Maunty
Community Member
I share a tank with my father, and he has been helping take care of it since I have been away at university but I want to monitor the growth of everything. Since he sees the tank every day he does not think the corals are growing but I want to show him how much progress we have made since we first set up the tank in the summer sometime. The inhabitants were added early August unfortunately I do not have a full tank picture from that time but I have some type of picture.
August 10th 2024: Nassarius Snail spotted, Diatom bloom
December 15th 2024: ugly stage but parameters stabilizing, Dad was waiting for me to get back from fall semester to try coral I also had wanted to add more rocks because it was very bland. This tank has tested my patience very much as every thing we do takes weeks or even months before we make a change. Helps that I’m away at School.
December 21st 2024: Day after first coral was added, very scary for both of us because the corals looked nothing like they did when we bought them , and they were not opening. The green star polyp was mostly closed , and the finger leather was shriveled up . I had been nervous because the first coral I bought when I was 16, I’m 20 now, was a Xenia and it died within a week. I thought we were headed to the same path. But we waited patiently.
12/25/24: Corals were still not opened and a big algae bloom on the rock. But we persevered and remained patient.
2/12/25: dad had sent me a picture of the Green star polyp and it had opened, I’m pretty sure it had opened in early January this is just the earliest picture I have of it.
03/13/25: I am back from spring break and took an update picture , both corals opened but tank definitely needed some work, sand was kicked up from a recently introduced power head I assumed the tank needed more flow. I also wanted more rock
03/23/25: rocks added, deeper sand bed , finger leather coral moved , it broke off the thing it was attached to while I was trying to clean some sand off it since the flow was not reaching it. So we decided to put it on the new rock structure.
04/26/25: Tank has coral growing successfully and we have big plans for this summer that we are very excited for! GSP might actually attach to the rock it’s on soon, devils finger leather is starting to develop it’s first finger, and the zoanthids which were added in march are getting bigger, I don’t have a good picture when they were first added.
August 10th 2024: Nassarius Snail spotted, Diatom bloom
December 15th 2024: ugly stage but parameters stabilizing, Dad was waiting for me to get back from fall semester to try coral I also had wanted to add more rocks because it was very bland. This tank has tested my patience very much as every thing we do takes weeks or even months before we make a change. Helps that I’m away at School.
December 21st 2024: Day after first coral was added, very scary for both of us because the corals looked nothing like they did when we bought them , and they were not opening. The green star polyp was mostly closed , and the finger leather was shriveled up . I had been nervous because the first coral I bought when I was 16, I’m 20 now, was a Xenia and it died within a week. I thought we were headed to the same path. But we waited patiently.
12/25/24: Corals were still not opened and a big algae bloom on the rock. But we persevered and remained patient.
2/12/25: dad had sent me a picture of the Green star polyp and it had opened, I’m pretty sure it had opened in early January this is just the earliest picture I have of it.
03/13/25: I am back from spring break and took an update picture , both corals opened but tank definitely needed some work, sand was kicked up from a recently introduced power head I assumed the tank needed more flow. I also wanted more rock
03/23/25: rocks added, deeper sand bed , finger leather coral moved , it broke off the thing it was attached to while I was trying to clean some sand off it since the flow was not reaching it. So we decided to put it on the new rock structure.
04/26/25: Tank has coral growing successfully and we have big plans for this summer that we are very excited for! GSP might actually attach to the rock it’s on soon, devils finger leather is starting to develop it’s first finger, and the zoanthids which were added in march are getting bigger, I don’t have a good picture when they were first added.
