ok, i will make this real quick because I can not believe what I am seeing in my tank right now. I have not seen my tiger pistol shrimp in months...literally I have not seen this shrimp since I added him to the tank months ago. Well over the last few days I have notices his burrow has gotten much larger over night than previously. Well I am not sure if there is any history to this but I have just watched the lawnmower blenny "stand watch" while the tiger pistol comes out of the burrow ...
Just a quick update on the current status of my tank and newest attempt at acropora as well as an update on a couple of others. Fist off I am excited to say that it appears I seem to be getting some new growth at the tips of my acropora and also I seem to have some very nice coloration changes in the new growth on the tips. All of the polyps are very open and eager at all times. I am currently still dosing prodiobio, digest, and reefbooster every two weeks and I am target feeding the ...
Well upon encouragement from Melev I am attempting SPS once again. I went to the LFS Saturday and found these specimens: The above SPS is purple with small green polyps, It was next to the below acroporas but I couldn't get an ID from the LFS nor have I seen this particular growth style online yet. There are actually two different acropora on this rock with a small frag of the green left ...
Well it has been quite some time since I have posted on here so here we go. Sunday I decided to take the time and perform an annual cleaning of the equipment, sump, sand, rocks, refugium, and tank. I cleaned all the non calcium based algae off of the overflow and the votech power heads but I could not find my old Korelia pumps in time for me to willingly soak the power heads long enough to clean coralline off of them and honestly I am quite content with the overflow being covered in it so it will ...