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Water Change Mania

Nathan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:57:54 +0000

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 from India [...]

Maintenance

Nathan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:12:58 +0000

My normal maintenance activities:

change about 5 gallons of salt water every 5 days, this is done by keeping the main pump running, siphoning out the water and pouring back in pH, temp and salinity adjusted replacement water. “Top off” water is regulated into the sump by a float switch connected to a small pump in a [...]

Stop Motion aquaDRAMA

Nathan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:58:20 +0000

aquaDRAMA – The Killing Fields

Nathan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:54:42 +0000

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 and reappeared before, [...]

Global Update

Nathan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:15:36 +0000

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 home [...]

aquaDRAMA update

Nathan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:53:48 +0000

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 in [...]

Attack of The Pyramid Snails

Nathan — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:38:04 +0000

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

Nathan — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:34:07 +0000

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 [...]

Jumping Fish

Nathan — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:33:28 +0000

Read around about fish. It seems as if one of the largest reasons for death is jumping out of the tank. I have had several fish jump out, even a couple get caught and put back in. Wrasses are especially prone to this form of piscean suicide. I have constructed a wooden frame with a [...]

Harem is Rebuilt

Nathan — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:33:23 +0000

I do not want to celbrate too soon, but I have acclimated and introduced into aquaDRAMA 2 new Paracheilinus wrasses. A very colorful mccoskeri and a darker filamentosus to accompany the male, another filamentosus. I am trying to take photos but they swim around too quickly and I always forget to save the photos from [...]