Photo update
Corals and crabs are happy. The hammer coral is lush, the star polyps are spreading like the plague, the Xenia is happily pumping , and the almost dead plate coral has a bunch of heads growing on it. The button polyps are still unhappy but starting to open slightly again. Not sure what has them in a funk. They’ve been unhappy for a while now. The Pitho crabs are doing good so far. Though they are fairly private I have started seeing them during daylight hours lately. They like to bury in the sand when they aren’t busy eating. I’m thinking I may step up the frequency of my water changes to get the nutrients down a bit in the tank. Got an OW-25 cheapo wave maker on its way. I really wanted to get the icecap 1k gyre but I have all these small snails and I thought they would jam it up.
Corals and crabs are happy. The hammer coral is lush, the star polyps are spreading like the plague, the Xenia is happily pumping , and the almost dead plate coral has a bunch of heads growing on it. The button polyps are still unhappy but starting to open slightly again. Not sure what has them in a funk. They’ve been unhappy for a while now. The Pitho crabs are doing good so far. Though they are fairly private I have started seeing them during daylight hours lately. They like to bury in the sand when they aren’t busy eating. I’m thinking I may step up the frequency of my water changes to get the nutrients down a bit in the tank. Got an OW-25 cheapo wave maker on its way. I really wanted to get the icecap 1k gyre but I have all these small snails and I thought they would jam it up.