Just a few notes for today -
The foxface rabbit fish has settled in nicely after some skirmishes with the current residents. He actually got a small chunk taken out of his tail fin by someone/thing, but he seems to be no worse for it.
Regrets -
Adding those blue legged hermits. Even with some empty shells thrown in, those murderous little jerks have gone after my Florida cerith snails. The scarlet leg hermits seem to be better tankmates. The blue leg punks also have no respect for my zoas, crawling all over them. Little jerks are heading to the sump in the near future.
Positives -
Pitho crabs! I picked up a couple of these little dudes last week and man are they algae munching pigs So far they've not gone after any corals which is a huge relief after the experiences I had with emerald and sally lightfoot crabs. Plus they're small enough that they don't creep out my wife..
My Alk/Ca levels are finally back where I'd like it to be at 8.1 - 8.2 thanks to the all in one All-for-reef mix. So easy a caveman can do it along with a Hanna checker. Eventually I think I'll get a doser, but for now its not too much of an inconvenience to manually dose before bed. The corals are looking much happier and seeing a lot more corraline algae popping up.
Cleaned the wet sides of my MP10's yesterday. Tons of GHA removed. I couldn't believe how much it was affecting their performance! Might need to actually dial them back a bit. I'm thinking about actually adding a third one though on the bottom of the back glass to hit some dead spots.
In progress -
Still fighting the GHA/turf algae. I've been slacking a bit on the manual removal because who the hell enjoys that lol. I've been focusing mainly on keeping the corals happy and removing what bits I can. I have some Flux Rx(Fluconazole) on standby, but I think I'll break out the Phosban reactor before taking that step.
I'll post some water parms after I do a full round of testing tonight. Life has just been getting in the way too much.
The foxface rabbit fish has settled in nicely after some skirmishes with the current residents. He actually got a small chunk taken out of his tail fin by someone/thing, but he seems to be no worse for it.
Regrets -
Adding those blue legged hermits. Even with some empty shells thrown in, those murderous little jerks have gone after my Florida cerith snails. The scarlet leg hermits seem to be better tankmates. The blue leg punks also have no respect for my zoas, crawling all over them. Little jerks are heading to the sump in the near future.
Positives -
Pitho crabs! I picked up a couple of these little dudes last week and man are they algae munching pigs So far they've not gone after any corals which is a huge relief after the experiences I had with emerald and sally lightfoot crabs. Plus they're small enough that they don't creep out my wife..
My Alk/Ca levels are finally back where I'd like it to be at 8.1 - 8.2 thanks to the all in one All-for-reef mix. So easy a caveman can do it along with a Hanna checker. Eventually I think I'll get a doser, but for now its not too much of an inconvenience to manually dose before bed. The corals are looking much happier and seeing a lot more corraline algae popping up.
Cleaned the wet sides of my MP10's yesterday. Tons of GHA removed. I couldn't believe how much it was affecting their performance! Might need to actually dial them back a bit. I'm thinking about actually adding a third one though on the bottom of the back glass to hit some dead spots.
In progress -
Still fighting the GHA/turf algae. I've been slacking a bit on the manual removal because who the hell enjoys that lol. I've been focusing mainly on keeping the corals happy and removing what bits I can. I have some Flux Rx(Fluconazole) on standby, but I think I'll break out the Phosban reactor before taking that step.
I'll post some water parms after I do a full round of testing tonight. Life has just been getting in the way too much.
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