HAPPY NEW YEAR!

goodbye 2009...hellllllooOOooOo 2010!  with the year's end comes an end to our mini-reef nano tank efforts.  we've decided to move onto http://mb50g.blogspot.com to document our reef keeping adventures w/ more technical lingo + higher res photos.  hope you'll join us...

toOdles!

NEW CORALS

unknown CB acro from BRA

japanese dendros from QT

CB Selago from BRA

SUPER STINKY SKIMMATE

brad is making gag noises as he's pouring it down the drain...  heh!

ADD TO CART: XMAS WRASSE + BLUE JAW TRIGGER + CHROMIS + CROCEA

our mini maxima kicked the bucket so i picked up a new rainbow crocea to fill the void. also picked up 6 chromis + a hawaiian blue jaw trigger + a hawaiian xmas wrasse. blue jaw's name is mr. soda popinsky. we named xmas wrasse clarice, after buddy the xmas elf's gf, but i like the silence of the lamb reference better. the chromis don't have names + we appear to have lost on already since i only counted 5 the last couple of days. meh!

OUR FIRST ACRO CRAB!

we ordered an sps colony (2"x3") from liveaquaria.com + it came w/ an acro crab. from what i've been reading from chuck's addiction they have a symbiotic relationship w/ the coral the host so i'm looking forward to seeing this symbiosis myself.

links:
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/coral_crabs.html

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/coral_crabs-2.html

NEW CORAL

CROSS YOUR FINGYS!

did a little mcgyver-ing. hopefully, we'll catch ourselves a little purple + orange lobster...

2009-11-30 UPDATE: i caught him! yay! found him in the trap this morning. off to the frag tank you go!

NEW MONTIS + PRE-VSV SHOTS

taking tank/coral pix is tough! i maxed out the memory card, formatted, maxed it out again, then culled all the bad shots. here are the good ones, if you can even call them "good"... bleh!

fts:

new monti's from caitlen + quinn:
(blue polyp)

(rainbow)


(superman)

(strawberry patch)

(orange digitata)

(green digitata)

(purple haze)


pre-vsv shots:

(maxima w/ cool zebra stripes)

(cyphaestra)

(hardy yellow acro colony)

(hydrophora?)

(pretty purple gorgoinian)

(hot pink chalice)

(deepwater lobo)

(super red superman)

(blue mili)

(atl pink lemonade)

(ailing fluorescent pink acro colony)

(angry algae'd firetip monti... luckily snails like algae! chomp! chomp!)

(our ailing atl bonzai that fell into the hammer!)

(ziggy stardust slowly gaining color)

(mystery ora acro that has a tinge of green under actinics)

(mystery yellow-green ora prostrata?)

(another mystery ora acro... it's polyps are out which is a good sign!)

WE'RE GIVING THE BRIGHTWELL LINE (+VSV) A WHIRL

hopefully, they'll increase the overall color + kill off the excess nitrates/algae that's plaguing our coral! more info on the VSV method: http://glassbox-design.com/2008/achieved-through-observation-and-experimentation

FULLY SUBMERSIBLE MINI HEATERS x3

now we can do bigger water changes w/out having the coral + fish going into shock from a drop in tempreture!