Hey everyone,   My life has gotten so busy right now, that I have neglected my tank. I let AEFW and PO4 (phosphates) invade what use to be a beautiful tank. I battled AEFW for about 4 months, and am happy to say that I have gotten rid of them thanks to the use of [...]

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You thought we were dead. Well, you WERE right. But some things you just can’t kill. We are the cockroaches of the reefing blogosphere. Something keeps up drawn to write and share our experiences with the rest of the reefing world. Case in point this new thing called Levimasole. Its a known dewormer commonly used in [...] Related posts:

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I know it has been a while since my last real entry, but that is what happens when you have a new kid. (No no no, I didn’t get more fish or a dog and a cat, I actually had a baby). So what prompted this blog entry was a sudden discovery of a grafted coral. [...] Related posts:

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Between my iPhone and my Amazon Prime membership, there is an awful lot of stuff I can make materialize on my front steps within 48 hours. Books are easy. I’m ashamed to say I’ve not found what I was looking for in a Barnes and Noble and ordered it from Amazon while I stood there [...] Related posts:

1. LFS That Lie
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3. Thursday Roundup

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I drink European coffee. Fancy-pants stuff I can only really acquire in pods to use with my Tassimo One-Cup coffee maker. I can slum it with Starbucks from the Barnes and Noble Cafe, but at it’s heart European coffee is just a smoother drink. I don’t need to add half-and-half and a bunch of non-sugar [...] Related posts:

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Last year we bought an annual pass to the Disney parks in Orlando. It’s a reasonable drive from South Carolina and we’ve been able to make several trips. Between Christmas and New Years, we made our final visit. With the tank move and various disasters and general bad timing over the past year, I’ve been [...] Related posts:

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Rather than live through another cycle, I opted to stack the well-established live rock from the old tank on top of dry base rock. In order to hit the recommended pounds per gallon (a formula which has been called into question in recent trends in reefkeeping but one that I like because I like stuff [...] Related posts:

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2. what’s cooking?
3. Bad advice is bad

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Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas fragditphiles! Or as the business world puts it nowadays, Happy Holidays. It is our yearly tradition here at Fragd.it to do a Christmas carol, ala reefy style. So here we present, our version of the famous carol 12 Days of Christmas (sing it as you read it). On the 1st [...] Related posts:

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