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what a coincidence. we had a frag swap today as well! san antonio. frag swaps are awesome, one of the great things about this hobby, don't you think. i picked up a reef raft nauti spiral. sweet monti.
 
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Yes I enjoy them greatly. Got a pic of the monti? i ccan't wait to take some pics tomotrow:)
 

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hoping to catch a pic of it tomorrow as well. i'll share it here you when i do.
 
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Sone new frags :)
Finally got real green frogspawn!!!
Green digi to go with my red and purple
I think this is gatorade birds nest
Green slimer on right and unknown on left
Orange setosa above my pink. Difference is more obvious in person.

And some current tank shots.

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Loving the FTS. Here's a pic of the nauti spiral i picked up at the swap. Hard to catch the glow in this thing.
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Definitely a different approach to a tank than most..... I like it:)
 
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I'm a bit upset. My two large feather dusters are always out. Been in my tank for ever. The past two weeks I have not seen them at all. I don't know why. Everything else seems fine. I hope they're ok. :-( first pic has one on the left and one on the far right.

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Okay so here is the update. Tank lights begin to come on at 11 a.m. Ramp up until about 5 p.m. and then start ramping down from 7 to about 11. Temperature has been hovering between 80 and 81 degrees. Scraping the glass once per week. Adding about 70 milliliters of both calcium and alk BRS two part daily. Adjust magnesium once a month roughly, more accurately when the alkalinity and calcium run out. add about 5 milliliters or 1 capful of iron and about 6 drops of iodine monthly. Top off a little under two gallons per day of RO water.I hatch brine shrimp every two days. Feeding live brine through a slow feeder everyday. I use tank water for the process of hatching and collecting brine. Therefore I must add roughly 2 cups of salt to the RO water per month in order to keep tank level. I also feed a variety of other foods randomly including a frozen slurry, flake and pellet food, nori, live black worms. As well as every other night two scoops of Reef chili for my nighttime corals. Mainly the Acans, favia, candy canes and micromusa. Parameters are almost always as follows.Nitrate 0, phos 0, sg 1.026, alk 10.5, calc 430, mag 1300, ph 8.2. Almost everything in the tank has been doing spectacular. A few exceptions. My green bubble tip anemone has been getting worse. I thought that it may have been due tomy nem crab that hosted it. I removed the crab and put it in my fuge about a week ago. the anemone appears to be doing a little better although I am not convinced yet. My acans are still struggling but I believe the night feedings are helping a bit. And my Darth Maul zoas are being crowded out by my King Midas. I am trying to frag the mauls in order to save them. Still incredibly overwhelmed and excited with how well my tank is doing. Could not be happier. Almost forgot, the red zoa or pallys that I got from karl have all fallen apart and gotten lost in the tank. I had high hopes for them and AM a bit upset by this. But I suppose you can't win them all.

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Made a new base for my zoa garden. Love how it looks. Some new pics. :)

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Still losing my Coraline to a mysterious red turf type algae. One of my two feather dusters has returned to opening at night. Some of its feathers appear to have been burnt or something. The other duster still has not come back out. My ked reds have not opened since I put in the new zoa garden. All the other zoas are open and fine. My keds were the best growers and I am confused as to what has them upset. My pearl bubble and elegance corals are getting so big they are stinging everything around them including each other. Really need the house so we can upgrade. LolEverything else seems to be doing fine.

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Cleaned up the fuge again. Also clipped mycaps again. Accidently broke my orange one which is the slowest grower. :-( but it will recover.

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Went to a boston reefers meeting yesterday. Got some sweet clean up crew prices. Won 3 polyp purple "protopaly" frag and a tyree orange rainbow polyp in the raffles. And bought a blueberry sps for $15. Awsome.
5 huge mexican turbos for $5
10 astreas $8
30 tapastry nerites for $12
2 pepermints for $8
2 skunk cleaners for $20

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