The thing about this hobby is that it is always remains a learning experience, be it 1 year, 5 or even 10 and beyond. No matter how far you have come, you still make mistakes, re-evalute and learn. And sometimes even decisions made years ago can come back and bite you in the proverbial butt. My [Continue reading]
I realize I haven’t updated this website since September last year, so I figured I’d bring visitors up to speed as to what’s going on here. First of all I had a hellish month after my last post, when my charming webhost that I’ve been with for many years now decided to shut down my [Continue reading]
Some who come by here may wonder a bit about the lack of activity on my website in the last few months, and the reason for that is simple. My webhost is terrible and I’m having some serious issues with both performance of the website and the database. So until either my Webhost gets its [Continue reading]
A nice warm summer is that time of year most people dream about here in the northern hemisphere, but for us aquarists it can be a curse. Temperatures skyrocket, sometimes well into the 90’s and this can make life very difficult for us marine aquarists, as many of the animals we keep are very sensitive [Continue reading]
Corals are amazing wonders of nature. They seem like such simple creatures, spineless and without brains, yet they are incredibly complex and highly resilient with some species being able to regrow an entire colony from but a single cell. And once in a while one does need a reminder of just how resilient they really [Continue reading]
Things don’t always turn out the way we plan and more often than we would like, misfortune seems to befall us. But sometimes adversity can be channeled into something positive. I’m very proud of my little Mandarin Dragonet’s 10 gallon tank, which I have successfully kept her in for an entire year. Not only is [Continue reading]
One of the biggest thrills and joy of this hobby is the unexpected. I purchased a small frogspawn head(Euphyllia Paradivisa) at a fragswap this spring, and under my care it has been doing really well. Its growing and heads are splitting repeatedly, and what was once a branch with “five” polyps has become “eight”, and [Continue reading]
Normally, I just dump the corals in and leave them to their own devices, taking pictures of them or the tank every now and then. But I thought it might actually be fun and intersting to carefully document the growth and development of the coral over a preriod of at least a year. So I [Continue reading]
Last weekend I attended a Seminar and Frag Swap hosted by the “Maritime Museum & Aquarium” of Gothenburg. It was a fascinating program to say the least, and the highlight of the program was Ehsan Dashti, Founder and Owner of TRITON Applied Reef Bioscience. He spoke at length about reef chemistry and biology and about [Continue reading]
Just in case in the unlikely event this should take off and go Viral, it Began “HERE” this is the ORIGINAL, this date, October 27th 2014!