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Hey everyone. I thought I would share my current build here now that I am back in Dallas permanently (very excited to be back). The tank is a 20g rimless built by glasscages a couple of years ago. I drilled two holes for drain lines in the tank--a main drain and an emergency drain. For flow I...

Well it has been a long time since I have been around these parts. Some of you may remember my old tank that lurked these pages: alt=""> I broke down that tank in late 2006 and tried to stay away from the hobby; between undergrad and the start of law school, it wasn't too hard. However, after...

I am fortunate enough to have a wonderful shop with many tools. I am an avid DIY type person. I know there are more people out there like me, but I know not everyone has the tools or the place to do it. So I would like to open my shop to people who need a place to work and need tools. I am even...

I am trying to decide if I should market a product I have been designing. It is essentially the same as a Sea Swirl, only it rotates a powerhead instead of your return. With the advances in pumps by Tunze, Seio and now the MJmods, this can give you a pretty substantial amount of random movement...

Good bye ugly piece of star board, you will almost be missed. :cry: Sorry for the pic quality

What a fun project. The whole project cost about $30, would be twenty if the shipping on the $4 dollar motor wasnt $10. The unit makes about 3 full rotations a minute. Anyway enough flapping, here are some pics. If you have questions just ask.

I dont worry about amonia, there ahouldnt be any amonia present in an established and healthy tank. I think I checked my nitrates once too, long ago, I do weekly water changes so I am not worried about that, plus I am skimpy with my feedings. Magnesium is another one I keep a constant check...

I found this little gym at City Pets in Houston for $50. I think it should color up really nice. Anybody have a guess what it is? alt="">

A family friend has been taken advantage of by a few different people with her tank, so now I am trying to get everything straightened up. The tank is around 300g, don’t know the exact measurement but it is somewhere around 5' by 4' by 30". It is built into the house under a staircase and the...

Here are some pics I took yesterday with the new photobox. Some of the corals are still a bit stressed from redoing the rock work and them being in close confines for a couple of hours. I redid the aquascaping last weekend after the big coral sell off. I am really happy with how everything...

My pH had been sitting around 8.4 to 8.5, according to my aquacontroller, for a couple months now. I thought it was bizarre that everyone else with the BB Ca reactor combination was having problems maintaining pH levels, but I wasnt. So I grabbed my calibration fluid from my other tank last...

I keep reading all these people talking about one snail per gallon and so forth. This is way way higher than I have ever run. My 40g has 2 astreas and 6 or 7 blue legged hermits... How many are the rest of you guys keeping in your SPS tanks? Is the need for such a large clean up grew due to...

Few I took today

I use the sliming method - leave them out of the water for 10 minutes then throw them in. Takes a while for the slime to wash away so they acclimate slowly. I have never lost a coral doing this. An added benefit is that the last three minutes of acclimating, it is really easy to see any...

I went to Ryan's house last night so I had to bring the camera along. His tank is doing incredible and I am really looking forward to watching it mature. I wish we would have had a photobox, so these were taken above the water so some have a glare. Here are some of the pictures: unfortunantely...

Was over at my parents and I thought I would shoot some pics of her tank. This tank has had one water change in the last six months and other than adding top off water, it is very neglected, but somehow it still thrives. The tank is a 25g tall with a 150w 20,000k on it. DSB and sealife systems...

We always talk about how much corals change color in tanks so I wanted to show a good example of this. The coral on the left is out of NathanSE's tank. It is the mother colony of the frag on the right. Sometimes SPS blow me away in how much they really change. Even the skeletal structure has...

Here are a few pics I just snapped off. No tripod was used and they are all side shots. These were taken with a Canon Rebel 6 Mpx with a 50 Macro lens

I was looking at a picture on a vendors site and you can tell that the color is way off on one of their pictures, the eggcrate is blue. So I played in photoshop with a couple of the auto correcting features and it is markably different. I was just curious to see what you guys thoughts were on...

Just picked up a couple of corals from tranquil Scape. The picture of the colony does not do any justice to the actual colors. Anyone have a guess on what it is?