The Beautiful Reef from Turkey: Eren Yelkenci’s

ELEVEN   Hawaiian Yellow Tangs!!   nine Anthias,  nice Chromiis,   two Unicorns   and the list goes on.   Even just two HYT in a Reef Tank is a  master piece.  IMAGINE  those eleven Yellow Tang's >  that would be a sight to behold and a show tank not easily forgotten.

follow his thread in RC:


and a video to gaze  upon. 

Best Designed Aquarium

Modern Aquarium  has a history that began in the 1850's  founded by Robert Warington.  It began with a simple glass bowl with two goldfish on it.   In the spring of 1852,  Philip Henry Gosse  also experimented   with marine aquarium.  follow link here: AQUARIUM HISTORY


From the 18th century to the present day...  A lot has happen on the mechanics of keeping the artificial ecosystem alive.   From,  trickle filter to jaubert to berlin  to a sophisticated computerize aquarium  YET  the face of the said aquarium hasn't change much at all:

compare the tank of Mr. Goose (1852)

present  (photo from ADA)

If you compare both tanks..  Nothing has change much except on the approached of husbandry of the lives stocks.   Until...

CLAMS are NOT TANG-SAFE!!

I PANICKED!!!















look again.

yes I did panic the moment I saw my precious Purple Tang in the mercy of my precious Clam. I was torn between the two. A dilema between the best of my livestock. The tang as my Showpiece and the Crocea with white pattern- another showpiece. I stood infront of my tank shock! till I got back to my nerves shouting for my wife to help.

I was in the situation of not knowing what to do. A time where a every mili-second counts. I had so many solution within the span of a second.

* Save the tang. pry the clam !

* leave the clam, sacrifice the tang !

* Save them both! I said......... HOW??



in that span of nano-sec I grab my camera and bravely took pictures. I finally decided to pry the clam open. I ask my wife (panicking more than meself) to take the screw driver and the heck about the clam I will just force it open. The clam gave-in and the tang swam............





then only to realized the irreversible damage done to our beloved PT. The snout was heavily damaged with his teeth like protruding. Darn!...




I was happy that the PT was out of the clam's life-taking grip, but was very sad to see the tang breathing rapidly. My wife came to my rescue talking to the fish that everything's gonna be alright. I know sounds funny but we love this fish! After around 20 minutes later i saw him on his side.....






and finally he succumb. My tears rolled down! Very sad day for us!

my first post

I've just created my blog.



finally after planning for the longest time. This will be about my Hobby- about my "prodigal cube", the story of how I came about with reefing. I will be featuring the history of my reefing career, my travels/visits, news about reefing world, featured equipments, and of course it would center on the cube tank.