Christy's Reef

Man I am totally loving the new bulbs. They're so crispy white! I think the corals are liking it too as some of them are really responding well to the increased intensity and color temperature changes. Others are still crabbing along as usual with their polyps all tucked in. Those are my grumpy old men corals :p



So I use an easy blade on my mag float, its a razor blade attachment. Man I can't say enough good things about the easy blade, I just love it. It really enhances the mag float. Anyway, I managed to lose the little nut that ties the whole thing down to the blade part and ended up having to go to home depot and buy a plastic nut there, that just didn't get the job done. It never screwed on tight enough, and then when I wanted to take it apart it was on too tight. Lately it just hasn't been getting the job done for me so I bought a whole new easyblade just to get the nut. It was better but just not the "ooh ahh" as it was when I first got it. So I was bored the other day and took the old easyblade off the magfloat and put the new one on. I'm back to "ooh ahh". I guess the old one was probably brittle from the saltwater and being cooked under the lights occasionally. It took everything off the glass and its brilliantly clear now. Yay!


My neon goby has been missing for some time now. I get busy and don't account for everyone at feeding time and sometimes he's off doing other stuff.....you know, fish stuff. So he doesn't show up and I assume he eats stuff as it floats around in the back forty. Lately he's had some weird cottony thing on his gut which I'm thinking he got from the wrasse who had a cottony thing on his fin. So I was thinking he'd succumbed to whatever ailment he had gotten. But then I had an epiphany. The overflow. Its where small fish go in my tank. Its inevitable. I'm not sure if they get sucked down there or they just like the waterslide effect but there he is, swimmin around in my overflow box, eatin all my copepods. He's actually looking rather healthy in there, I'm not sure if thats a result of the decreased lighting in there (shaded out from all the algae in there, I counted 7 different types!) or what but hes swimmin around in there like its business as usual. Not sure how I'm going to get him out of there so I put the Stockman lid back on the standpipe so he didn't end up in the filter sock down in the sump. That would be rather traumatic. Getting him out should be a chore as I have to take the lighting hood off and find a small net (which I think I threw out).