Aquariums and Vivariums - A Collection

Are these friendly aquatic animals or not?

Here is a short video of my central American vivarium which has been growing in over the last 6 months.

Here is Grace again when she was nine months old. She loves chasing the keychain...

Here's Grace when she was only 4 months old. So cute you want to give her a spanking!

These herbivores are a critical part of the Caribbean ecosystem as they are the primary grazers of algae which would overgrow the reefs if left unchecked.

These beautiful seahorses can be a little tricky to keep in captivity as they require a source of continual live food. Marine reef keepers often utilize special refugiums which are somewhat isolated from the main aquarium in order to populate their aquariums with live food such as copepods.

Here is a quick look at a some Percula clowns (Amphiprion percula), a Fireback Dwarf Angelfish (Centropyge acanthops), a handful of Bubble Tip Anemones and various Acropora coral frags.

A male Abronia takes a quick bath

Here is the 'Milkback' morph of Porcellio leavis checking out his new home. In the last few years, isopods aka roly-polies have become quite the trendy pet with some species selling at $30 or more apiece.

Such an interesting relative of the seahorse

After waiting 10 week of utilizing the dry start method, I finally flooded my aquarium, a Mr. Aqua 12 Long.

I apologize for the poor quality of this video. Nevertheless, enjoy a school of Brichardi and their fry.

A wonderful method of starting a freshwater planted tank is to plant heavy ground covering plants and allowing them to fill in the tank for 4 to 6 weeks before adding water. The tank is covered with plastic film thereby keeping the humidity close to 100%.

A gorgeous school of Rainbowfish from Madagascar.

Here is a close up of my elevated refugium along with some of the anemones and polyps that I brought back from Key West.

This Marine Iguana looks like it lost its tail, most likely evading a predator at some point.

A captive bred juvenile Abronia graminea chowing down on hornworms.

A newly installed Tunze Wavebox mimics the natural oscillating current of the ocean.

This is one of my favorite nano tank species. Easy to breed and absolutely stunning.

Here's my reef tank in its early stages. No fish, just live rock at this point. I placed the refugium above the main tank so that it would feed the via gravity and without any pumps.

This gorgeous dwarf angelfish was a perfect reef tank inhabitant at all times.

Polychaetes aka Bristle Worms - yuck

If you have a reef tank with naturally sourced live rock, then you probably have more Polychaetes in your care than any other species of inhabitant. The freaks come out at night...

Thor amboinensis is one of my favorite species of marine ornamental shrimp.

I absolutely love these beautiful lizards. Here's one of my Abronia taking in a mealworm from tweezers. They are kept outdoors in an open air vivarium for as long as the weather allows.