I love new toys

Once again I believe I am the first person in South Africa to own these fine products:

  1. Sonnet Temp eSATA ExpressCard/34
  2. LaCie d2 Quadra

Eat your heart out! South Africa's importers should only begin receiving stock in a couple months' time.

Why one should listen...

I have two brilliant little books on Marine Invertebrates and Marine Fish - one by Shimek, the other by Scott W. Michael. Now usually advise is something you take with a grain of salt since in the reef hobby, the only two certainties are

"The faster you go the worse things will get"

and

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Photomicrography - Algae

I have been playing a bit with my microscope and under 4x, 10x and 40x objectives I managed to capture these pictures of various macro algae. Try to identify them... (PS Go to my reef gallery for the answers)

Asparagopsis taxiformis Falkenbergia Stage / Sporophyte Stage
Asparagopsis taxiformis Falkenbergia Stage / Sporophyte Stage
Derbesia - Green Hair Algae
Derbesia - Green Hair Algae
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A classic

(From CodeSOD: The Pyramid of Error)

if (error)
  if (fprintf(stderr,"An error occured while writing to the file")<0){
    if (fprintf(stderr,"An error occured while writing to stderr")<0){
      if (fprintf(stderr,"An error occured while writing to stderr")<0){
        if (fprintf(stderr,"An error occured while writing to stderr")<0){
          if (fprintf(stderr,"An error occured while writing to stderr")<0){
            return fprintf(stderr, "An error occured while writing to stderr");
            /* lets stop here, its enough */
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

Death

My new bamboo shark died yesterday night. So too did my hawk fish that I sucked up when I siphoned my tank for the hypo treatment. This is very depressing. The whole reason I ordered the bigger tank was for the shark. To help keep the nitrates down. I guess we learn the hard way. Just because your aquarium is 6 months+ old does not mean you can add fish more quickly.