2007

 

January 14, 2007

Started having a weird problem where the corals were turning transparent. All parameters seemed to be fine so I thought it may have been from the lighting not providing enough blue spectrum.

March 11, 2007

Added a 40w Current Satellite Dual Actinic PC fixture to suppliment the MH. Also had an outbreak of Asparagopsis and borrowed a tang for a couple days. He was stressed the whole time and went home early.

April 13, 2007

The Asparagopsis just got worse and worse. Fortunately I found out that Mexican Turbo Snails love to eat this algae and 5 of them got rid of it in a couple weeks.

May 20, 2007

I got the idea to move all my zoas/palys to a frag tank that recently got a lighting upgrade and made this tank my "Stony Nano". Shipments had just been allowed for the first time from Australia and I got my first frags of Aussie Acan lords and a Duncanopsammia. I decided to get an Orangetail Damsel for some reason to go in this tank. Also tried adding more flow with a Power Sweep powerhead.

June 14, 2007

Seemed like the better the corals grew, the better the Caulerpa did as well.

July 30, 2007

SPS collection slowy growing

August 16, 2007

After this I decided to take drastic measures to get rid of the Caulerpa. I bought a bunch of Dry Pukani rock and eventually moved all these corals and the Damsel to the frag tank.

September 29, 2007

New rock in and corals moved back. Decided to go with a Purple Firefish and a Red Firefish for the new layout. I also upgraded the lighting to a 150w HQI fixture I made out of a security light housing and socket/ballast from a used JBJ Viper. I chose the Phoenix 14k bulb and was very happy with it. The nice blue spectrum of the bulb freed up the 40w Satellite for use on a new planted tank I set up.

October 21, 2007

As the nutrients leaked out of the new rock, this grassy algae began to carpet everything. Added a couple chalices and a frag of Meteor Shower Cyphastrea that now covers that rock its on.

November 8, 2007

Upgraded the flow to a Hydor Koralia 2 and turned this little tank into a whirlpool. The SPS did just fine after that! Also added a Helfrichi Firefish and got my first SPS frags from ORA.

November 24, 2007

Added some Orange Catseye Snails for cleanup but they never did much.

December 6, 2007