Well, I've given up on ever seeing the second Leopard Wrasse, so that experiment was a total failure. Not only that but the female Trigger is 100% dead and the male Trigger has also disappeared. No sign of him whatsoever. It does look as though the demise of the female also triggered (no pun intended) the demise of the male for some reason. All the other fish are looking fine with no abnormal behaviour to be seen. All the usual water parameters are fine as well. Not the best episode in my reefing career. I shall now let the tank settle down again for a period before I attempt to introduce any more fish.
One problem I have at the moment is the heat. It's around 38 degrees every day at the moment. The temperature inside the house is around 27 degrees and with the tank running at around 4 degrees above the ambient temperature, it means the Chiller is kicking in about six or seven times a day. Even at night the temperature in the house does not drop below 26.5 degrees. We have triple glazing in the house and only Air Con in the bedrooms, but when it is this hot it is difficult to keep the temperature down in the house. We have electric roller blinds on the outside of every window, and in the mornings one side of the house is 'closed' (the sunny side), and we switch things over around midday as the sun moves, so we avoid having direct sunshine coming through the windows. I think we are going to have to get some Air Con installed downstairs as well.