Jake Pehrson (substituting for Adam) 

Marzena won the last contest and won an all expense paid trip to Fiji (complements of Adam)!

Here we go.  Marzena said the last one was too easy.  I will try to make them harder as we go.

If you are still questioning whether such a thing as global warming even exists I invite you to check out some literature simply for your education.

http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html

http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000713slouching_toward_sci.html

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/fgwscience2005.asp

http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/

a cartoonish version of the same informaiton....

http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/05fal/climate.asp?r=n

and in case you think it is all a one-sided affair..

http://www.globalwarming.org/

The one "fact" you can't dismiss is the decline and literal death of coral reefs across the world.  Coral reefs that provide much of our oxygen, produce tons of food, and contain many pharmaceuticals (many have not even been discovered) not to mention our reef tanks and SCUBA adventures. 

For those of you (us) that SCUBA losing these natural treasures would be unthinkable.  So we must enact change.

How do we do this?

http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/pages/actions.html

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/carboncalculator.asp

One of the many things we can do is to limit electrical usage.  We know that pumps use alot of energy.  But, what about just turning off the TV?  The TV is a huge non-essential energy consumer.  Consider buying a hybrid car instead of a truck or SUV.  What about solar heating panels?  Solar blankets over your water heater.  Sky lights to let in more light and changing your lifestyle to limit having lights on.  At the very least replace your incandescent lights in the house to fluorescent lights.

Hey all,

Jake Pehrson here (filling in for Adam)

I thought while Adam was away we could have a little ID contest.  We will start easy and get harder.  There will be corals, fish, and inverts.

Common names are okay, but what we are really looking for are scientific names (genus and species if possible).

Yesterday was a bad day.

I received a call yesterday from my kids saying the house was hot. (98')

So I asked them to look at the tank temp. Guess what, 89'. [;(]

I rushed home and turned off the MH and put fans on the water.  I then started throwing icecubes in.  After 2-3 hours of this, I finally got the tank down to 85'.  By this morning, it was down to it's normal 77.  It looks like I lost most of my SPS but none of my LPS or softies ( I hope).

I use the basement to cool the sump/refug but since the upstairs got so hot, the basement heated up also.

I called all around the valley and finally found someone to come out tonight to look at the AC, however, I think the problem is the compressor, big $$$ to fix.

May you all have better days! 

So, we had a lot of discussion about fish and some about corals, but we're missing some of the best reef creatures!

INVERTS!

Here is one of my favorites. The harlquin shrimp (Hymenocera elegans). Although finicky in their diet, these shrimp are striking and can be maintained with dedication and extra work. They feed exclusively on sea stars and are very proficient at eradicating the nuisance sea stars (Asterina). However, once the nuisance sea stars are gone, weekly feedings of other live sea stars is necessary.  

 Shane H - guest blogger!

This is a pretty fish.  It is my wife's and she really enjoys having him.  Very pale color, quite soothing is the best way I can put it.

Tennenti Tang

Adam

ReefEnvy like Promised, brings you "Blasto Madness"!!

I'm sure all of you are itching to see some More killer Blasto morphs!!  Wasn't that Slamin Melon'talic nice?... Now, I present to you, the Second Morph to be added to the ReefEnvy Blasto madness series!

+`<~*  DRUM ROLL *~>`+  

 This Blastois pretty cool, and is a Soft Lavander color. The whole center is a nice icy green color.  Also notice that the mouths are not a diffrent color which is pretty neat:)  

In my tank, this morph Contrasts nicely with the other blastos!

Blasto Madness INTRO:
http://blogs.frags.org/showblog.php?bid=455

 Enjoy!!

 -Reefenvy-

If anyone has questions about the blog during my absence please post here or speak with Heil.

Adam

Well as you all know I travel a lot.  I was going to let the blog go, but several people are starting to like this site.  I've had a couple people say they are encouraged to start their own blog.  SWEET!  So the frags.org staff is letting them give it a try.  Please be checking back here to see some of the new guest bloggers.

Adam

So here are some pics of Calfo fragging a fungia.  Not a common coral to frag by any means.  Share your thoughts....

Adam