After a year of being mostly out of the reefing hobby, my interest finally returned and it was time to get my tanks back in shape. I started using bottled distilled water only for this tank and switched salts to the ESV B-Ionic Seawater System. In my opinion this is the best salt mix out there and I've tweaked the recipe a bit so I don't have to dose to keep levels up as long as I do my weekly 40% water changes.
February 21, 2011
Some new additions, namely a neon green and red Trachyphyllia, a Sun Coral, and a couple new Aussie Acan lords. Also added some Astrea snails to clean up the turf algae growing on the rocks.
March 7, 2011
My wife decided we needed a Derasa clam and I made the switch to the 70w XM 20k bulb. Easily my favorite bulb so far. Also added my only remaining zoa frag, 2 polyps of the Original Safecrackers to the top of the right rock structure. It's now well over a hundred polyps.
March 15, 2011
Moved the Bicolor Pseudochromis to the 29g and got the fish my wife wanted, a Black Ocellaris Clownfish. Also got some new frags including some Blastos, Favites, and a Lithophyllon.
March 29, 2011
Decided to try some SPS and got a blue Acro hoeksemai and a Montipora setosa. Not the best idea since this tank doesn't run the kind of flow it used to the last time I kept SPS.
April 16, 2011
The Acro. hoeksemai wasn't happy with the lower flow of this tank and STN'd badly.
May 6, 2011
June 6, 2011
A bit of a Bryopsis outbreak.
July 14, 2011
August 14, 2011
Things filling in and the Caulerpa making its comeback once the Bryopsis was gone.
September 14, 2011
Moved the Derasa clam to the 29g where it has since easily doubled in size.
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