My live rock (70lbs of Tonga Deepwater) finally came in and man does it ever stink! It is kinda a cross between a garbage dump and a really strong ocean smell. I think Carrie (my girlfriend) is about ready to kill me. She’s got a ton of candles lit to try and cover up the [...]

Well yesterday was Day #1 for my tank. I filled it up with RO/DI water and added the salt. Put in all of my powerheads and heaters and them them do their thing. The salt took a bit longer to fully dissolve than I thought it would, so I just let it sit over night [...]

Well, before I started to fill my tank with water, I had to get my sump in the stand where it will never leave unless something bad happens and I have to take my stand apart again (which I really don’t want to do with a full tank above it).
Before I placed it in the [...]

Well this is actually a few different orders, but for the sake of posting multiple times, I am putting everything into this one post.
A friend of mine was selling a few items that I picked up, most of which I will use for mixing salt water and other uses that don’t include my main display [...]

Installing my RO/DI filter (AquaSafe 100GPD) proved to be quite the challenge and took way longer than I though it was going to. I guess most of the problem came from the fact that I didn’t really understand how they worked. I have mine hooked up to the faucet in my laundry room, and I [...]

Last weekend was the first time I really got to try out all the new recording equipment I have picked up in the last few months. The band I was recording is called Sixteenth Avenue who I have know for a while and they wanted to do an acoustic tune called First Fall. I was [...]

I guess it makes sense to mention my plan for this tank and what I plan to get out of it. My goal is to have a stable, healthy mixed reef tank containing a few colorful/attractive fish, SPS, LPS, Soft Corals and a nice group of invertebrates. So here is my plan for the next [...]

After searching all the local stores (there isn’t much around here…and hardly anything good for saltwater tanks) the best deal I found was a 75 gallon All-Glass-Aquarium that I could have ordered in my choice of available colors and have a matching stand. I chose black since it goes with everything.
The dimensions of the tank [...]

I have recently decide to try my hand at reef keeping (keeping a fish tank with a coral reef in it), and have decided to document my experience through this blog. It is going to be a long time before my system is stable, so this diary will document all of the problems I am [...]