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Crinoid Hitchhikers

Nathan — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:30:35 +0000

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

Nathan — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 01:13:55 +0000

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

Nathan — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:11:07 +0000

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

Nathan — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:27:48 +0000

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

Nathan — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:21:35 +0000

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

Nathan — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:18:49 +0000

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

Nathan — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:20:06 +0000

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

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 [...]

Maintenance

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

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:32:36 +0000

Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure – Rainier Maria Rilke

It seems strange to write a page like this on my blog as this whole entire thing is about my travels both physical and existential through life. I suppose I can try to give a brief overview of who [...]

Harem Decimated By Power Outage

Nathan — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:38:06 +0000

Followers of aquaDRAMA will recall I have been trying to establish a harem of Red Sea wrasses. I am sad to say that my burgeoning harem was decimated due to a power outage this pat week. I am left with the male only. I will attempt to rebuild the harem as special become available at [...]

aquaDRAMA

Nathan — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:20:14 +0000

The never ending saga of a tank lost in specific gravity!

The 4.0 version of aquaDRAMA is a brand new, as of 12/01/10, 90gal Oceanic Tech Series saltwater fish tank. The tank is sitting in the break between my kitchen and my living room. The name aquaDRAMA was given to the tank by a coworker [...]

Stamps: Little Bits of Art!

Nathan — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:36:00 +0000

I love citrus and on my last trip to Israel you could hardly ever find me without some form of it in my hands. I got a little sick once, because, I think, I drank about 4 gallons of orange juice wandering around Tel-Aviv in a few hours. Because of this love, I bought [...]

Paracheilinus lineopunctatus

Nathan — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:41:58 +0000

New addition to the tank. Yes he is very pretty and has these neat changing bands of colors. A member of the flasher wrasse family he is kind of timid, pretty, and almost bird like in the way he moves. I even constructed a cool new cover for my tank to prevent the eventual escape [...]

aquaDrama Undergoes Major Renovations

Nathan — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:13:11 +0000

My fish tank had serious growth of some kind of macro algae and I took the whole things apart to clean the rocks. This was a manual time consuming process to prevent damage to any of the good things living on rocks. As a result I restacked the rocks into a cool new single [...]