Time keeps on ticking, ticking, ticking....
So there's been a a few interesting side effects to this fallow time.
One is that I think about what is going into the tanks with care and I'm in no hurry to "fill'er up" any longer. Smart choices. Think first. I have my lists in One Note for each of the 3 tanks and aside from trying to figure out what I can put in the 20g for CUC, I think I have a pretty good plan for them.
My husband is pushing me to budget the spending. He has a point, I did go a little crazy. There are other things I need to take care of, such as getting the floor in my studio done and my kiln wired in so that I can produce enough pottery to sell so I can buy more coral and a bigger aquariums!!! *evil, maniacal laugh* Oh yea, I guess I should plan for the vegetable garden this year, too. hehe. But he's got his piggy bank that he's been socking away a dollar here and dollar there so he can buy his blue dot jawfish in April. While I crazily look at everything and yell "I want this and I want that...ooooh, and this shiny right here!" LOL
Oddly, with a little more than 3 weeks before the fallow is over, my 29g appears to be sporting cyanobacteria. Why??? What did I do? Sure, I have to feed the nassarius snail (never did name it, weird, so unlike me), Scuttlebutt and Sandy Claws, but I honestly keep it to the bare minimum, a tiny amount for each of them. When I feed the two anemones I only give them a tiny bit of shrimp or clam once, maybe twice, a week and I make sure that *everyone* eats every bit of food. I can always tell when it's time to feed the tanks because in the 29g the Sandy Claws, the peppermint shrimp, comes out and is stalking around looking for food and in the 55g the bristleworms come out and appear to be looking for something to eat. I only feed enough for the nassarius in the 55g though. The cyano is ebbing away in that aquarium. Very little compared to what it was a month ago.
Speaking of the anemones. I think I have a problem. My sweet little lavender condylactis, Delores, may have to go. She has grown so much that she's making it difficult to have anything else in the tank with her. I've moved the Rasta zoas away from her and the other two zoas. I'm pretty sure she killed my bird's nest and now she's moved down to threaten my leathers. If she touches my green mushrooms I'll be super peeved. I don't care if she zaps the palys, but on the side of their rock I have some zoas that mysteriously popped up that I'd like to keep. I hate to see her go, but this is ridiculous. In the last 3 months she's quadrupled in size. Can I get my green/purple BTA in the 55g to grow, heck no. But the condy and pink BTA in the 29g are going bananas.
About the time that the fallow ends, the corals that are in quarantine will also be ready. Actually they'll be ready in a little more than 2 weeks, but an extra week isn't going to hurt. I have to decide if I'm going to get a new light set up for the 55g though. I have a full set of halides that came with the aquarium when I bought it, but I replaced it with LEDs. Trouble is I'm not sure if I made a mistake and got the wrong LEDs, I cannot find my order on
Amazon so that I can check and the invoice has also disappeared. So if the corals start looking poorly I'll set up the halides while I find an affordable strip of LEDs.
My 20g is going through the ugly brown stage. Ugh. I need to take a picture when the day lights are on so that I can post it to my "build thread".
Is it wrong that I can't hardly wait until I just have the 3 aquariums going instead of the 3 plus 3 QTs? Ok, the 10g coral QT will probably never be dry, but hey, it still won't be like it is now. I'm so tired. I work my 12 hours and then spend an hour observing each tank for at least 10 minutes, feeding whoever's turn it is to be fed, checking water levels and topping off if needed. Weekends are all 6 water changes, clean out skimmers and check filters.
BTW, I got an idea for alteration on my sump. But I'm too tired to go into it right now.
Goodnight R2R.
Just keep swimming.
