My marine tank has been running smooth for almost 2 years now. I’ve very much adopted my Uncle John’s (he runs ‘Beach Aquariums’, my Dad’s old aquarium at Bondi Beach) way of keeping fish, which is to basically don’t worry about anything at all! When I was first getting into the hobby I was hanging out at fish forums day and night and I was so into keeping the salt water paramters as close as I possibly could to the ocean. Control your nitrates, or was that nitrites! Keep the calcium up, dose with a billion chemical additives… keep it perfect! In doing so I think I only stressed the fish, corals and myself out even more. Ultimately I have employed a fantastic system, it’s relatively low tech but highly automated (a sensor activates a pump which tops up evaporated water and I have a deep sand bed, protein skimmer and a sump and under the tank .
Aquaria is no longer a crazy hobby for me (bikes are at the moment as you might have guessed lol) and it’s very much just become a part of my every day life (gotta love that).
Today I treated the fishies to some new lighting (as my tubes are almost 2 years old!). I dropped in to see George and Michella from Slippery Little Suckers in Kingsford (they’re such nice people) and picked up some nice 100% actinic + 50/50 actinic tubes which are slightly more blue than what I had before.
On the bike front: I dropped in to Maroubra Cycles and left my wheels with Ash who is going to true them for me. They’ll be back to me by tomorrow (I love those guys for squeezing me in).
My aluminium bars (which are replacing my barely used carbon bars) have finally come in the mail. These Easton EA70 25.4mm Low Rise 685mm bars are advertised as 250g, WRONG! Ripped off once again. They are 276g on my scale (oooh lol).
Difference between the CF bars + the new Eastons.
Pretty bad this side.
Other side.
New bars are on.
Looking forward to the wider bars as I’ve found myself holding onto the very edge of the bars a lot since getting the shorter CF bars (they were not as wide as the original Raceface Evolve XC bars on the bike).