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Jon Clarke's Reef Aquarium
A site dedicated to my hobby of reef keeping.

Having kept tropical freshwater fish for many years as a teenager, the keeping of a reef aquarium was a very appealing prospect. So in June 1998 I bought a Percula 90 aqaurium. Expensive for its size (3 feet long - about 60 gallons) but looks quite smart, which was a requirement for it being placed in the living room.

So after setting everything up and once the water was in a fit state, I could start buying the contents (and I thought the mortgage was a lot !). In went my fish, invertebrates and corals - not all at once I might add. The aquarium then looked something like this (sorry about the chair in the way !) ...
 
 

So after a couple of years and lots of tender loving care, heaving buckets of water around, and much viewing pleasure, the aquarium looked like this ...

 
          
 

But then the children arrived, and my wife stopped work, so I had to sell the lot ! Its a great but expensive hobby. But fear not - it will be back, bigger and better, some day ... Oh, I had a blasted pistol or mantis shrimp in this tank that I never found, despite using all manner of traps, bait, CO2 etc etc etc