Tank Entry

Back in March I added a little anemone to the tank, unsure if it had been a wise purchase, if it would survive or if I would be able to properly feed it.

Well, after a few unsuccessful attempts to feed it small pieces of shrimp I stopped feeding, but the anemone has been slowly growing, apparently just from light and whatever it might be filtering out of the water.

Here is what it looked at the start:

Here is what it looks ...

Long time no post... because long time no good tank maintenance LOL .

Serious now, I've been running the tank on autopilot for a while now....

• Since May 1st, started dosing Balling Plus to move Alk, Ca and Mg up. Just a basic dose of each, to slowly move params up.
• Since late-April feeding with auto-feeder twice a day. By the jungle algae my refugium developed, and the few algae spots that appeared in the display tank, clearly it is too much food...
• ATO refilled weekly,

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I decided to test a new LFS that recently opened in the neighborhood, http://www.danisfish.com.br. The guys seem nice and knowledgeable, they have a good set of products for sale, and they are very close, which always helps. In fact, they're the closest LFS to my home.

So I hired them to do a one time tank maintenance, involving general cleanup of pumps, glass, scraping algae off rocks (only a small patch left), doing a partial water change and measuring water parameters. You might ...

One of my 5 Green Chromis was behaving strange for some 4 months, it stopped swimming with the others, was always hiding or swimming at the cube's corners and apparently wasn't eating anymore. It was the largest specimen, possibly the older fish.

Well, yesterday it died. Found it stuck sideways on one of my MP10s. When I was trying to remove it a peppermint shrimp came by and took it away, immediately starting to eat it.

Not much was left when I came back home... well, ...

Got some time to post, will continue my thought process from the last blog post.

I concluded a few things from my experience in these 2.5 years:

1. I should underfeed my fish. First because I probably have a tendency to overfeed, second because they don't get easy food in the wild. Come on, "real" fish have a hard life! They swim a lot, compete a lot for food and don't get that much prey every day.
2. I should finger feed my fish. A tank as small as mine (DT=180L/48G) doesn't

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