Looking good David! I do like the rock work, especially the flat island. It also looks like you will have a lot of room for fish to swim. That's the one thing I've always liked about your tank is the fish.
Aaaaaargh! Going through the new tank uglies. I hate diatom blooms. Clean up crew is trying but they reproduce so fast they aren't making any headway. Fortunately that works to our advantage and hopefully all the available silica will be used up pretty soon. No real algae problem yet. Alk 8.1 (keeping it a little low since nutrients are very low), Calcium 435, NO3 0.5, PO4 )0.02, Mag 1385. All frags glued down now since my turbos and astreas are mini bulldozers.
TTM tanks set up ....you know what that means?! Fish on the way. Quite a few actually. Yasha's goby and an Exquisite Firefish for the IM10. Labouti Fairy wrasse, blue throated sail fin fairy wrasse (new species not yet named), Yellow Fin Flasher wrasse and a Yellow Watchman Goby for the 155. Pictures when they arrive.
QT pics of the two new wrasse. The Blue throat is a no go....after further research it's in the complex with the most aggressive of fairy wrasse. Substituting a flame wrasse for him. Wrasse are nightmares to photograph...never still. Yellow Fin Flasher Labout's wrasse
Doing some maintenance this afternoon and noticed a small buggar of green pocillipora smack dab in the middle of my BamBam zoa colony! I was able to pop the original frag off of the plug and DESTROY the pocillipora colony. Lost a few polyps but there were several left on the plug and I'm gonna let it grow out and either frag it or raffle it at a club meeting.
Things are getting more stable and colors starting to come back. May have broken my acan jinx. This is the club coral acan from Nov, you can see the cut edges have filled in(area of lighter color).
The wrasses are settling in nicely and getting fat. This morning was the next to last transfer. On Friday they go to the cycled QT to be treated with Prazipro and observed for at least a couple more weeks. Click full screen! <iframe width="560" height="315" src="" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I keep saying I need to slow down on the restocking and people keep putting hard to find fish that I want at great prices. This guy arrives tomorrow.
