Author Archives: Glen

Glen is a software engineer at a large technology company. He’s been programing computers of various sizes since 1980. Glen has had aquariums of different types for almost as long. The most recent aquarium, a marine reef, was started in summer of 2009.

New Animals

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 […]

Janitors

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 […]

Cleaning Crew

Last week I discussed the algae problem.  Well, I contacted GARF as I had mentioned, and purchased some “Reef Janitors”. The purchase went a little differently than I had expected.  I had expected a web shopping cart interface, where you chose your selections, checkout, and enter credit card info.  GARF handles things a little more […]

WordPress Themes, and Other Web Hosting Chalenges

I’m going to take a short break from the aquarium to show off how geeky I really am… A couple of weekends ago I spent a long time fixing up my WordPress theme.  One of my sons helped me find a good public theme to start with, named Bloxy.  It looks nice, and is primarily […]

Red Algae

One of the live rocks has grown a lot of red and purple algae.  This is partly expected – algae likes light just like coral does.  It must be feeling right at home with the new lighting we got a few weeks ago.  At fist I was thinking this was pink and purple Coraline algae, […]