Well it has been quite a week. Nominated for TOTM, my back feeling good enough to do a water change, the coral beauty settling in nicely and a new HH.
So firstly congratulations to
@Kman237 on winning TOTM - great tank and thanks to
@NickF for nominating us.
So back to the tank. I did a water change over last weekend and it seemed to perk up some of the corals. Carbonate had dropped to 5.1dKH and Calcium was 390 so I started dosing at the end of January and then after the water change last weekend levels were up to 6.7 and 400. I need to check this weekend as I may be able to ease off a little on the dosing now.
The coral beauty has settled in nicely. On adding it to the tank the yellow tang was not too happy and there was chasing and tail wagging for the first few days. However they seem to have settled down now and the angel has held his ground a few times recently. They seem to spend a lot of time browsing algae off the back wall of the tank, with the angel feeding high up and the tang lower down. The yellow is tolerating the angel at the algae feeder now too. The colours on the angel are great....
As the QT was now empty I got a
Ctenochaetus truncatus (Indian gold ring bristletooth tang?). I had planned to get another Kole Yellow Eye Tang (Ctenochaetus strigosus) to replace the one I lost to Ich but this was a nice looking fish and the right family so I went for it. It is very shy at present in the QT but is eating well and the green algae on the tank glass has lots of kiss marks where the bristletooth is rasping off the algae film. I have no pictures yet of the tang but I did get a couple of nice Acan frags at the same time. I think I'm developing a bit of an Acan addiction...
I'm still finding the odd Zoanthid nudi - yesterday all the Zoas looked great but today many are closed up so I think there is at least one left in the tank. I think I am the king of HHs and I spotted this guy this evening....
A tiny little chiton I think. I'm always surprised that despite all the tank watching I do there always seems to be something new to find.
Finally a shot of one of my co-habiting Acro crabs. There is seemingly no decent angle to photograph them both so you will have to take my word that there is another crustacean lurking in the background....
Happy reefing,
Dave