Steven Smith of Napa California is lucky to be alive after his ~25 gallon fish tank weighing hundreds of pounds crashed down onto his head during Sundays 6.0 earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area. Luckily, Smith was sleeping face down and avoided more serious injury, but still sustained a [...]
Summer is coming, and we all know high temperatures and reef tanks don’t mix. What few don’t know is what we should do about it, so I’d like to share my experiences over the last few days. At the retail store I manage, the AC unit has been down for most the week, and with temps in [...]
With all the new technology and fancy filtration in the industry, hobbyists often forget the KISS rule. Keep it simple stupid! Reef hobbyists often get caught up in the technology of the tanks to an extent that may be detrimental to the very reasons they got into it in the first place. Complex [...]
For those of you who do not know me, I have a 500G reef dominated by SPS corals that has been running, successfully by most standards, for the past 4 years. Every night before I go to bed, I give my tanks a quick check. Last night I checked the tank and all my corals were fine. This morning [...]