Nano Reef cleaned up!

July 31, 2020

The tank is doing great now! It has been several weeks without new issues cropping. I did lose the Watchman Goby, everybody else is quite healthy though 🙂 The fish and invertebrates are still in the tank, just hiding in this photo.

Eheim Ecco Pro Canister Filter Review

May 3, 2020

This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy something through a link I will receive a small commission from the seller, at no additional cost to you. With the upcoming build of my 90 gallon aquarium, I have been using my 30 gallon tank as a bit of a testbed for exploring different filtration

Second week update on the nano reef cleanup

March 28, 2020

Today ends the second week of the new saltwater nano reef tank. Here is the update on the cleanup project. The tanks started out overgrown with algae an aiptasia. The tank had crashed. Here is a photo of how it started. I am dedicated to bringing this tank back up to snuff and giving it

New fish tank, saltwater- I have never had this before!

March 15, 2020

For over three decades I have kept aquariums. I tried to calculate of all the individual tanks over the years and came up with a rough 400 gallon number. In all of that time I have never had a saltwater fish tank! My friends Joshua and Jordan were the salt pros and I was the

How I made my first, CHEAP, aquarium sump

December 8, 2019

Sump filtration systems are popular amongst fish hobbyist, but in 33 years of fish keeping I have never had one on my tanks. My filter of choice is the good ‘ole under gravel. It can be a hotly debated method, but it has always served me well. Of course I have lived in places with