new site

well we've made a new site...it can be found here!

google search

fyi, i've added a google search at the bottom of our blog. it allows you to search the web or the three message boards listed. this should help as one of them has a tendency to not be search friendly ;o)

world's fastest

Check out this great presentation by Sheila Patek on the animal with the fastest prey capture mechanism in the world. thanks to nanoreef.co.uk where i found this great video

octo-squid?

A half octopus, half squid like animal was found off the cost of Hawaii's big island. It got stuck in a pipeline filter at 3,000ft deep. you can read more at boingboing.net

color & form

not relating to our aquarium, but i thought i'd share a new artist we recently stumbled upon - francoise nielly. her understanding of color and work speaks for its self. you can check out more at www.francoise-nielly.com

nano pics

saturday, we got hit with a little snow and had a short power outage...when the power came back on our tunze's starting shooting water out of the tank...the jerking motion from restarting cracked the C clamps that holds them in place. one of them is too cracked to work at all, so an MJ1200 is taking it's place. As for the other, it's zip-tied until a replacement can be had. waiting to hear back from roger@tunze, he's been great in the past. if it werent for his customer service i'm not sure i'd still be using the nano streams.

here's some new pictures of the nano reef. the a.horrida (chip's) , has turned a bright turquoise under the halide spots.