Monthly Archives: May 2008

Long time no update. Lots of pics and info to come.

May 26, 2008 – 9:59 pm

Went to the LFS today and got some more live rock and some more pre mixed salt water as I was out. LOTS of life on one of the pieces. Ill get pics soon…. Been having low ph over the last few weeks. 7.8 Been doing water changes about a gallon each week and no […]

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Water Test: 5-6-08 16:34

May 6, 2008 – 5:10 pm

Temp 79.1 Specific gravity 1.025 PH 7.8 Had to add some PH buffer today I have no clue why this droped. Possibly from the water change. Ammonia 0.50 Looks like the CUC is having an effect on the water Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0

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First death!!!

May 6, 2008 – 5:07 pm

One of the margarita snails was found MIA sunday may 4th. His shell was fliped over and all i saw was slime around it and noticed what I think is a fire worm crawling around in the shell. The other margarita snail has not really moved around all to much since I put him in […]

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First water change: 5-03-08

May 6, 2008 – 5:03 pm

Did my first 1 gallon water change. 10% of 7.5 gallons is almost 1 gallon. 7.5 gallons is the ammount of water thats in the tank give or take. So i took out 16 cups and replaced it with the saltwater I got from the LFS. SG droped to about 1.023 the next day. So […]

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First members of my clean up crew

May 6, 2008 – 4:59 pm

Since all the water testing is still show 0 and I got tons of algae growing I though it would be a good time to get a few carbs and snails in. I added 2 scarlet hermit crabs, 2 blue legged hermit crabs, 2 cerith snails, and 2 margarita snails. So far there all doing […]

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Full Tank Shot: 4-30-08 21:42

May 6, 2008 – 4:46 pm

Center Left Right

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Few more feather dusters

May 6, 2008 – 4:43 pm

Click for a high rez shot.

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Found another Spionid worm

May 6, 2008 – 4:42 pm

Click the images to get a high rez shot. He is dead center cant miss him.

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Hydor Flo Adjustment

May 6, 2008 – 4:37 pm

MY hydor flo recently keep blowing off. So I looked around the house to find some kind of tape to make it fit tighter in the hole. Here is what I came up with. Its been in there like this for a week and has not budged.

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