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| this time. All in all, I think we’ve made it a little simpler to navigate despite its girth but, as always, I’m eager to hear your thoughts. And so, in keeping with the interest of brevity [“Too Late”---Webguy], here from where we left off (!), is the: |
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| If I really wanted to make this quick, I could sum up the State Of The Tank during this past half year in two words: "Manic Depressive". This may also sum up the state of the Tank Owner as well for it was during this period that I was both as high and as low as I’d ever been concerning the tank’s welfare. A lot has happened so, in keeping with my new ‘cut to the chase’ policy, I’ve decided to review things on month by month basis. Helps keep focus. |
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 This
was one of the 'high' months.
I did lose a couple
of newer 'sps' specimens
and was still a little bummed
out over having to frag my huge
Acro #19
but all in all, things were looking
very good and,
more importantly, very stable.
I was putting a great deal
of my attention towards boosting
my fish population
during this time and acquired a
Crosshatch Triggerfish
from The Marine Center. Other than
this, the tank
ran uneventfully throughout the
month, a refreshing
change from the trials and tribulations
of last summer.
In fact, I might even have taken
the time to sit back and enjoy the thing once or twice but |
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| as no pictures of this exist, I cannot be certain. It seems like a very long time ago…of course, then again, it was. |
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Another ‘high’ month as I recall. The only
real changes were the addition of a school of small
Bartletts Anthias (see Fish section) Go! and the switching
out of three 250W 10K metal halides for three 400W
20K radiums (see Lighting section) Go!
It was also during this month that one of the administrators for the online
bulletin board, The Reef Tank, contacted me and asked
if I might submit a few of my images for inclusion in a
calendar they were designing. Not long after, I was
notified by Reefs. org that my tank had been selected as
a Featured Tank of the Month in their Advanced
Aquarist online magazine! So needless to say, Nov. ’03
was a very good month as far as the old reefkeepin’ ego
was concerned. Negatives? None! In fact, it was
during this time that I probably felt better about the tank
than I had in a year. Of course, I really can’t remember
if I was foolish enough to have actually uttered those
words aloud (Reefers Commandment #1: Thou Shalt
Not Brag, Even To Thyself) but verily, I must’ve annoyed some salt water deity somehow because
December
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