My lamp broke, I'm waiting for the replacement to arrive. So enjoy temporary warm plant lights)
Tank thrives, but out of 5 species of macroalgae only 3 are not dying. These are Gracillaria, Chaetomorpha and Caulerpa lentilifera. Caulerpa taxifolia decided to die almost completely, only few patches left. Dragon's breath was slowly dying this whole time, so i ripped what was left from the rock and had thrown it in crevise on the left, between anthelia and xenia. When i started dosing seachem flourish and CaNO3 the 3 algaes took off, others just stayed as is. Gracillaria, which was an inch long piece is now a few little bushes i fragged, and i hope it will fill the niche of red algae, that dragon's breath occupied. Lentilifera has 2 distinct populations. First is on the left, looks like a chaeto, but lighter and edible. For whatever reason did not grow it's spheres back. Another population is on the central goby rock, looks good. It strated from one piece of original algae that had spheres on it. Chaeto i thought i eradicated, but it spread through spores and started growing everywhere, plus i had a few broken branches. When i did a rescape, i collected all chaeto, and instead of throwing away decided to keep it. It is now in the back left corner, where it was originally.
Fish are doing ok. Clown goby named (if translated roughly) Fat Yolk thrives, blenny Microelement is doing ok, but he has some weird bump on the belly, that i thought would kill him. It has gone 1 month already and he doesn't care and still lives and active. Wheeler's goby is not afraid of me anymore, which is good, but i still need to spot feed him, because he is as dumb as a rock he lives under. I call him Grandma Wheel, because i did found out that goby in polish is the same word as for elderly woman/granny.
Inverts are ok. The boom of munnid isopods stopped when i started cleaning the glass, now when i stopped because of laziness, their niche is occupied by pods, which is better, cause they do not climb out of the fish's mouth and my babies can eat them whenever. Dove snails are not overtaking, but thriving. Same for dwarf turbo snails, there are 2 adults and a lot of babies. There were only babies because i got rid of adults in though that they eat macroalgae. In short, they don't, because the person i bought algae from keeps them with algae, and there are like hundreds of them. And my algae did not feel any difference when i removed the adults. Conch is living. I can't say anything about him, because he is dumb. But at least he is not dead now, so I don't think he will any time soon. As i read, they either die in the first 6 months, or live indefinitely. Pistol shrimp exists, sometimes levitates near the goby, when he is out and makes noises at night.... It eats... Something... Maybe... I don't know... Blue hermit crab i got is stupid, because once a month he likes to find a new shell and starts to hump it with loud knocking sounds that drive me mad. And he bulldoses the rockwork at night and at day sleeps in a cave. Cool critter. Bumblebee snail, the first animal in the tank, still lives. Same for brittle stars and bristle worms, the latter can now challenge some medium sized anacondas.
Corals are thriving, anthelia and xenia are battling for space on the left rock and anthelia is winning. Yellow polyps are now a small but colourful colony. Even some of zoanthids recovered and i have like 12 of them now in a crevise. I also have 2 other color morphs of them on a piece of ceramic, but they still did not recover. I do not remember if i posted something about gorgons here, but they did not grow, something took a piece of flesh from them, and because the frags were so tiny and poorly fragged i just scraped them off and siphoned with a waterchange. Also i have a bit of small aiptasia, but I don't care.
All in all i left the tank alone and it thanked me with it's vibrance. Because of poor light i have i use sunlight as an additive and it reminds me of wild black sea, where i was catching blennies a year ago...
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