One of the biggest challenges in the world of aquaria is what is called "reefkeeping". While the majority of our planet is covered with saltwater, there is a percentage of a percentage of special areas where amazing creatures exist. These are coral reefs. A slightly-crazy breed of aquarium enthusists are dedicated to creating what are called "reef tanks", maintaining very delicate ecosystems and propogating corals and other rare marine life. This site is dedicated to my appreciation of this combination of science and art.

Latest Pix from the tank as of 03/29/02

This is a very interesting creature. I'm not exactly sure what it is. Some sort of worm I imagine. It has eight tentacles that come out of the hole; the tentacles look like branches from a tree but it's some sort of living creature. I'm not talking about the red tube worm/feature duster, but the thing coming out of the hole.

A nice closeup of some of my Fiji polyps.

This is a green Ricordea Mushroom Anemone. What's interesting here is that this is a very large specimen that appears to be splitting into 3-4 smaller ones. You can see more than one "mouth" now!

These are various LPS specimens.

Newly-aquired pink/red Ricordia Mushroom Anemone.

Nice closeup of Sun Polyps.

Anemone number one of four. They keep reproducing!

An overall view, and then an extreme close-up of my Fungia plate coral.

This is a view of my new 30 gallon tank which will generally be dedicated to SPS corals. No fish right now - I'm letting the pod population build.

A good view of the main tank - as you can see, heavily overgrown with pulsing Xenia in the upper right quadrant.

A nice view showing the Secretive Wrasse and my False Percula Clownfish, along with the Galaxia SP near the center.

Red Ricordia under actinics.

closeup of Fiji Polyps.

Very cool flourescent mushrooms - they've been reproducing like mad in the sand.

A rare view of one of the brittle stars in my tank.

closeup of Galaxia SP with some sweeper tentacles extended.

WANTED! Dead or Alive! Actually, this peppermint shrimp is becoming less of a bother these days, but I'm not sure if I'd put another one in a reef tank.

Rare clear shot of the Secretive Wrasse. He is often hiding and difficult to photograph.

Nice closeup of Cleaner Shrimp.

Another good shot of the wrasse, doing what he usually does: poking his head out from behind the reef.

Closeup of non-photosynthetic Gorgonian.

A small, nondescript patch of coral, along with a creepy crawly worm that I was lucky enough to phtograph as he came out of a crevice.