The RBTA looks better and more colorful each day. I took a video about 20 minutes after the lights went out for the night.
The first night, as soon as the lights went out, the anemone kept opening and closing until the lights came back on.The second and third night it closed up the moment the lights went out and stayed that way until the lights were on again. Tonight the RBTA was still open 20 minutes after the lights went out.
The duncans’ 2 baby polyps both have some tentacles now. They’re basically stubs now but within a few weeks they’ll be longer and more numerous.
I’ve been dosing LaCl for the last 3 days including today. I’ve dropped phosphates a total of 0.16 ppm in that time including today. My phosphates just got way too high. Even though my checker shows lower levels of phosphates there’s plenty still in the rock. The reality is that my phosphates were likely north of 0.25 ppm. Considering how quickly algae was growing on the glass each day I know my phosphates were higher than the checker could detect. The algae was consuming it all. I’m going to quit dosing it because I do want SOME phosphates. I like to be around 0.07 ppm to 0.1 ppm. I’ll need more phosphates when I get more corals but until then I want to keep phosphates close to the above range.
Starting at 11 PM last night I made 4 buckets of RO/DI. I dumped the first bucket worth and then made another bucket which I used to top off the system. After that I made 3 more buckets worth. I finished at 7:30 this morning. I’m going to make more RO/DI tomorrow and get salt mixing because I’m doing a 25% water change. Now that I have my own RO/DI system I’m going to do a 25% water change at least once every 2 weeks.
