Christy's Reef

So here is a recent pic of the tank with all the new frags. Sorry about the quality, I just haven't had time to put into taking a really great picture. I'll have to get on that though.

Algae update: seems to be film algae, brownish but mostly grows on the glass and powerheads and junk. Comes off easy enough. As long as it isn't caulerpa or dinos I'm a happy camper ;)

I totally forgot to post pics of my new goby in my last post. Its a masked goby from Florida. Pretty neat little fish. It isn't much into coming out into the open but hangs out in the back left hand corner of the tank near the bottom of the overflow. As you can see from the tank pic I've had to put some green mesh on the overflow as the first night I got him he went over and hung out in the overflow until I could get him out. It took me an hour, I had to take the lighting hood off the tank and it was not fun. Suffice it to say, I'd rather see the green in there than no goby.

Of course with all the screwing around to get the goby out and put in the new frags and such, the regal has ick. Lucky me, because ick is the gift that keeps on giving, so the scopas has it too (although I must be on the downside of it because I don't notice as many white specks on him tonight and less on the regal, maybe its working!!). Lovely. I don't see it on anyone else though, not on their bodies anyways, maybe they have some on their pectoral fins (seems a favorite spot for ick to hang out). I haven't had an ick problem in ages and am once again poring through all the webpages on how to combat it. I'm feeding Kents Garlic Extreme. This is one product where the use of "extreme" is correct. Man that is one stinky product. Peeyew! But its working so who cares about the smell ;) Last time I had this problem (I can't remember when, either early last year or in 2003) I had my little sharknose gobies to help me out, of course they got ick themselves (nobody to eat it off them) but they were such piggies the garlic did the trick in no time. Maybe I can find some of those, although I hesitate to add any more fish in an icky situation even if they are going to solve the problem. I guess it will depend on their availability.