Wow,
Ok, so it's been while....
Unfortunalely in the gap between my last post and now we have lost Gizmo (quite literally actually, though now I think we can write him off as 'permanently' gone :tears: ). I've no clue what happened. One day he is perfectly fine, swimming around, eating, etc.... the next day he is M.I.A. No clue what happened. We looked all through the tank for him (in the back near the filters, under rocks, behind plants, etc... but he was just ...gone. So sad I loved that little guy, he was SUCH a cutie pie!!
First we were having some type of problems with our Zoas. We lost almost an entire (and rather large rock) of zoas. Is absolutely depressing, because we got a good deal on that rock and I doubt we ever find one like that again (for such a bargain anyways). There are only a few zoas left....and the entire rock used to be just COVERED. We have ordered some water treatment to dose the tank with (it is supposed to treat some type of zoa disease, but be harmless to everything else in the tank - well, except for algae....it is supposed to kick algae's butt - which I'm fine with, because I'm tired of cleaning hair algae off the back of my tank). We finally ordered this stuff (too late really if you ask me, as our zoas have already ceased...) after waiting FOREVER for one of the LFS to order it, which they kept saying "It'll be in next week"....two weeks later..."It'll be in next week". Until finally, we checked back and it was "Well, we just got some in, but we sold the last bottle today"....I mean WTF!!! So.....we ordered it ourselves, which is obviously what we should have done to begin with, because now we have like 4 zoas where we used to have 50.....
Soooo....on a brighter note however, after having our water tested MULTIPLE times by various folks and watching our other corals and fish carefully....we have 2 new additions!!
We bought a tiny yellow tang and a blue damsel (the yellow tailed ones as these are supposed to be the least aggressive of the bright blue damsels). So far so good.....both are eating and swimming and seem to be loving life. YAY!!! That puts us with four fishes: Squishy Cheeks (the clownfish), Princess (our Royal Gramma), Pooty (the Yellow Tang), and our wee little blue damsel (no name yet, haven't decided).
I will have to post pics of our new additions and our sad little zoa rock for you guys soon. I need to get you all up to date....it has been too long. We are 's l o w l y' in the process of cleaning up our tank...so I have sorta been waiting until that is completed before posting pics, as I do not like the looks of it right now. There is coraline all over the back, but not solid, really splotchy...looks bad, very distracting and busy looking. I hate it. It is a pain to remove also. We are slowling scraping it all off the back and downsizing our corals...I'll post pics as soon as I can!!
Later all!!!
Stacy