Vacation Stress

I’m just returning from one week hiking around Utah with the family and we put some neighbors in charge of watching over the tank.   You can’t imagine my relief to return and find that the tank was just fine without me for a week and maybe slightly better off since no one was moving the corals around on a daily basis!

Full Tank

Full Tank, originally uploaded by tyrsdomain.

Here is a full-view shot of our aquarium after we added the Reef Tank Tuneup. You’ll have to forgive the reflection of our patio!

Overall, everything seems pretty smooth two days after adding the coral, snails and two pink cucumbers…

When big is not big enough…

This guy needs a blog!

A guy going by the handle Goodwin has been posting his adventures in building out a 600 gallon reef tank on the Vivid Aquarium forum. Fascinating.

Full View of the Tank

Full View of the Tank, originally uploaded by tyrsdomain.

With the exception of the disk coral which is behind the Yoyo coral, every coral and fish can be seen in this photo!

Check out the Flickr version of the photo where I’ve identified each species.

Pink Tip Frogspawn Coral

Pink Tip Frogspawn Coral, originally uploaded by tyrsdomain.

The Euphyllia divisia has grown tremendously in the past few weeks. He regularly stretches out to three or four inches during the day and retracts to only an inch or so in diameter at night.

Also of note is that I glued him to a place near the bottom of our tank and he seems to be very happy there. Until I glued him, he would become lopsided during the day and tip over.

Center View with Dottyback

Center View with Dottyback, originally uploaded by tyrsdomain.

This view shows much of the life we have in the tank… I’ll work on getting a larger photo that shows all the life!

The Idea Behind…

this blog is to track the health and progress of the marine aquarium my family purchased about one month ago…

So far we’ve not been all the good about tracking health of the system (although everything appears to be fine so far), but I plan to do a better job to ensure we don’t get problems into the future!