Fishroom Reality Check

[User]

Ever since setting my gyres to do a ‘tida exchange’ standing wave, my favia has been getting crazy polyp extension... to the point that about an hour before ‘sundown’ it’s really fuzzy

Other faves-

 

[User]

MACNA ‘21 is in the ATL!!

Y’all should come round for a cookout and a Tank/ Fishroom tour

 

[User]

uuuggghghhgh

im waiting on a couple key pieces for my new light setup, and its driving me nuts. I just want to get these Noops up, already!

 

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Iuuggghhh

somehow managed to turn the mixing pump on at the nsw station, Maybe for most of the week, and now my ALK is at 5... 40 gallons of basically useless water, unless there’s a fix?

 

[Victoria M]

Iuuggghhh

somehow managed to turn the mixing pump on at the nsw station, Maybe for most of the week, and now my ALK is at 5... 40 gallons of basically useless water, unless there’s a fix?

Not sure what you mean? dKH of 5? Add baking soda till it is 9 or better yet baked baking soda. Or am I not on the right track? I gotta be missing something?

 

[User]

Not sure what you mean? dKH of 5? Add baking soda till it is 9 or better yet baked baking soda. Or am I not on the right track? I gotta be missing something?

Yeah, but it’s just in my mixing container.
I had a total brain fart regarding how to recover it, and I’ve been swamped with girls today. Katie has been at ‘virtual cancer meeting’ 8am- 7pm for three days...

I totally forgot about baked baking soda- thanks Victoria

 

[Victoria M]

Probably not funny but if we dont laugh we might cry. ;Bucktooth

 

[User]

Probably not funny but if we dont laugh we might cry. ;Bucktooth

Ain’t that the truth.

missed you Victoria- hope you’ve been taking care of yourself, as much as you’ve been caring for others

 

[Victoria M]

Ain’t that the truth.

missed you Victoria- hope you’ve been taking care of yourself, as much as you’ve been caring for others

Aw thanks friend. I am doing well. It is a bit tough at times but doing well.

 

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I got a couple hours yesterday to dip, remount and move my acans and Blasto up to the Display

Fragged our the smaller GSP colony over a few more shells

before hair Cut:

replaced the 10g with a new 20long for the coralQT- have a couple good looking leathers coming this week

And the final hardware for my new light set up should be here today... yay!

 

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Got to say- I’m loving the look of having a finch of small frag rocks on the sand. I’ve long thought I’d keep the corals on the main rocks, but just something about covering up that sand appeals

got to find me a bowerbankii or something big. Orange rainbow maybe

 

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Got a couple new pierced of livestock coming - another skunk cleaner shrimp because Katie wants to see them dance (?!?) and a 6” wide toadstool that is purported to be a weeping willow... apparently this actual specimen has had 8-9” long polyps in the past, in high flow areas, but has been a little shorter since it’s position got switched around. We’ll see- I’m excited to see if it grows out

Pics at 4.30 after I dip and remount

 

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[Victoria M]

I am so jealous! I have been wanting a weeping toad stool for so long!

 

[Victoria M]

We love cleaner shrimp!

 

[User]

I am so jealous! I have been wanting a weeping toad stool for so long!

Turns out it probably isn’t a real one. I’m not going to complain though, still looks good, just not quite what I was looking for.

but I might be wrong. It’s been under low to moderate flow apparently so it might adapt with longer polyps if I increase flow. It just seems like the polyp density isn't as high as areal WW, so it won’t look like a mass of swirling spaghetti

 

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Managed to get a couple solid hours in the lights today

Old lights are still up so there’s a bunch of extra wiring, but they will come down on Saturday and I’ll be fully Nooped up (@noopsyche) with 4 K7 Pro IIs

those power supply brackets were courtesy of @dantimdad, and work awesome.

 

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Remember the leather I got- well, it came with a bonus of a massive bacterial bloom that took 10 days to ride out, and the water cleared up in day 11 to reveal a whole load of these flatworms. Great.


I’d say they aren’t AEFW, since it’s been over 2 weeks and I don’t have any Acro- so they’d have starved by now. I’m not sure if there is anything I can really do other than 1) live with it and be ok with them going to Display and hope they are benign 2) clean the entire QT out, dip corals and do that 3-4 times over the next 3 weeks (ugh) 3) flatworm exit?

the problem with 2) is that I only really get 3-4 hours/ week FOR EVERYTHING that isn’t baby related, including yard etc, so getting time to do that is going to be near impossible. Plus I only just broke down and restarted the tank, it would be a pain to do that all again, several times.

anyway- if anyone can offer an ID or strategy, I’d appreciate it! Like I said- glass is covered. I stopped counting at 50 and I’d only done 1/3rd of a front panel.