WOW! Had it been that long?!?!?!

WOW! Didn't realize it's been that long since I've posted anything out here. My biocube has been up for a little over a year now (my how time passes). Many things have changed along my learning curve of my first tank. Both of my clown gobies, so how decided to go kamakaze on me and jumped over into chamber 3 of my biocube ... I tried my best to save them, however to no avail. SAD SAD DAY! My fireshrimp also decided he didin't like the tank anymore and took a leave of absense, we'll call it.

HOWEVER, onward and upward. My tank is thriving now. I still have my skunk cleaner shimp and my diamond goby who now has a fat stomach. I've also added a pair of ocellaris clowns and a royal gramma. I think I finally have the right combo of fish as everyone has been getting along without issue for the past 4 months.

Got a bit of an aptasia problem that Joe's Juice isn't even touching, so I read about these little buggers called Berghia Nudibranch and lo and behold, that's all they eat ... APTASIA! I order a trio of young adults ... holy smallness are they tiny. I have to admit though, they seem to be doing a job already on the rock I put them on, working on setting up their colony in the crevices of the rock and while at it, chomping on the aptasia to boot. WOOHOO! Something natural to take care of that nastiness instead of using chemicals. You can't beat that at all! :)

My other big news is I have crossed over with one of my freshwater tanks ... that's right boys and girls. I'm ADDICTED! I took my 58 gallon freshwater tank down and have offiicially converted it to a salty tank. Overflows dual output from the Mag 12 pump, 20 gallon long sump with protein skimmer for 100 gallon tank and 100 watt heater. Tank seems to stay around 80 degrees during the day and dump to 77.5 at night. Thinking of bumping the heater just a bit.

For this lovely new tank, I have about 13 pounds of seeded live rock, with 70 pound of argonite, and waiting on 40 pounds of dry fiji and tonga from marcorocks.com (should be here Thursday). After getting this in the tank, I'm hoping by early next week to be able to add my cleanup crew as the 4 pieces of rock in the tank are getting the nastiness of diatom and a bit of slime here and there. Oh the good life of seeing a brand new tank come together.

I'll try to get some more photos going out here ... both the old and new tanks need a little eye candy attention. Thanks for stopping by and until next update ... HAPPY REEFING!