Trials and Tribulations of a Reef Aquarium

Echinoderms, or sea stars, in general, are such amazing creatures. They have no brain and no blood. They propel themselves slowly via water ...

I did something rather foolish. I bought a coral that looked pretty, not really knowing anything about it. It sort of resembled clove polyps...

Now that Chantal is getting better, our tank has returned to a comfortable state of homeostasis. I'm spending lots of entertaining hours...

When Chantal got sick, one recommendation was to get a cleaner wrasse. In the wild, these gracious fish set up "cleaning stations"...

I am SO relieved! I didn't think sick fish got better. She must have simply been stressed from shipping and moving to different tanks su...

I have yet to do a post on common saltwater fish illnesses (ick, marine velvet, lateral line erosion, etc.). Obviously, in lieu of recent ev...

Chantal and Phillip (royal gramma) Chantal loves the clowns! --our aquarium! I have been dying to purchase a Blue Tang (also known as a re...

We recently purchased Earl, our lawnmower blenny. We have some algae cropping up on our live rock, and he seemed like an easier way to get ...

I had been sooo careful. Carefully researching every move I made before trying it out on our aquarium. Reading, looking on-line, talking to ...

Clownfish peeking out of an anemone Floyd sleeping Travis sleeping

Our aquarium with Mrs. Roper (actually a Mr.), the clowns (Bonnie & Clyde) and Merry Maids (shrimp). Not to be outdone, Phillip, the Ro...