The Haddoni somehow got part of its tentacles stuck to the inside of its stomach, and soon started to melt. Unfortunately, I haven't seen the goby since I was able to get the anemone out of the tank. It's been over a week since the melt-down, so I'm declaring him lost as well ;-(...

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Took some pics of the new Carpet Anemone last night.. some came out okay, others needed some work. Still playing with the color balance, but got a few looking decent. Also thinking about getting a real SLR instead of an SLR-like digicam.. hopefully can take some pics tonight and tomorrow comparing the...

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Rearranged the rock and now it looks like this: Also, if you notice, picked up a huge Electric Green Haddoni Anemone. Ordered a teal one, but this guy showed up instead. I'll get some better pics once it opens back up tomorrow. It was about 13" across when we went to bag it up around 7:30. When...

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Picked up the newest reef inhabitant today, a male Pink and Blue Spotted Watchman Goby . Check him out!...

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Used it on quite a few pics I took today - trying to get better shots.. but also went back to some shots and corrected them as well. I basically just eyeballed the color balance and brightness/contrast and here's what I came up with.. Before After...

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Figured since I only had one pic of the Lightning Wrasse up, I would take some others today. I hadn't noticed, but it definitely has some fin damage - even saw my little fiesty trigger take a peck at him while I was taking the pics.. looks like my plan to put them both in the trigger tank isn't going...

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Stopped by Fin and Feather tonight to see what they had... still on a trek for sand sifting gobies... they had a *tiny* blue spot goby, and a rather large watchman goby whose stomach looked quite sunken in, so didn't end up with either of those. I did end up picking up some Nassarius snails to sift the...

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A few full-tank shots and some of the shark, chromis and snails.. also decided to make categories for each animal for two reasons... 1. have had and will have animals moving from tank to tank (i.e. shark, eel, etc) and 2. so if you want to see pics of just a particular animal, you can go right to them...

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Seems like he's doing okay.. of course, i acclimated him, floated him in the bag, took him out and 3 quick pictures later.. behind the rocks.. doh! Oh well, it's just his temporary home until I get the "trigger tank" setup again.. hopefully I can do that this weekend. Here's a good shot of...

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Thought I posted about this, but I guess I forgot.. a week ago Sunday, I traded my power compact setup (2 daylights and 2 actinics) for 3 double T5 strips.. they are from Coralife and each have a 10k daylight and 3k actinic.. granted, the old PC's were over 2 years old, but I seriously don't remember...

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