Perseverance Reef

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Well my nitrates are at 47 ppm. A water change is incoming soon.

The Nannochloropsis culture is doing nicely.

This image was taken Saturday night.

This one was taken tonight.

Another day or two and it’ll be ready for harvest. I’m going to start a second jar once the culture is ready. There’s 32 oz in the jar right now. That’ll be enough to put some back to dose for a week and to start two separate cultures, filled to the 64 oz mark.

Either tomorrow or Thursday I’ll be going to a different LFS than the ones I usually go to. I’m going to buy some fish most likely, and a Nardoa starfish or two if they have them. If they have any beginner acros for a decent price, I’ll get one.

Right now though my priorities are finding a diamond goby, maybe a yellow watchman goby and pistol shrimp combo. If they have them, a sea cucumber or two. Almost anything that’ll turn the sand bed over.

I’d go for a sand sifting starfish if I thought there was a reasonable chance they’d do well. My display has the footprint of a 300 gallon tank so there’s a chance it’d thrive, but a low enough one that I don’t want to risk it. Then again I haven’t researched them in a while. It might well be that there are reefers who have cracked the code with these guys. Maybe there’s a way to add food into the sand bed such that the starfish wouldn’t starve. I’m going to look that up tonight. If it’s still a bad idea I won’t push it.

 

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I finally went to the LFS I mentioned in an earlier post. They had a few things I was looking for. I bought two feather dusters. One appears to be a Hawaiian feather duster. The other is the size of a Hawaiian feather duster, but it’s almost uniformly brown with a slight tint of red to it. They also had Bali Green Slimer frags and a few small Pocillopora frags. I came home with one of each.

The worms are doing great, and they’ll have plenty of food in my system. As for the corals, I got them both glued down. The Pocillopora is wide open. My Green Slimer is partially open. All its polyps are partially out. Both corals are glued to the same rock. It’s a decent sized rock so I don’t anticipate them getting too close for comfort anytime soon.

Sadly they were out of diamond gobies. They had a Golden Head sand sifting goby but it was overpriced. Still, I wanted a couple of feather duster worms. The Green Slimer and Pocillopora are beautiful!

I’ll get some good pictures tomorrow and post them.