gday all, its been a little while since I've posted any updates on the tank!!
I went away for 2 weeks to the Ningaloo reef in Western Australia. The inside of the reef is endless plains of hard corals, and an abundance of fish life. I think the highlight was diving a cleaning station. The station was set up over a massive cabbage coral colony over 6m wide, with reef shark after reef shark, coming in and getting their teeth shined! We also spent some time finding manta rays to snorkel with. I had a fantastic experience with a large female and a juvenile. The juvenile's underside was completely black like the rest of his body, which apparently is quite rare. Overall is was awesome!
So prior to leaving i did a 150L water change, put on the auto feeder, and asked a neighbour to refill RO tank when needed, and hoped for the best! I must admit i wasn't actually that worried about the tank. To date it has seemed very stable. I came home to find my the tank looking even better then when i left. The rocks seemed to be a lot cleaner and there was no presence of any algae. I did a water test and all params where pretty much the best they have ever been.
Hence i did some shopping and got a lovely toad stool and a few acans. I also decided to get the moorish idol out, his dorsal seemed a lot shorter on my return, and the tangs seemed to be chasing him. I also got four chromis as when i was diving i spent some time watching a school of juveniles weave through the acros and i realised how cool they actually are!
Here's a shot i took today.
sorry to hear you lost your flame
