Archive for September, 2006

reef calling?

Friday, September 29th, 2006

I had the chance to buy a really cheap GSM-module for the IKS-Aquastar. ( www.iks-aqua.de/html/engl/fernueberwachung.php )
From now on, powerfault, systemfault, IKS-value-triggered-alarm etc. are not only monitored, but sent by short message (sms) to my cellular.
A daily message with the actual monitored parameters is sent once a day.
If called from my cellular, the module replies […]

coral frag tank installed

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Last weekend I installed a 57 USgal coral frag tank. As you can see on the pictures, it’s located above the right part (algae-partition) of the filtersump. The water outlet of the main-sump-pump was originally directed partly into the algae partition and is now redirected to the frag tank. The overflow of the frag tank […]

thanks for all the fish

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

well, there are some more now.
Visiting Michael Mrutzek, I found a healthy little group of Pseudochromis fridmani in his shop.
I added 5 small ones, which will hopefully develop to a harem with one male.

Nach ewiger Zeit habe ich mal wieder Michael Mrutzeks Laden besucht und mir eine kleine Gruppe von Pseudochromis fridmani aus den Becken […]

new livings

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

I always wanted a pair of sand-digging gobys.
Unfortunately some time ago, the Kole tang killed one of my two Amblygobius phalaena and was hunting the other one.
I gave that one away now and found a (compared to the former ones) small pair of Valenciennea muralis.
They dig through the sand, as the former ones did and […]