WaterNotes

This topic comes up a bit on various message boards and I can tell you right now its got to be the number one headache among freshwater aquarists – getting this nutrient loading thing right and ‘in balance’. If you’ve got a good balance with nutrients so that your higher order plants or macroalgae’s are [...]

Monterey Bay Aquarium: Short Pictorial
Amazing eelgrass dominated display (sorta crappy pic, sorry).

Live kelp tank, the crown jewel tank. Really hard to get nice pics of this setup to give you any scale. Its massive.

Another shot of the kelp, notice the leopard sharks.

Giant white anemones.

I loved this tank, concept was junk one might find alongside a [...]

Here’s a little catchup from the summer:

Tank as it was in June before the move.

Halodule wrightii flower, most likely male. 
Speaking of life in the lagoon, over the last four days while training/playing I have seen: southern stingray, urchins, seahorses, pipefish, alligators, green heron, blue heron, spoonbills, ibis, manatees and manatee babies, and at least three pods [...]

Its so hard to believe its been a year since I started this tank up. It has gone through so many ups and downs and tangential adventures since I first messed about with the substrate over a year ago. There were seahorses, then no seahorses, two species of Halophila flowers, rampant growth of Halodule then [...]

My experiments with carbon dioxide dosing, phosphate dosing, nitrate dosing, iron dosing (and the bioassays on a few invertebrate larvae to determine lethal concentrations) and other adventures continue. Unfortunately there isnt a whole lot to report this month!
The pygmy angel was added to the tank in the beginning of April after quarantine and she has [...]

Well dear readers I know it seems that each month I find something to get worked up and excited over – this month is no exception. At ten months the tank is steaming along and I have made major harvests of several species, including Halodule, Caulerpa and the Halymenia. I try to spread around species [...]

At nine months I must say that I’m pleased with the progress of the tank, but I had envisioned it to be a bit further along than its current state. I was actually hoping at nine months to have an artistic composition for an aquascape instead of the continual mish mash. Still, its exciting to [...]