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Monday, March 31, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
AMANO
"The Zen approach to aquascaping is difficult to put into words. Part of the aim is to turn the aquarium not into a mere reproduction of some habitat, but to assemble a composition that evokes emotion from the viewer. It is a living art, and the aquarium is the canvas. To extend the artistic analogy a bit further, a naturalistic biotope aquarium is realistic, the Nature Aquarium impressionistic."
- Takashi Amano
LOADSHEDDING ???
I noticed that most of my corals did not look very happy yesterday . This was after a 2 - 3 hour power outage due to the inability of Eskom to provide customer service.
There seems to be bleaching on some of the staghorns and I am not 100 % sure what the cause of this could be. I checked alkalinity this morning and it sat pretty low at 6.5 dkh . I am constructing my own monster Calcium reactor to place on-line, I am hoping to have it ready by this weekend.
I will use manual additions to bring things back in line again. I am not sure what the current calcium and magnesium levels are .
There seems to be bleaching on some of the staghorns and I am not 100 % sure what the cause of this could be. I checked alkalinity this morning and it sat pretty low at 6.5 dkh . I am constructing my own monster Calcium reactor to place on-line, I am hoping to have it ready by this weekend.
I will use manual additions to bring things back in line again. I am not sure what the current calcium and magnesium levels are .
AQUASTICK ..........
I have decided to use a product called Aquastick made by Two Little Fishies to mount some of my SPS frags.
I have never used it before but bought it this time because my LFS did not have Deltec epoxy in stock.
The epoxy is only mildly adhesive but found it relatively easy to work with. I do like the fact that it gives off little residue and sets in 20 minutes.
I have found that without proper support frags tend to shift before the deltec epoxy has time to set. So this is an improvement as far as the deltec stuff is concerned.
A serious downside is the fact that even with very little visible residue my skimmer still went absolutely nuts.
I have never used it before but bought it this time because my LFS did not have Deltec epoxy in stock.
The epoxy is only mildly adhesive but found it relatively easy to work with. I do like the fact that it gives off little residue and sets in 20 minutes.
I have found that without proper support frags tend to shift before the deltec epoxy has time to set. So this is an improvement as far as the deltec stuff is concerned.
A serious downside is the fact that even with very little visible residue my skimmer still went absolutely nuts.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
LOAD SHEDDING HITS US AGAIN !!!!
It was scheduled for 8 AM but due to pressure on the network ended up happening at about 7. Grrrrrr.........
I wanted to go home and check on the tank , but just have'nt been able to get away from work.
I realy hope everything is ok and happy , expect power to be off for 2 to 3 hrs.
This tree kinda sums up how I feel.
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