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Various Zoanthids and a green tipped toadstool leather from my 125 gallon reef. Welcome to Tim's Reef Web Site 01-01-06 The 55 gallon tank has been retired. I sold the livestock and the tank. It was getting too hard to maintain both tanks. The lights on the 125 have been upgraded to a Coralife 72 Inch Aqualight Pro, 3x150W HQI MH Lamp + 4x96W PC + 4x1W Lunar LED. 04-15-05 After moving the tank to install new carpet, I lost all but a handful of my SPS corals and all of my torch corals. I wasn't able to determine exactly why the corals died, but the good news is things have improved and seem stable. In an effort to make the hobby self sustaining, I've started selling frags of unusual corals. Thus far, I've been fairly successful at making just enough money to pay for all the needed supplies and to buy a few new animals for the tank. 10-05-04 My wife and recently put down new hardwood flooring in the room with the 55 gallon reef, and carpet in the room with the 125. Obviously, the new flooring required moving the tanks. Neither tank suffered any major casualties, but I did lose a few nice SPS corals and both tanks now look a little flustered. 04-28-04 If you've ever tried to move a fish tank of any size, you'll appreciate the work involved with moving a 55 gallon reef full of live rock. The 55 is now in the kitchen, where it will most likely stay. 02-21-04 Both tanks are doing very well. I added a CPR Refugium with a Aqualight PC Hood to the tank and several powerheads. With the exception of having poor quality bulbs, the tanks is doing better than ever. Hopefully the bulbs will be replaced soon. 01-06-04 I finally got around to adding a literature page to my site. Check it out for a list of my favorite reef keeping books. Also, I added some information to the LFS review page. For you technically inclined people, the web server will soon be upgraded to Windows Server 2003. The site will be down for a few days. 11-22-03 I've learned a lot about reef keeping since I last updated the site. Specifically, I've learned a lot about the chemistry of reef tanks and what -not- to do. At the moment, both tanks are currently doing pretty well. With the exception of the addition of a harlequin shrimp and a long tentacle anemone, the 55 hasn't changed much. The 125 has changed a lot. Feel free to take a look. The web server is now on a UPS and has been up with no issues for several months. 04-06-03 Due to computer hardware failure, my web site has been down for a few weeks. However, I now have a dedicated server hosting the site, so hopefully it'll be up more consistently. If you try to access the site and its down, chances are we had a short power outage and the server didn't reboot. I hope to remedy the situation soon with a UPS. Anyway, the 125 gallon tank has changed drastically in the last month. Check out the new pictures. I should have new pictures of the 55 gallon up soon. 03-03-03 Both tanks have several new critters. Check out the new links. The carpet anemone above is my first attempt at keeping a pacific anemone in several months. He seems to be doing well and has decided on a nice spot high on a rock in the far right of the tank. While in search of a place to sit, he crawled all over the tank often hiding in hard to see places. I discovered how healthy he was by accidentally resting my arm on him while cleaning the glass. It felt like being cut or shocked, and burned badly for the next 24 hours. Click here to see the nasty arm sting picture. Note that the picture was taken a full week after being stung. The good news is that a strong sting is indicative of good health in anemones. 02-03-03 My first aquarium, which I started in January of 2002, was a basic 55 gallon salt water setup purchased to keep me sane during an extended eight week work binge. The tank was originally intended to be a "Fish Only" tank, containing nothing but marine fish. However, within a few months, I had thoroughly immersed myself in the hobby and decided to try keeping a yellow Sebae anemone and some scarlet cleaner shrimp. It wasn't long before I decided to add a few small pieces of live rock. I currently maintain two saltwater aquariums. The aquarium pictured above is from my 125 gallon tank which will eventually be a complete reef system. One of my goals for the system is to stock the tank with primarily tank-raised or "traded" specimens. The vast majority of the animals and rock in the tank above were purchased from other reef keepers who were disassembling tanks or borrowed from my smaller tank. The tank was given to my by my friend Carl. Thanks Carl! |
