Just thought I'd drop in and see if there was a update? How are things?
Hey Brad!
A lot yet nothing; if that makes sense! lol
Coral wise I am at my stocking limits in my opinion. So not much new there other than letting things grow in. The tank has been doing "ok", not great, but not bad. I changed over to a calcium reactor several months back and I think I've finally got it dialed in. The corals were pale so I removed all the chaeto from the sump and a lot of the colors have come back. Just been trying to find the happy balance of some phosphate/nitrates in the tank without too much!
Fish wise, I had to catch the Niger Trigger and get rid of him because he was the death of many of my fish. I decided to go on a fish catching spree and revamp the stocking list. So I ended up catching my Blue Eye Kole which just got replaced with a Yellow Eye Kole which was in QT for 45 days. I caught 2 of the 3 orange striped cardinals as I think they ate my shrimp that I added after I took the Trigger out. Still need to work on catching the last one. I have an Atlantic Blue Tang showing up tomorrow which will get QT'd for at least 30 days. I need to decide if I will be done stocking fish then, or add a group of Chromis or something. I need to see how the tank adapts to having 2 tangs again.
Other than that; I've got to either start dosing Calcium or Kalk but haven't decided what to help keep up with the Calcium demand even though I'm running a Cal Rx. Yes, I know a Cal Rx is more like dosing ALK than CAL...
I've got a new light coming in the near future which will incorporate LED's and T5's. Just waiting for it to become available from a local reefer who is upgrading!
I'll try and post some pics soon. I was just thinking the other day that I needed to. Thanks for stopping by!
