I haven't managed my usual Friday update because of the holidays. I hope you have all had a good time and met up with family and friends. I was away for 4 days but I set up the auto feeder and got back this afternoon and everyone seems to be happy and well.
I've been checking my maxima clam every few days for pyramid snails and so far the count is 124 snails removed. The clam is looking better as a result with greater mantle extension. I've not seen any Montipora eating nudibranchs now in 3 weeks so I'm hoping I have beaten them. The
Montipora danae they were eating is now recovering . For a while after taking out the last slug I saw no polyp extension but now it looks a little better.
You can see along the bottom and right hand edges of the frag where the slugs ate away the coral polyps.
Over the two months I have bought a few Acro frags and was hoping it was not too early to add them to my tank. They are not as colourful as
@Oxylebius,
@Wrangy or
@Danreef have in their wonderful tanks but I do seem to be getting a bit of growth...
After purchase (22nd October)
28th December
Finally I spotted a little bit of Acanthastrea in my LFS about 6 weeks ago. It looked pretty but was a bit beaten up. So after some of hand feeding it is starting to heal itself. My puttying is not very good but I think the Acan is on the mend.
The goby and shrimp (Mr Grumpy and Clint) seem to have settled down now. The shrimp is still very busy, but seems content to open, close and reopen tunnels rather than extend the network. Hopefully in the new year I will add a few more fish. I'm planning to get another clown to make a pair again. I fancy a leopard wrasse of some sort. I will try another dwarf angel and a kole tang again. I wonder if another kole tang will settle my yellow tang down a bit. Before the Ich the two tangs were great buddies, always swimming around together and now the yellow is very skittish and this has a knock on effect on the Chromis. We shall see.
Happy reefing,
Dave