This is my Journal where I will write about happenings and noteworthy events.
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]
A little package was waiting for me at the post office today with some very interesting new items. Looking at the items, one might conclude that I’m either a doctor or a mad scientist, which maybe wouldn’t be all that wrong? After all I consider myself a self-educated coral surgeon! These tools are mostly for [Continue reading]
We saltwater aquarists have a tendency to spend A LOT of money on our hobby, especially when it comes to the colorful and interesting livestock. But sometimes its what we don’t buy that ends up being more interesting, such as this little fellow right up there! Asterina Starfish are common in saltwater aquariums, often introduced [Continue reading]
There’s no question that coral reefs are just downright amazing to behold, and fortunate are those nature and wildlife photographers that actually get to visit the worlds reefs and bring home some absolutely amazing photos of reefscapes. Few are the home aquariums that can ever hope to compete with the sheer awesomeness of full blown coral [Continue reading]
After many years in what I can only describe as a “dormant” state, this website has finally been revived. Its been many years since I last wrote on my Journal or developed my website. Why? Because manually writing in HTML/PHP code every time you just want to tweak something, or have to manually format an [Continue reading]