The stupid thing just couldn't wait, could he.  About to set up my new tank in the very near future, but does that mean he shouldn't try to put a new leak in my old tank, nope.

Just leaving work one night early this month, got a phone call from my wife that the power was off in the house, but the lights were working fine.  Told her to turn off the power point to the tank, check the meter box, which was tripped and then turn it back on.  The power stayed on fine with the tank off.  She turned back on the power to the tank and it tripped again.

For some time now, probably in the order of 12-18 months, there have been a number of empty Turbo sp. shells showing up on the sand bed.  Didn't really think too much of it, but the number has been increasing significantly recently.  Some time ago I spotted two new snails on the glass that don't appear to be herbivores and spotted them again recently and they had doubled in size.  So, they were eating something and it appears like it was my Turbo sp. who were on the menu.

Planning and construction of the new tank has pretty much zero distance since the last update.  Simply have been flat out at work and home (with construction of filtration equipment for others) trying just to catch up with things.  And it hasn't really been helped that much by the fact been sick a couple of times and other things keep on cropping up that eat into time.  Going to have to really make it a priority now so that I can get things rolling along.  Although, I have still been thinking about things in the back of my mind.

Well, it has been a rather a long time since I have put one of these up here.  And I thought it was about time that I got off my butt and put another entry in here .  Big news is that I have decided it is time for a change ...

In the last week of March I noticed that one of my Gobiodon okinawae was hanging around very closely to a Pavona minuta colony and not moving anywhere else in the tank as they normally do. Taking a closer look I noticed that the under surface area of one of the branches had some eggs attached to it. They have finally decided to start breeding.

Things starting to cruise along nicely, Purple Queen Anthias feeding well, corals starting to take off again, starting to get somewhere .... then this happens ;(

After the loss of a substantial amount of livestock, predominantly corals and all Acropora spp., due to a temperature spike at the very end of summer, it was time for a total reworking of my reef aquarium.

Below are all the old issues of OZ REEF Press that I use to put out monthly some years ago.

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Bringing you all the latest news, events and resident information from OZ REEF Marine Park, plus general reef related material.

This months Special Feature is titled "Secrets of the Lagoon" which is about the wonders being discovered in the largely unexplored territory of the extensive lagoons between the Great Barrier Reef and mainland Australia, and Marther gives a suggestion on how to check the accuracy of hydrometers.