I have been researching SW tanks for over two years and this may sound weird, but one thing I have looked forward to is nighttime. In my FW tanks I have never had livestock (other than snails) that behaves so much differently at night than during the day.
I have a small holding tank set up and cycled while I finish building my DT and sump. I added some corals (my first corals ever) and 5 Blue/Green Chromis yesterday.
The corals (Zoas, Hammers, and a blastomussa) began to open yesterday, but today opened much more and the Chromis attacked their meal today.
About two hours after lights out I had to go into that room and when I turned on the lights I saw no fish and all the corals were almost completely closed. For a hot minute I thought everything was dead.
Then a chromis slipped out under a rock and I realized my "reef" was sleeping. It was behaving like a reef should behave.
Kind of a weird "proud" moment, but it was the first moment in which I realized that I can do this.
It was my first "proud reefer" moment.
I have a small holding tank set up and cycled while I finish building my DT and sump. I added some corals (my first corals ever) and 5 Blue/Green Chromis yesterday.
The corals (Zoas, Hammers, and a blastomussa) began to open yesterday, but today opened much more and the Chromis attacked their meal today.
About two hours after lights out I had to go into that room and when I turned on the lights I saw no fish and all the corals were almost completely closed. For a hot minute I thought everything was dead.
Then a chromis slipped out under a rock and I realized my "reef" was sleeping. It was behaving like a reef should behave.
Kind of a weird "proud" moment, but it was the first moment in which I realized that I can do this.
It was my first "proud reefer" moment.