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Recently I've had a lot of brownish stuff covering the sand, and to an extent the rocks too. At first I thought it was diatoms, but after reading more, dinoflagellates sound more likely. I have a cheap USB microscope that I use for electronics so I decided to put a sample of the sand under it to...

Today I was looking at my cramped aquarium closet and realized that I really have no need for a large top-off reservoir. The old reservoir was a 3 gallon bucket and just took up too much space, so out it went! I decided to make a new one that's much, much smaller. In fact, it's smaller than a...

I designed and sell a modular DIY electronics platform called Modulo. Recently I built a new aquarium controller using it, and just today I finished a write-up about that project. Please take a look if you're interested. http://www.modulo.co/projects/modulo-aquarium-controller I swear I'm not...

I've had an engineer goby for years now. He's always stayed burrowed under rocks, just peeking his head out to grab food. However, I moved the rockwork around a couple days ago and since then he hasn't found a burrow again. He's now spending all of his time either out on the sandbed or even...

Hi everyone! It's been a long time since I was involved in the club. This last year was especially crazy and busy for me. I'm finally finding a little time to spend on my tank again though so I thought I'd check in and say hi. I had a tank crash about 6-8 months ago (when I was super busy and...

Damn. I just had two fish die within the last 24 hours. The first was a diamond goby that I noticed dead on the sand yesterday evening. It had been a little skinny lately so I thought possibly it wasn't getting enough food and I just hadn't noticed the signs of starvation. A few hours later I...

My girlfriend and I recently spent a week in Maui. I cut together some of the highlights from our dives, and thought you guys might like to see: I shot this with a GoPro Hero3 using backscatter flip3.1 red filters. I mounted the gopro on the end of a pole, which really helped with those eel...

Hey guys. I thought I'd share a project I've been working on. This is going to be super nerdy. Consider yourself warned. :) For a long time now I've thought it would be fun to build my own aquarium controller. I'm pretty sure I can get the software end working, and I have some experience with...

I'm wondering what everyone's experience with biopellets is? Have they been effective at nitrate reduction for you?

I ran out of frozen mysis yesterday and the place I normally get it, Albany Aquarium, isn't open again until Friday. Does anyone know somewhere else in the Richmond/El Cerrito/Albany/Berkeley area that carries it?

Hi everyone. I haven't posted here much for a while, but recently I've been working on a new tank build and wanted to share my project with you all. Several years ago I bought the old system from a coworker who had gotten out of the hobby. It was about 60 gallons and came with an integrated...

I have a coat closet right behind my aquarium, which is awesome because I can put all sorts of gear in there. Up until recently, however, it's been an disaster waiting to happen. I had a rusty DJ power strip clamped to an old board, with a tank right above it. Lighting was with a crappy...

I was just sitting here enjoying a nice bowl of fruity pebbles, when it dawned on me: this is flake food for humans. Your thoughts?

I had another heater bite the dust. What do you guys like these days for heaters. Any that have a particularly good reliability record?

Who's your favorite glass aquarium manufacturer? I'm thinking about replacing my beat up old current tank and stand with shiny new ones. It would need to be about 36"w and 18" deep. Suggestions?

Does anyone have one that I can borrow?

Well, I screwed up. I accidentally deleted the entire "Community Discussion" forum group. (which includes these forums: Events and Announcements, Welcome, Resources, Web Site, and Eutrophic Zone). I meant to delete a test forum that I had created but I was doing multiple things at once and not...

Our hosting company has to take our server down briefly this morning for an emergency security update to the virtual host container's kernel. It shouldn't be down for long. This is unrelated to the work I did yesterday.

This morning I upgraded our website's core software, drupal, and a dozen or so of its modules with new versions that contain bug fixes and security patches. I hoped that it would also fix a crash that occurs when the search indexer tries to index certain threads. Unfortunately, it didn't fix...

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