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It's been a while since I provided a tank update. Everything is good, flow is fixed, and four new fish added: a Kleins butterfly that has munched nearly all the Aiptasia, two flameback angels and a bicolor anthias. I made a video of the tank today. There's a link at the bottom of my lab...

Matt, thanks for the enjoyable and educational seminar! I learned how to keep a moorish idol, and how to smash shrimp into broccoli. I see a new dim sum recipe in there too...

Only two of the eight Tunze pumps that I have been using since 2004 have failed. Others have run continuously without fail.

I've had Tunze 6100, 6101, 6200, 6201 pumps run without fail since about 2004. When a pump does malfunction, I send it in to Tunze USA and they fix or replace it. So far, I haven't been charged for that service. I'm running 6 Tunze stream pumps in the 210G reef tank and they do a great...

I had the chance to see this beautiful tank in person yesterday. It's quite a showpiece! Well done.

Your kids will love it...especially when they have their friends over to play. Happy Holidays to you too Santa.

20 min. Upside down and we put ginger, garlic, and green onion in the water below the steam tray to give some good flavor to the steam.

Ahem...sea spiders (Pycogonids) might not be so tasty (and they are also not really spiders!). Crabs (also not spiders) are wonderful! And Jon's recipe is killer...I made it on Sunday for lunch with fresh off the boat crab! I am a fan of steaming, not boiling, the crab as I feel that the...

I've watched a tuxedo urchin eat zoanthids...and decided they are not entirely reef safe.

Jon - sorry to hear that. The frag of this coral that you gave me is doing OK in the tank at RTC - not growing much, but looks healthy. You can have it back when you are ready. Plus, would be good excuse to visit my tank + I'll show you around the lab!

Thanks for your comments - FYI today I pulled out a couple of monti frags and checked under the microscope for nudibranchs or eggs. I saw none, nor have I seen signs of montis being eaten in months.... On the bad news side - the random gyre flow patterns that I had set up with the 6...

Here are some pics that Boun took of one side of the tank during Discovery Day, last weekend. Boun takes nice pics! Attached files

I can show the tank at RTC (Marin), so if Jon also shows his there would be 2 Marin tanks to see. We have tons of space for a BBQ. But I can't do Sept 25th as I'll be out of town. Oct 2 would work for me, but I'm booked the rest of Oct on weekends. Oct 30 is Discovery day so you can see the...

Cool crab pic! maybe someone with a cuttlefish to feed would be interested?

This is good idea - my wife mentioned the idea of using this as a way to talk about how fragile coral reefs are, and how humans can so easily disturb them in nature. I'm going to consider making an interpretive display about coral eating nudibranchs. I think that in the near future I'll...

Thanks. The tank is STILL COOL!! and some of the corals remain great looking. Others not so much...

Boun, I'll swing by if I can. As I mentioned to you, there's a bunch of stuff we have scheduled that day, but if I can get away, even for just an hour, I'll come by to help out. Might have to bring Quincey with me...would Ally mind?

I'll swing by if I can - we've got a bunch of stuff already scheduled that day, though, so don't count on me being a big help. Sorry!

Love it! I'm sending it to everyone in my lab!

Well, it's been since December since a tank update - far far too long! Not much exciting happened between December and about March. Corals kept growing and everything was looking great. In March 2011 I bought some frags from Green Marine and STUPIDLY did not QT them. Even though I didn't...