Well no more intense boredom for me. I finally found a job and it keeps me busy and unfortunately away from my tank during the week. Weekends consist of racing around do to tank maintenance and water changes but thats about it. My roommate is master fish feeder extraordinaire and tops up my "auto" top-off system when needed (usually it holds on for the week though).
The tank is actually faring quite well without me and does better without my constant fiddling with it. The one time I did fiddle was to treat the tank with excess interceptor to kill the damned crab that has eaten a goodly portion of my sps. I forgot to turn off the calcium reactor and it drained about 10g from my tank into the sump, which promptly overflowed onto the floor and left 2 colonies and all my frags that I had placed in a frag rack, dry and exposed to the halides. Fun times. All of the frags died but the two colonies that were affected included my very hardy porites which is making a comeback and my yellowy pocilipora which half died but it attempting a comeback. Both are amazing coral to watch come back from such a disaster. Its really quite neat to watch.
So I actually think I killed the damned thing although one never knows about these things. I did find a rather large dead crab but I can never tell if its the moult or the crab itself. Suffice it to say I haven't seen any more damage to my acros lately, but the little "home" that I assume a crab is living in is constantly being reformed after I move all its little parts. Basically, any rubble at the bottom of the tank is constantly being dragged into the center of the tank and under the base rocks at the bottom of the tank. This includes larger rocks and coral bits. Every week just for fun I displace almost all of them, only to find the next weekend the majority of them are back in the little hidey hole. I really can't attribute this to current.
So the tank is looking pretty good these days, things are coloring up and actually growing. You can see in the photo, quite a few corals took a hit. I lost both my beautful yellow acros :( and a couple of the nicer blues and pink millis. Sometimes this hobby really sucks. On the bright side one of the LFS near my work has some really sweet stuff in, so I may get a couple frags to fill in the holes :P
The nano is faring well, I think I have a couple of bristle worms that are doing a lovely job of eating the nicer zoo colones. I also added a colony last week that had 4 sundial snails on it, so both that colony and the sundials are no more. I also discovered flatworms in the tank but haven't had time to treat them. THey don't seem to be too threatening anyways, they just seem to eat the algae off the acrylic. They aren't in any great numbers nor are they making a dent in the algae. Other than the rapidly growing caulerpa and red fuzz algae growing in the tank, it seems to be holding its own. No pics though, I bought some more rock for it so that will be my Christmas Holiday project, five it some revamping, dip a few colonies and get eveyrone back in order.
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