I've been working really nasty hours so I haven't had much time for updates. I'm off for the next 3 days. I'll try to get some new pics. The surviving helfrichi firefish has made it into the display. I ordered a bonded pair of Yasha gobies from DD, but that didn't work out well. They came with a pistol shrimp. When I received the order I had 2 empty bags of water and 1 bag with a single Yasha goby which didn't make it for long in QT. At this point I'm no longer willing to deal with LA. I don't normally like to ship fish and have always tried to stick to local. Fintastic is still shutdown and no idea when they will be reopening. Nemo's Reef is a little bit of a ride, but seemed like a decent place. So, I'm thinking about venturing out to Nemo's reef to see if they have anything on my fish list. For now, other than a LFS about an hour away that's my only choice for local. I need to find a good source for fish. In the meantime, tank is still seeing some diatoms, but that's all part of the maturing process.
I did lose my salinity probe last week for a few days. Then it started working ok again, I already have a replacement, but I haven't had a chance to swap it and callibrate the new one. I plan to do this within the next 2 days. Other than that tanks has been stable. Chaeto in the fuge didn't seem to grow so well, but the gracillaria seems to be doing fine. With that said I've started dosing a little iron to see if that improves.
Still monitoring for hitchhikers... so far I've pulled out a few gorilla crabs and welchs I missed when I got the rock. Removed the starfish and urchins. These are purple long spine urchins which will get way too big for my cube. They're in another tank for now. Two of the starfish were removed for munching on gorgs.
I'll try to get some updated pics soon.
