Well… we finally got it done. The old aquarium stand is gone, and the new stand, freshly painted, has taken its place. As you might guess, this took a little doing. I’ll walk you through the process in this post.
We purchased more live rock a few weekends ago. I fell like we’re getting close to enough. You’ll notice a big gap in the middle of the aquarium. I plan to add a table like rock to bridge the gap. You can see that I have some rocks already there, ready to support it. Chances [...]
Most algae is not that attractive, and is not very useful (unless you are a hermit crab). Green algae makes your rocks and aquarium walls look like a Chia Pet. Red slime algae looks nice, but it gets everywhere. There is, however, one type of algae that aquarinists love to see: coralline algae. The coralline [...]
I noticed something new in the aquarium yesterday. It was small, pink, had spines on it, and moved quickly. It was about a millimeter in diameter, and the part I saw was about 10 to 15 millimeters long. It lives in a tiny hole near the top of one of the live rocks. I wish [...]
Last week I discussed purchasing some “Reef Janitors”. Well, they have been hard at work, cleaning up the aquarium. I have to say, I’m very pleased. One of the live rocks has lots of hills and valleys, and it’s about half way up the aquarium. Last week green algae, and a little bit of red [...]