Day 109
Tank has stayed unremarkable (in a good way). Water parameters have been pretty stable. Alk stays in the low-to-mid 9s throughout the day, CA around 420, Mg at 1380, pH typically in 8.15-8.3 range. Nitrates & phosphates are undetectable by API & Hanna, but it's there because I'm getting hair algae and cheato growth in the fuge. Interestingly enough, I figured I would have seen some sizable coralline algae growth on the rocks/glass by now, but I only see it on snail shells and euphyilla skeletons with some very tiny spattering on rocks. Maybe my urchin sniffs it out and nips it in the bud. Nothing to report on bio-pellets yet except that they're still tumbling, not clogging up the reactor screen with biofilm and have not done anything bad like cloud the water from a bacteria bloom.
Coral are growing well on everything except the sticks - the judgement is still pending on those. I'm pretty sure it was too much lighting initially that was the problem for me as the few pieces that were bleaching have stopped and seem to have improved very slightly. Those that weren't bleaching seem to have started some growth around the mount point. No new fish for now, but I added a few new corals - Cali Tort, light lavender/blue tipped millepora, orange monti cap, sunny d zoas, and mohawk zoas.
Some new pictures to share:
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I've got babies! Banded trochus snail babies! If they live long enough and grow big enough, I may be having some snails to get rid of in the near future. Don't know how many, but I count at least 20 in sump and fuge.
Sunny D Zoas (Taken under 7500K and color is not as "sunny d orange" as they are in person. 20,000K setting on LEDs wasn't playing well with my camera and the zoa for some reason).
Mohawk Zoas. Growing well. have 6 polyps from 3 after 3-4 weeks in the tank. (Thanks
@Calde0920)
A new millepora - my first mille was one of the partially bleached sticks that I'm hoping will recover. Got this one to make me feel better about other sticks.
Getting some good growth on this space invader chalice. It's probably doubled eye count and gone from 1/2"-3/4" or so in diameter to 1 1/4".
Rainbow BTA still isn't inflating all the way and some of the tentacles still don't inflate at all, but it has at least stopped moving around for almost 4 weeks now.
Ducan coral is doing well, but for some reason doesn't seem to have the insane growth it did in my 12G Fluval Edge. I do notice that my cleaner shrimp tend to bug this coral and the BTA the most (or at least I catch them the most doing so). Hope that's not the reason why.
This neon green candy cane came from the frag swap with two heads. It's splitting into 5 at the moment.
Meteor shower cyphastrea has developed more new polyps than I want to count on the original frag and is encrusting the surrounding rock.
