I'm so pleased the sun coral is doing so well. I'm feeding twice a day--once in the tank after I fed fish to keep them occupied. Going to get a clear wine bottle and cut bottom off. Plastic won't stay because its not on the sand so can't bury it to hold it.
First feeding is the first morning feeding and the coral is still open at least somewhat from the night. I just hit the heads open still. At the 3:00 feeding for the anthias, it opens about 20 minutes later but I don't go back to feed.
At the 7pm feeding I put some coral frenzy or reef roids around it with the flow and wait. then I put it in a bowl and target feed heavy. The polyps don't even have to be all the way open. I use a pipette and just drop mysis onto each head and they gobble it up, some eating several times. This picture is 4 hours after I fed and lights out. The extra feedings seems to be getting it back in better health. Seeing more extension of the tentacles. Has a way to go but seems very happy
Everything new is doing well. Even see the ywg in the display refugium if I look in the back of the tank. Damsels coming out of rockwork more but not swimming above the rocks too much yet.
Elegance didn't expand quite as much over the last couple days. Shifted away from the head of the narrow "gully" between main rockwork and lone rock. The tang loves to swim through there. Maybe was irritating the coral. Then I knocked the gonipora off it's rock. Had to set it onto a smaller rock. In front of the gully...Sigh....
All the fish seem to get along. A few chases here or there. Tang will occasionally chase a chromis out of the cavern but they go right back in and so does he and all is well. Same iwth the anthias or the sand goby. Then the tang will follow the sand goby and be buddies.
Here is what I have now
2 clowns. A disppointment mostly as all they do is host the corner back of the aquarium or along back. Once in a while they will swim around.
2 chromis. Ditto. They like to hang in the cavern, come out, go back. With the anthias they seem to come out more.
Gold head sand sifting goby. Love this guy even if he makes a mess... And means I can't put my suns on the sand bed
2 barnacle blenny's. So darn cute and so darn tiny. I have a pair. One has a teeny rock crevice front of tank on the bottom of a rock, the other is facing the back up high in a rock crevice. Wonder if they will ever find each other...
bicolor blenny--keeps watch from the highest point
3 anthias. Love love love. Swim all over and add nice color and movement. Feed 3 x's a day. Another lusted after addition
scooter blenny love this guy who displays in front of me all the time. He's no longer coming up onto the rocks to get his food from the baster since adding the anthias I squirt food in front of him on the sand bed and he often ignores. I think maybe he's getting food after the 3 feedings and isn't as hungry as when I was feeding once a day in the evenings.
kole tang. love this guy. cavern is his. he suffers the others and shares but has to show who is boss once in a while. He comes out, go thru a swim thru, back into cavern from back. out the back, through the gully, back into cavern, back out front, through hole he created at bottom rock going from front to back. He's a busy guy even when lights are out
Gonipora has cyano starting on base an on. Maybe need to chemi clean this weekend.
Duncan fat and fluffy
2 colts back healthy and growing stems again
favia-haven't seen any polyps yet
sun--my lusted after coral. Love it
xenia and gsp doing well. gsp growing longer and zoas and polyps doing well. Zoas moving off frag onto rockwork finally
feather fan growing nicely.
Acros not so good. bleached. Might need to move to bottom? Not sure what to do with them trouble is nitrates I'm sure.
Display refugium
damsels doing well, ywg doing well as far as I know. He's shy
macroalgae doing well t hough getting covered with algae. Using vibrant. Thinking of putting my big emerald in there. Hoping to get tanks plumbed together in next 2 weeks.
still testing daily and dosing to get ca and mg up to normal range then I'll be able to figure out how much to add daily to keep. Dosing nopox and vibrant for algae in both tanks
happy reefer here. Still beginner but learning quickly
