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Well, I have had an explosion in growth and success in this little office tank and it was time for a change. So, I helped a fellow reefer stock their tank and am starting a new pico chapter. Not sure which direction I want to go in yet but it certainly will not include white lightening GSP in the new setup. It is way to fast growing for a small tank like this

This morning -


This afternoon-

... but the refugium is still lit up, it's easy to grab my Nikon and get a few more pictures for the night.

Feather caulerpa fills the refugium from end to end.

These sponges are growing on the back wall, so I moved some plants out of the way to inspect them. I spy some red feather dusters, lots of spirorbid worms, and some amphipods scurrying around.

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Every three months, I refill the poly tank to the top with RO/DI water. This upright container is rated at 265g, and I have a small float installed to stop filling it at 250g. This provides enough room to add salt to the water.

For the past three years, I've used Sybon Reef Blend salt. It takes two cases of salt to mix up 250g at 1.026sg, so I got four cases of Fritz salt last year and am finally getting around to using it. Right before the cold front hit my area on Sunday, I ...

Adding to my last blog about my mystery find, there was another thing that caught my eye that night. There was a zoanthid colony that was really nothing special, they were blackish blue with whitish mouths. Different but not enough to make me want to spend $30 bucks on them. HOWEVER, as I looked at the rock they were on, there was an eye-popping hitch hiker. A colonial tunicate! I have always wanted to try one and they are few and far between. So, I went home and immediately started researching ...

So, I went to the lfs the other day for a test kit and something caught my eye. It seemed to be an SPS but it had HUGE polyps which were all closed. This coral was in a junk tank sitting on the bottom and was marked at $10. For the price and the mystery of it all I couldn't pass it up. So, I brought it home, acclimated it and began some research. Not an easy coral to find any information on to say the least. Luckily I have a
friend that is more tenacious than I when it comes to coral research ...