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September 18, 2024 pt. 2

September 18, 2024 Nudibranchs Obviously, it was wrong of me to declare victory over the nudis so quickly. I checked diligently at night for two weeks and didn’t see anything, so I stopped. Maybe a month after that, I noticed a few at night again. The coral was visibly fine. Maybe the...

June 4, 2024 Anacoropora and Nudibranchs After my last post, I realized that monti eating nudibranchs also attack the anacropora. I had even seen one on the anacropora before. I didn't think anything of it. I’d seen them in other places before, like on the glass. Once I made the connection...

May 30, 2024, pt.2 Pics of when I got back May 22, 2024, after two months. The tank definitely looks better irl. Seems like cell phones still aren't great at these types of pictures.

May 30, 2024, pt.1 TLDR; Tank is almost one year old. The torch is dying. Giving up on the plating montipora for now. Fewer, bigger corals in year 2. The tank is approaching one year. I went out of town twice and had total novices take care of the tank. The first time was for about six or...

October 20, 2023 I borrowed the club’s PAR meter. Obviously, I do not have the light mounted in the way the manufacturer prescribes. The gooseneck wants to pull away from the aquarium. I can’t pull it any closer. Nearly all tanks have the lights perpendicular, but the bookshelf here prevents...

Free plating orange monti cap. I have a really small tank and I no longer love the spot it's in. It also got a little beat up by a neighboring chalice. ~3"x2" Warning: I think some nudibranchs may have munched on it, although I'm admittedly not qualified to make that determination. I left for...

Inputs at this point are only for the blood shrimp. About 10 "small" pellets about every other day. I try not to feed it more than it can eat in a sitting. I'm not doing AB+ or phyto right now. There's usually a lag between my posts and the present (e.g. this post was written a few weeks ago)...

October 13, 2023 I picked up a Cali Tort at Hide Tide Aquatics. They had a really nice Walt Disney acro that I nearly got. Although it looked nice in the blue lights, it wasn’t quite as striking in the white light. My partner prefers the white light so I have a long stretch in the middle of the...

You are definitely right. Hadn't heard of those.

I'll definitely keep those in mind if I do end up changing the flow. They really are! It might be more cramped than it looks, but you're probably right I could squeeze one more in. I'm a little tempted to grow out a scoly, RFA, or something like that on the bottom right side.

October 4, 2023 I added a kryptonite trumpet / candy cane coral. This was the star of my last tank many years ago. I love that they’re still around. Even though they’re common, I’m excited to have one again. I mounted it in a recess in the center. I know they grow fast, but either I’ll prune it...

@phc567 scooped it. Enjoy!

RRC Pink Cadillac acropora frag. Got it from Cultivated Reef. Wanted to see how it did in my little tank. It did fine, so now I want to free up that spot for something different. In downtown Oakland.

That’s a very good point about the mixed reef. It is hard to keep everyone happy, especially in such a confined space. I count myself lucky that everything has worked out as well as it has so far. I hadn’t heard of those Jabao powerheads, but it seems like people like them. I can stomach the...

Flow I’ve become very tempted to mess with the flow. Having an acro in the tank is making me want to tinker with things, which seems like a bad impulse. The other factor is the Tunze 6040 is louder than I would like. This is especially true when it’s in pulse mode where the tone switches from...

Dang I wish I knew. Those are really nice. I wish I had room for another one! I really like mine. I'm surprised they aren't more popular. Every tank should have one.

September 17, 2023 No major changes. The pho4 is low, so I stopped using AB+ and increased the phyto to three drops per week. Will monitor and adjust. Not sure what I’m targeting, but over the past couple weeks a gallon water change every five days seems to take it from 0.04 to 0.01. I'm...

August 25, 2023 I was at High Tide in Oakland getting water and I finally asked about a wait list for a bright yellow coral that I had been really impressed with ever since the first time I went there. Kenny said there wasn’t one, but then he offered to cut me a $40 frag! I was pretty excited...

August 22, 2023 I bought some corals online. I got stuck in a cycle of shopping for expensive chalices, but balked at spending that much money on something I haven't seen before. I felt like I had to break the fever. I ended up getting some zoas, a tyree red watermelon chalice, a rock flower...