Spent Father's Day and Tuesday with the tank.....
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, 06-21-2011 at 06:01 PM (1710 Views)
My wife and son were kind enough to let me sit around the house, leave me alone, and work on the tank all day father's day and today. I completed 2 out of 3 things I set out to accomplish. The First things was to tackle my Ph issue, I noticed while the canopy was off the Ph would rise meaning that it was not getting enough fresh o2 in the transfer between the top of the water and the air so as you can see by the pictures I set out to try and remedy that particular issue. I have a cat the jump on top of the tank so I needed the canopy to protect the tank and me from coming home to a dead cat in my tank one day.
Secondly I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned the tank breaking two scrapers in the process but finally clearing the front and side tank glass of all algae then removing the bottom cover that ran around the tank so now more of it is seen as well as the sand and bottom corals.
Lastly I spent most of the day attempting to catch my ocellaris clowns since I watched them claim 3/4 of the tank as their territory. Not even the fire fish was allowed on their half. After 4 hours of failing to catch them I finally settled with rearranging some of the rock work and corals in hopes of calming them down in the meantime. Next time I get a day off I think I will attempt to catch them the night before. My plan is to trade them in for a different breed of ocellaris that are younger in hopes of getting a more peaceful pair of clowns in there (its a long shot I know but at this point if they refuse to calm down after this latest change in scenery I will be forced to do something to protect the other inhabitants of the tank.)
Also I couldn't resist but to take one full tank shot showing it nice and clean![]()