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I am pointing to where we found out info on the printout. It was kind of easy...all the foreigners were in First Class.

I am pointing to where we found out info on the printout. It...

Ramparts Through Archway-2.jpg

Ramparts Through Archway-2.jpg

Nathan posing in front of the Jal Mahal

Nathan posing in front of the Jal Mahal

If I recall this moment, I had been looking out the window at the people sleeping in the mud, the outdoor pit toilets, and the general state of how people live. I started to tear up at one p ...

If I recall this moment, I had been looking out the window at...

Close up of a Jaali. I was thinking that I might like my windows to be covered with these if I didn't live in such a cold climate.

Close up of a Jaali. I was thinking that I might like my windows...

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Carved Stone and Wood Hotel.jpg

Carved Stone and Wood Hotel.jpg

Crinoid Hitchhikers

Yesterday was a stay home and work on aquaDRAMA day. I replaced one of the current regulators, cleaned out a few things, tested all the pumps, installed a doser and did other general maintenance. When I was all done it was late and the lighting was turned off. I took a peak in the tank [...]

Crinoid Update – Growing & Regenerating

My crinoid dropped the tips of some of its arms. Which I read is pretty normal. I watched with curiosity to see if this trend would reverse. It has! There are new growth coming out of each of the arms that dropped tips. I have been watching this creature through my magnifying glass each day. [...]

A Special New Inhabitant – Crinoid

This week, I acclimated – over 2 hours – an incredibly creepy specimen that seems as though it shouldn’t be alive. It happens to be one of the oldest extant things that lives in the oceans. You can read all about them on wikipedia – as you can with everything. This animal has these strange [...]

aquaDRAMA 4.0

My fourth tank is currently sitting in my living room waiting to be setup. This is another leap forward in the history of aduaDRAMA.

Background: The current tank suffered a rather bad leak last week. The overflow sprang an air leak, causing the tank to overflow as the pump continued to pump water out of [...]

Dramatis Personæ

I wanted to list out in detail what is living in my tank. There are many things, some purchased, some surprises, and some just seemed to show up. I will admit that some of the hitchhikers are a guess on my part from doing research on the internet.

Potter’s Angel – JubalWest Australian Sebae AnemoneHeart [...]

aquaDRAMA Updated

I really need to post more about my fish tank. It is one of my core hobbies and I spend more time thinking about it than I do writing. There is so much to share about how I have managed to make this thing work.

The most recent change is that I gave away my [...]

aquaDRAMA Modifications & Update

I am trying to harder to make quick updates to the blog. If only I had this magical thing that took my ideas and transcribed them. In that vein here is a little update on what I have done to aquaDRAMA lately that changed me home for the better.

I bought acoustic foam and ran [...]

Water Change Mania

aquaDRAMA was suffering from a lot of algae growth as a result of overfeeding I would imagine. That always seems to be the case, how to balance the needs of the hungry fish with the closed system.

This post if an take of KISS and how much work a tank  can be.

When I returned [...]

Maintenance

My normal maintenance activities:

Water Change & Filter Cleaning Process Open two boxes of saltwater Using a funnel in the opening, top off these two boxes with pure freshwater Dissolve a teaspoon of kalk into 500 ml of pure freshwater in a glass beaker Pour half of this kalk mixture into each of the 2 [...]

Stop Motion aquaDRAMA

aquaDRAMA – The Killing Fields

7976|50I returned from my trip to LA to find aquaDRAMA in a state of craziness! Three fish are missing, I suspect this is what transpired:

The angler was occasionally stalking my goby. Well, goby is no where to be found and angler is very fat and happy! Bette, my Longfin Fairy Wrasse, is MIA. She has disappeared [...]

Global Update

So it has been a long time since I wrote regularly on this thing. I have no singular excuse, but a combination of a few. I thought it was about time to just post a general update to what has been going on in the last 4-5 months. A quick list:

I sold my first [...]

aquaDRAMA update

I have not posted on aquaDRAMA in a long time! Here are some of the things that have changes over the last couple months: Some kind of strange slime as growing on the back of the tank, and when I tried to remove it there was a serious decline in oxygen levels in the tank. This resulted [...]

Attack of The Pyramid Snails

I have 2 clams in my tank, don’t ask me to get into detailed binomial nomenclature, one is blue and one is gold. The gold one hasnt been doing so well lately and I wondered what might be causing it stress. 4 days ago I picked it up and many little white snails fell into [...]

Tamaria Starfish

Recently I added a Tamaria starfish to my tank and it seems to have suffered a bit of acclimation stress, from which it seems to be healing. It is very active often crossing the tank and back in a few minutes until it seems to find something it likes to eat. It has many orange [...]

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