Livestock Update
All fish (yellow tang, 3 green chromis and mandarin) seem to be doing fine. My wife says the little mandarin is larger now. Tang is nicely yellow. Looks just as I remember the wild one I had years ago.
All corals also seem good, with no apparent issues.
I expect that with the existing large milka stylophora and the two SPS frags (
WWC Slimeball anacropora and either Bubblegum or Forest Fire digitata) , and a bunch more hard corals coming Wednesday from
TSA (ORA cherry Red goniopora, oregon blue tort,
TSA blood red leptoseris, Red sentosa montipora), alk demand is going to tick up and at some point soon I'll start AFR.
I haven't measured alk yet, but will later today. Reef2Reef member exnisstech gave me a
BRS 1.1 ml per min doser and timer that he was not using (
Thanks, exnisstech!). I'll set it up to begin dosing AFR when needed.
On the down side, there's a too much brownish algae growing on some of the rocks. Probably diatoms from the silicate and nutrient dosing to beat back the possible dinos, although I did not try to identify it. The
TSA order has 7 trochus snails in it that may help with that. I also have a bunch of macroalgae coming in the Gulf Coast Ecosystems order to beef up the refugium. Ulva is one of them, which I will also hope to use to feed the tang after it grows out in the refugium.
FWIW, the refugium has a thin layer of green algae growing on the egg crate, and thats where the new macro will help fill up. No sign of the dino-type stuff there now, which is where it was bad before.
Tank lights have been raised to 39% intensity all channels.
