It's been about a month since I've posted, so here's the latest...
Flame wrasse are doing great; eating well, out and about more and more, really striking colors. I love it when the male flares up. They love to eat and let me know when it's not enough. I held a frozen cube of brine shrimp at the waters surface, and the male would come up and strike the cube in my fingers.
I have three or four aptasia now, which really make me second guess the start with dry rock, but oh well. At this point, I really don't think anyone can really control what ends up in their tank, no matter how diligent one is with their precautions.
I was surprised to see a tiny nudibranch, about 1/4" long, on my glass yesterday. I quickly syphoned it out and put in a small glass vile. No good picture, but it's tan/gray, and I'm not taking any chances with it. I've also been naively picking out small dark asterina stars as I see them.
I've lost the three birds nests I had. It was either an alk swing, or, complete mystery to me what happened. Everything else is going gangbusters, including my green monti cap and a small green acro frag I have.
Going to pick up a couple peppermint shrimp this weekend. I have my first Ca reactor re-fill this weekend as well - the media level has dropped by more then half, and, there seems to be a lot of "mud" developing.
Have quite a bit of cyano taking over my refugium. Installed the new little Ehiem surface skimmer in the fuge, to try an both skim and increase water movement, but it does not really move much water. Going to replace by GFO as well, but am reluctant as when I first installed the GFO it took the color out of my monti.
Lots going on, nothing terrible or overly concerning. Please feel free to offer up advice.
