Once I felt very confident that the tank was suffering an outbreak of Ich that wasn’t going to take care of itself (come on, we’ve all read the anecdotal reports of these sorts of things going away on their own and we all want to believe it could happen), I began to research possible reef […]

Read More Adventures with Reef Safe Meds – Polyp Labs Medic

My apologies for the lengthy absence.  Ich struck the tank a couple of weeks after adding my White Tail Bristletooth Tang and Six Line Wrasse from the quarantine tank.  Despite my quarantine efforts, about two weeks after adding the new fish to the main tank, I noticed the Tang beginning to develop the always dreaded […]

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Anyone that has been in the hobby a while will say the same thing: you must quarantine your new purchases.  It’s hard to tell how prevalent quarantine tanks are.  I suspect more people say they do it than actually do.  Back in my fish-only tank days, I rarely, if ever, bothered to quarantine new fish. […]

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It’s Monday.  Long day at work?  Yeah, me too.  One of my favorite things to do when I get home from work is chill out in front of the tank for a bit with a tiki drink.  Let’s call it a mini vacation to the tropics. I grabbed my camera to share a few pics. […]

Read More Happy Reef Pics Monday

The inaugural post to this blog was going to be about breaking down and transferring the contents of my 25 year old 120 gallon glass reef aquarium and setting up its replacement: a 180 gallon reef-ready acrylic tank with custom cabinetry and a 42 inch sump (maybe a little boring, right?).  Instead, I am compelled […]

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