Yes you guys are! I'm in the middle of a crazy busy few months of travel! In the past six weeks I've only been home 5 day, lol1
Anyway on to the tank!
Tank is chugging along nicely, I'm still fighting a bit of algae issues, my numbers are solid and based on my SPS colors I'm likely getting close to ULN. I'm planning to attack it with boiling RO. I suspect like many things it's just part of the tank maturing
I'm still finding new creatures. Yesterday I found two more sea cucumbers, or rather I found their feeding apparatus sticking out of the rocks.
Of the three Acro colonies I ordered from live aquaria I lost one :-( however it was during their guarantee period. The other two colonies are all showing growth at the base. Both have had some fairly drastic color changes in a positive direction. The cream with pale purple tips has darkened up to a rich purple blue. After being gone for nearly a month you would hardly recognize it as the same coral. The brown coral with neon green polyps is turning more and more green.
My tri color acro and yellow Carolina are exploding with growth and new branches, and my purple haze monti may in fact be trying to take over the world.
My Ora neon birds nest and bird of paradise are both still alive and doing ok, they both were stung by my Hollywood stunner.
While I was gone sadly I lost both of my large sea squirts that came in on my live rock
I have also added a couple of new additions to the tank. Before all of my crazy travel I found a pair of lubbocks fairy wrasse. I'm not sure if they are in fact a male female pair, but they are inseparable. They went through a 5 week quarantine while I was gone and were added to the display tank last Tuesday. So far everyone is doing great, they are out social and eating great. My tail spot blenny swims and hunts the rock with the two wrasses all day. My clowns could care less that they are even there. Now I know I have a heavy bio load in the tank. Right now everyone is small, I'm testing my water every third day. So far everything is stable. I'm also prepared that as my fish grow, or they begin to have social issues, or I can't maintain the water quality that I will need to move or re home a couple of fish. When this happens I will be moving/rehoming my clowns. But right now everyone is happy!