During April the missus noticed my foxface looked a bit thin compared to normal. We could actually start to see part of its lateral line (I think that's the right terminology). Since having the bub I'd gotten a bit lazy with regular seaweed and when refilling the food, it looks like I may have not opened it enough (though I thought the mark lined up).
Anyway, thankfully caught it early enough.
Went back to nearly daily seaweed in the clip since, fixed the auto feeder (pondering setting up an additional feed too), and trying to make sure there is some frozen thrown in once or twice a week. I'd be tempted to throw more food at them but just worry about the nutrient levels as I'm terrible at monitoring them (was supposed to do it on the weekend and got sidetracked).
The foxface has definitely fattened back up in the past few weeks so we're very happy there. All other fish seem to be pretty happy as well overall thankfully too, though we are seeing a little bit of push n shove happening between some of the tangs on occasion and even the foxface likes to tell the hippo tang to back off when its feeding time.
The aiptasia eating filefish has been doing good work. Most of the aiptasia is now gone, I think I've only noticed one slightly visible one in the tank currently and it's kind of hidden under another softy so the filefish may not have seen it yet.
Over the weekend I harvested some of the chaeto for the first time, took out about half as it had finally settled in and filled the chamber it was in which was cool. For a while there I felt like it was doing nothing.
I also had my first attempt at removing some xenia (just one branching piece in particular) as it was really encroaching on one of my leather corals and even started to grip onto it. I think I got most of it off the rock but may have left a little bit behind, will have to wait n see how that goes. Trying to get the piece to latch onto another piece of rock so I can perhaps go trade it at the LFS or to another reefer or something.
I've also been dealing with some annoying salt creep that's been coming from the RMS. It ends up going on the outer glass and wicking moisture down the glass and onto the cleaning magnet. Really annoying.
Starting to consider whether I remove the arms from the tank itself and try and hang the RMS by the roof.
@JonoH I saw you have hung lights for your set up. How did you go about it, do you need to get into the roof at all and any other info/tips you would suggest if going this route?
Pics incoming.
