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Caught up, looking good, what happened to the red macro algae?
About half had bryopsis growing on it and got pitched, the emerald crab happened to the rest, but he did eat all the bubble and hair algae.
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Invasive back wall is growing so much faster than the coral I like!
Zenia surprised me by attaching anywhere a stem or hand touched, and detaching from its base. Some is even in the sand, one is on my zoa rock. I'll probably suck out the ones on the sand before they end up in my "good" rock. The one on the zoa rock I've tried to kill, but can only poke at it bcs of the crevice it is in.
Gsp has grown an impressive mat in a month, even with a move from rock to the back wall. This is the same clump in less than 30 days.
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Glued a loose zoa to a snail, let's see if it likes the changing light and flow.
Zenia surprised me by attaching anywhere a stem or hand touched, and detaching from its base. Some is even in the sand, one is on my zoa rock. I'll probably suck out the ones on the sand before they end up in my "good" rock. The one on the zoa rock I've tried to kill, but can only poke at it bcs of the crevice it is in.
Gsp has grown an impressive mat in a month, even with a move from rock to the back wall. This is the same clump in less than 30 days.
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Glued a loose zoa to a snail, let's see if it likes the changing light and flow.
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Invasive back wall is going gangbusters. Most things are happy except for the goni, still shrinking.
Once the gsp moves to the rock on the back wall I'll pbly have to move the zoa down to the floor rock. My original idea was a zoa back wall and macro floor, but bubble algae and the requisite emerald crab, along with bryopsis changed that. My wife liked the yellow "palm trees" in the lfs lighting, so here we are. I'm pretty happy with it being it is very low maintenance.
Once the gsp moves to the rock on the back wall I'll pbly have to move the zoa down to the floor rock. My original idea was a zoa back wall and macro floor, but bubble algae and the requisite emerald crab, along with bryopsis changed that. My wife liked the yellow "palm trees" in the lfs lighting, so here we are. I'm pretty happy with it being it is very low maintenance.
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Gsp on the back wall has shrunk to 1/2 the size it had quickly grown to. I do ~ 40% nsw change 2x/mo to replace minerals, etc. so not sure what is being depleted after it grew so quickly. Phosphates test at 0, but I am getting a bit more green film algae on the glass after increasing my feeding the past few months.
I plucked a gorg from a sunken chair on a jobsite. The 1st pic was before the ultra-low winter tides exposed it and killed half the branches, as you can see in the 2nd photo a few weeks later.
After trimming it I placed it in the back of the tank, where it just sat there recovering for a month. Last night I fed and did a water change and it appears to be recovered with lots of polyps extended.
I plucked a gorg from a sunken chair on a jobsite. The 1st pic was before the ultra-low winter tides exposed it and killed half the branches, as you can see in the 2nd photo a few weeks later.
After trimming it I placed it in the back of the tank, where it just sat there recovering for a month. Last night I fed and did a water change and it appears to be recovered with lots of polyps extended.
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Caught this rascal who ate all my cool hitchhiker algae. Mermaid's cup, etc. Hopeful that the bubble algae is gone forever but the cup spores remain
Bristleworm that ate my molted anemone shrimp is next.
Bristleworm that ate my molted anemone shrimp is next.
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Never did catch the bristleworm.
Got a new order in from Kpaquatics. Just a nanoreef order of 2 serpent starfish (they sent 3), an orange ricordea, and a yellow ball sponge (came with a tiny starfish hitchhiker)
I did a really dumb thing by releasing the starfish at the front/top of the tabk and they blew into an rfa and frogspawn. The one in the rfa managed to get away with 3 legs intact but I had to pull out the one in the frogspawn, and he lost all but 1 leg. He seemed stunned, probably stung. Hope it makes it.
My 11 m/o boy saw daddy with his hands in the tank and decided he wanted to, too, so now I have another problem.
Here is the temp sponge placement. It's amazing how one color can make a big difference sometimes.
I may frag the frogspawn into 3 and turn 2 or all of it into the lfs for credit, they are selling heads for $175 retail.
Got a new order in from Kpaquatics. Just a nanoreef order of 2 serpent starfish (they sent 3), an orange ricordea, and a yellow ball sponge (came with a tiny starfish hitchhiker)
I did a really dumb thing by releasing the starfish at the front/top of the tabk and they blew into an rfa and frogspawn. The one in the rfa managed to get away with 3 legs intact but I had to pull out the one in the frogspawn, and he lost all but 1 leg. He seemed stunned, probably stung. Hope it makes it.
My 11 m/o boy saw daddy with his hands in the tank and decided he wanted to, too, so now I have another problem.
Here is the temp sponge placement. It's amazing how one color can make a big difference sometimes.
I may frag the frogspawn into 3 and turn 2 or all of it into the lfs for credit, they are selling heads for $175 retail.
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Think I got bryopsis from my KP Aquatics sponge (the sliver of rock it came on)
Plucked it with a tweezers today, then put 4 or 5 drops of h2o2 on the stubs stuck too deeply to tweeze. Never had seen the hermit up there. He was feeding on the stubs within an hour.
I did have to pull a somewhat loose lepto frag to get to the base of the algae.
Cool sponge growing...
Plucked it with a tweezers today, then put 4 or 5 drops of h2o2 on the stubs stuck too deeply to tweeze. Never had seen the hermit up there. He was feeding on the stubs within an hour.
I did have to pull a somewhat loose lepto frag to get to the base of the algae.
Cool sponge growing...
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Chopped up some of the rock on the floor for the back wall. I'd like to have only sand on the floor, but the wife likes the frogspawn she picked out. Everything is unhappy right now with the water stirred up.
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