Getting the tank back into shape

by | Jan 12, 2011 | Journal

We had let the marine tank kind of get along in the keeping of the monster hammer coral…euphyllias like it, and they had taken over. So we fragged the monster (Jane has pix) and rearranged the tank. To our great disgust, Jane’s brilliant arrangement has a...

the day from hell—Wednesday.

by | Jan 6, 2011 | Journal

I get up—I turn on my computer. I have no website. I have no blog. I have no e-mail. It’s snowing. I figure out that when I received the notification that I owed more money to a company for the website, I dimly (I have NO brain when I’m working on...

one of those days…(the Monday and Tuesday version)

by | Jan 6, 2011 | Journal

Jane and I determined on Tuesday to frag the very large (nearly 2′) hammer coral in our marine tank—because it had grown up against the glass and took half our 54 gallon tank. We prepared: we got buckets (polystyrene), a small saw for the coral, found a...