my return lines, which could lead to a [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in 55 Gallon Mixed Reef, My Fish Tanks by mjoyce
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
The Bad Blennie
My Bicolor Blennie has been picking at my new clam. He was banished to the fuge. I chased him into a piece of live rock an d put it into the fuge until he swam out. I additionally banished 4 of the aggressive Snails - I saw one of them crawling on the clam.
With all [...]
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
The addition of SPS and Clams
So with my new metal halide confidence I went to the LFS today on a mission, and ended up with the following:
5″ purple and blue Crocea Clam. This was the smallest, and best looking of the 4 Crocea clams that my LFS had. They have had them in stock for like 6 months and came [...]