JamesL

Hmm.. you sure it just wasn't damaged from being caught/transported/released into your tank? Sounds like you have everything going right ... good water quality and the fish is eating. I bet it heals on it's own soon enough.

Edit (6/29/07): I am changing my submission! I like this picture better.... Sun Coral (click picture from grande size)

Yeah, out of date information would be a problem (if the magazine articles could still be found). Thus making and even stronger point to having pointers to more current information. But I don't want to detract from current web sites providing good information (like this site).

Good ideas .. and this sorta ties in with some ideas I have for this. While I was not looking for a place to host it (I already have a company to host my software business web site), I was thinking about expanding on the information to include links to web sites (ARC, nano-reef, etc) that also relate to specific "index entries". So say there is a discussion here about how to drill fish tanks. Well then a link to that discussion would be in the index under "Fish Tank Drilling" (or something like that). Thus it would drive traffic towards this site. In the grand scheme of things I would imagine this being a user driven web site, where people could submit pointers to such things. But the more I type this out, almost sounds like a wikipedia site Which just begs the question would this be a lot of duplication of material already on the web. Take all of this with a grain of salt .... just ideas I have rumbling around in my head. This could amount to a bunch of time to do that I might not have Agreed. And that is the big catch there. I used to own all those issues I had index... but I have since gotten rid of them. AFM used to have some of their articles on-line, but I can't find them now (in the brief search I did) since that have changed names/web site to Aquarium Fish International. I think the lack of people being able get the magazine also prompted me to think on what other resources could be "indexed".

Heh .. I actually never thought about that place ... I drive by it every day one the way home from work! Will have to check them out ...

(This was also posted on nano-reef ... just wanted to catch the opinions of people here that might not be on the other forum) Years back, I ran a web site called the Aquarium Fish Magazine Index which provided an index of all the articles in said magazine spanning it's publishing history (1988-2001 at the time). People would use the index to find past articles on particular subjects (like Angelfish or what-not). I even had the publishers of the magazine semi-supporting me by giving me free subscriptions to give away for anniversaries and such. (Now I think that magazine has been renamed to Aquarium Fish International, but that is besides the point.) I took down the web site a few years back when I was totally out of the freshwater/saltwater/pond hobbies. Well I am back into the hobbies again, and am posting to see if all that index information would be useful to anyone these days. If it is, then I have some ideas to bring it back to the world wide webs. Since the time of the index, web searches and forum's (like this one) have supplanted the need to use written references quite a lot. I personally do not refer to books much any more for information on questions I have for fish (that is why I am on this site!). But maybe there still are peoples out there that do Thanks for the feedback!

Not eligible for the cheap price either out here in Buda We actually would like to get one for really collecting rain water

Seeing measurable nitrite in an established tank is a concern. But nitrate is OK, in low levels (5 ppm is low ). Nitrate's will build in the tank naturally and are normally removed by doing your regular water changes. You can also remove nitrates via macro algae and refugiums.

The window screening over the egg crate is a good idea! I suspect they try "escaping" at night to look for food. Not to dishearten you, as I think snowflakes are at the bottom of the escapee list. When I worked at a pet store, the ribbon eels were the worst! Once he gets settled into the system and finds his cave, he should be content. I was eventually able to ween my eel off of live foods to frozen krill (would use a wooden skewer to feed the krill to him)...

Other than placing some type of screening over the intake, not sure what else can be done. If this eel is in your spiffy new open-top tank, you have bigger issues ... eels are notorious at trying to escape. I had a snowflake many many moons ago. I grew him from a scraggly worm-looking eel to a nice 1" diameter. One night he decided to slip out a hole in the back cover and venture across the dining room floor. Found him dried up halfway across the floor the next morning Good luck!

Tank looks fabo! Always good to see tanks post-troubles

Awesome looking tank! I got a cheap tripod off of eBay that works pretty well. Though it is a bit light, so I have to be careful with it when my 70-300mm zoom lens is on the camera.

Phew .. avoided a coral war this weekend. While walking by the tank I noticed my Galaxia coral had a sweeper tentacle touching one of my orange ricordias! So I put the Galaxia coral to the back right of the tank where it can grow for quite a long time and not bother anything. In it's place, I moved my CPR tongue coral up to the front left. This I got from SeaCrop and it has continues to heal and grow very nicely. I added two white porcelain crabs this weekend. They are not too adventurous, as they have both pretty much stayed around the leather coral where I first put them in at. Been playing around with the new zoom lens some more, and here are a few new pictures (click on any for a larger view). I can not wait for the ARC meeting ... I am in serious need of some close-up shooting tips. The two new residents. Finally a good shot of my yellow watchman goby. He likes to sit between those two ricordias. The two frogspawn. Best close-up picture I could get of one of the new porcelain crabs. Green Zoanthids. Fire and Ice Zoanthids. Latest full tank shot.

Nope, the links are broken. Great pictures BTW (when I could see them ).

Those are cool looking! I am sure they love all the room to swim around. So do you have plans for other fish to stock? With the length of that tank, I would think a school of something (like those PJ Cardinals) would look nice. -James

Here is my entry. My gold striped maroon clownfish was my favorite, as it was the first fish I purchased once getting back into the saltwater hobby last year. Here is a picture of him playing peek-a-boo. Click for large picture.

I got my new zoom (70mm-300mm) lens today! Man, oh, man is taking close up pictures a lot harder. Especially outside where a tripod is not practical. Out of over 350+ pictures, only a handful came out in focus, not blurry, and decent. I guess I gave a lot of practice and learning to do (The upcoming meeting about tank photography could not have come at a better time! B) ) Here are a two from the fish tank that came out good (click on them for larger pictures): Clove Polyps Frogspawn Edit: Adding a picture of the sun coral now that the tank lights have been off for a while.

That is a cool video!!

Ok, why has everyone been holding out this big secret on how easy refractometers are?!?!? (OK, not really, I just had to wait till I broke my swing arm hydrometer) I got one from Marine Depot, and man do I love it!! I am impressed that I still can mix 1.025 water in one try B) Other than that, tank is doing great. My clove polyps are growing and starting to spread onto a bigger piece of live rock. I am watching one candy cane that is not looking so hot, but that might be because it is splitting. I am looking forward to getting my zoom lens later this week!

Thanks for the info. I just ordered a a 70-300mm lens for my Canon ... can't wait for it to come!

I agree, that looks really awesome! What type of web came are you using? It is nice and small ... might have to look into adding one down the road

Thanks!

Count me in. Will be nice to meet some Austin-area reef peoples! -James

Fantastic pictures!! What lens/camera are you using? I am starting to look for a macro lens for my Canon Digital SLR.

Just checking to see if anyone local has any blueberry gorgonia frags to sell. I had purchased on last year, but the postal office lost it for a few days and it did not survive. So if I try it again, I am going to go local. Just checking availability, as I might on the prowl to add something to the tank this upcoming weekend (though I first need to figure out if I have room for more corals ).