Another year has passed, and as usual I'm always fascinated by the traffic my site gets. During 2008:

Unique Visitors - 404,582
Pages Viewed - 3,204,735
Hits - 5.3 million
Bandwidth - 2.4 Terabytes

For New Year's Eve, I visited a friend of mine in Austin, and while I was there I saw a frag of an Efflo that I'd given him last year. It's doing great, and looks much nicer than the parent colony in my own tank.

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2007 is behind us, and I thought it would be interesting to post a few statistics for the year.

Website Traffic:
Unique Visitors - 351,998
Pages read - 3,036,558
Bandwidth used - 1.7 terabytes
Over 42 million hits!!

Average reef tank parameters for the year:
Temp - 80.3F
pH - 8.13
Salinity - 1.026 sg
Alkalinity - 10.9 dKH
Calcium - 470 ppm
Phosphate - .13 ppm
Magnesium - 1369 ppm
Nitrate - 35 ppm
ORP - 316

Last coral added to my reef for 2007:

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Factoids about my tank:

Size: InterAmerican Starfire 280g - 72 x 30 x 30
Lighting: (2) 250w 10,000K + 400w 20,000K + 320w 6' VHO Actinics (picture)
Alkalinity: 11 dKH
Calcium: 475ppm
Magnesium: 1280 - 1400 ppm
Calcium Reactor: Lifereef VS-24 with Milwaukee pH Controller
Salinity: 1.026 sg
Temperature: 79F to 80F daily (maintained with fishroom at 75F with a window a/c)
Peak pH: 8.2 - 8.3
Feeding: Once daily with my home-made frozen mixture
Age: 3 years
Circulation: Little Giant return pump, 3 VorTech pumps (Tunze pictured below is now out)
Sump: DIY acrylic 60 x 36 x 16 with propagation section & refugium (picture)
Miscellaneous: Phosban Reactors for phosphate removal (changed monthly) & to run carbon (changed weekly)
Dosing: Salifert Amino Acids when I think about it
Top off: RO/DI only
Salt: Kent for years, recently switched to Rea Sea Pro Reef - frequent 55g water changes lately.

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If you've been following my site over time, you know how I love to compare numbers over time. I watch the site's statistics each month as reported by my hosting company. I've been using ipowerweb.com for the past few years, and they do a good job keeping my site up at all times. Here are the numbers for 2006:

Total bandwidth used - 1,600 gigs (or 1.6 terrabytes!)
Total unique visitors - 340,000
Total hits - 37 million (every file that makes up a webpage is counted as a hit)
Total pages viewed - 3.1 million

I'm very honored that my site continues to be found useful to hobbyists around the world, and I'll continue to update it with more information and new topics as time allows.

...

I just received my copy of Tropical Fish Hobbyist - Feb 2007. In this issue on page 126 you'll find the Mandarin Diner article I wrote. How cool is that?! I've got a published article in a real (print) magazine. :) Some of my images were included as well.

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