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6/23/24 Just an update. Tank is still doing well. I added 3 pincushion urchins and they are doing a good job on the rock.
Phosphates are starting to come down. 0.27 last sunday and 0.11 today. I'm glad @Stang67 early on advised to let PO4 level out on its own vs trying to lower them at that time. NO3 9.8 down a bit from 12.1 but at a level I'm comfy with. I'm still dosing 3ml of bacto balance daily and 12 drops zeobac and 30ml MB7 biweekly. Scrubber is still working well. I brought a rock with a couple coral on it over from my reefer 170 that had some GHA on it and am curious to see if it thrives, dies or gets consumed. This was in the 170
I brought my yellow banded possum wrasse over and he plays possum
Not sure if I mentioned it but I added a small six line a while back for pest control. It stays on the opposite end so I'm hoping the two will be ok in a larger tank.
Tank video
My reefer 300 is doing OK. Sticks are growing slowly but I'll take slow growth over RTN or STN any day. Ignore the bone white acropora on the rack. It's a newly discovered species I'm trying to grow out.
I've been wanting to pull the one rock posted above out of my 170 for a while but my blue haddoni was attached to the rock and the glass. I came in the other eve and saw it had moved to the opposite end so I made my move. Tank has been a mess with GHA all over. I took all the rock out and sprayed scrubbed and sprayed it with peroxide. I also did some scrubbing. I pulled an old piece of rock from my stock tank that has a suffering monticap and blueridge and added it. Hopefully the coral will come back. If not at least it'll add some bio diversity.
I had sand seeding in the 330 sump so I added that as well. The nem is enjoying having sand. Wonder how long the sand will stay white? I can never keep sand looking clean.
It was later in the eve but I wasn't going to wait and have the nem move back. Momma fell asleep on the couch waiting for me to finish.
I put my coral beauty in the 300 but my bristle tooth went ballistic on it so I had to put it back in the 170 Tank afterwards
I found a male CBB and my current one is female so I bought it and have hopes of a pair in the 330. It had only been in the store 2 days but looked healthy, no pinched head or indication of malnutrition and was pecking at all the rock. The store had one already eating but wanted $150 and this one was $80 so I took a chance.
I don't think he'll starve in here. Probably won't ever get hungry enough to eat frozen either lol.
That's it for now. Thanks for stopping by.
Phosphates are starting to come down. 0.27 last sunday and 0.11 today. I'm glad @Stang67 early on advised to let PO4 level out on its own vs trying to lower them at that time. NO3 9.8 down a bit from 12.1 but at a level I'm comfy with. I'm still dosing 3ml of bacto balance daily and 12 drops zeobac and 30ml MB7 biweekly. Scrubber is still working well. I brought a rock with a couple coral on it over from my reefer 170 that had some GHA on it and am curious to see if it thrives, dies or gets consumed. This was in the 170
I brought my yellow banded possum wrasse over and he plays possum
Not sure if I mentioned it but I added a small six line a while back for pest control. It stays on the opposite end so I'm hoping the two will be ok in a larger tank.
Tank video
My reefer 300 is doing OK. Sticks are growing slowly but I'll take slow growth over RTN or STN any day. Ignore the bone white acropora on the rack. It's a newly discovered species I'm trying to grow out.
I've been wanting to pull the one rock posted above out of my 170 for a while but my blue haddoni was attached to the rock and the glass. I came in the other eve and saw it had moved to the opposite end so I made my move. Tank has been a mess with GHA all over. I took all the rock out and sprayed scrubbed and sprayed it with peroxide. I also did some scrubbing. I pulled an old piece of rock from my stock tank that has a suffering monticap and blueridge and added it. Hopefully the coral will come back. If not at least it'll add some bio diversity.
I had sand seeding in the 330 sump so I added that as well. The nem is enjoying having sand. Wonder how long the sand will stay white? I can never keep sand looking clean.
It was later in the eve but I wasn't going to wait and have the nem move back. Momma fell asleep on the couch waiting for me to finish.
I put my coral beauty in the 300 but my bristle tooth went ballistic on it so I had to put it back in the 170 Tank afterwards
I found a male CBB and my current one is female so I bought it and have hopes of a pair in the 330. It had only been in the store 2 days but looked healthy, no pinched head or indication of malnutrition and was pecking at all the rock. The store had one already eating but wanted $150 and this one was $80 so I took a chance.
I don't think he'll starve in here. Probably won't ever get hungry enough to eat frozen either lol.
That's it for now. Thanks for stopping by.
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. Since we built our home we've raised several litters of baby racoons, a baby quail, a baby sparrow named turd bird, a litter of red squirrels, had green herons nest in our trees in the front yard and got to watch the babies learn to fly by jumping up to the higher branches while flapping their wings. This however is the highlight. The valley behind our house flooded a few years back and drove this family to higher ground. They took occupation of the ground hog mound behind my shop. They stayed for a few weeks then left. I'm not a videographer and most of this was shot from our bedroom window through screen. If you've made it this far I hope you get a bit of pleasure from watching. 
