My RO/DI unit arrived and Dear Hubby is studious setting it up with its own sink. Yay! We also bought T5 lights, which we'll hopefully get set up sometime this winter. Since I don't have any coral yet, I guess there's no rush.
Also, I've noticed two new inhabitants in my tank and two in my husband's. We've both got fan worms. I've only got 1 that I can see; he's got a dozen of them! I've also got a sponge of some type. It was white when I got home from vacation but it's pink now, probably from the purple algae growing on some of the rocks and on one part of the glass. As for the hubby's second hitchhiker, I have no idea what it is. He's going to try and get pictures tomorrow so hopefully you guys can identify it. The only thing I do know is that it's not aiptasia.
It looks like both tanks have completed the first part of the on-going cycling process. Ammona 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate (hubby) 0 (me) 20, ph (hubby) 8.0 (me) 7.8. So we picked up the hubby's first CUC: 6 snails, 3 each of the red leg and blue leg hermit crabs, and we each got an emerald crab. We also looked at some of the fish they had available. Hubby was keenly interested in the Red Scooter Blenny, and I've had to re-evaluate getting an Angler. I really like my invertebrates and I won't have most of them long with an Angler in the tank. Sadly, I'm not in a position yet to set up a species-specific tank. So I'm going back to square one to see what kind of companion fish will go well with the corals I want and the invertebrates.
The next phase as I see it is to start a phytoplankton culture going and seed both tanks and refugiums with copepods and rotifers.
Also, I've noticed two new inhabitants in my tank and two in my husband's. We've both got fan worms. I've only got 1 that I can see; he's got a dozen of them! I've also got a sponge of some type. It was white when I got home from vacation but it's pink now, probably from the purple algae growing on some of the rocks and on one part of the glass. As for the hubby's second hitchhiker, I have no idea what it is. He's going to try and get pictures tomorrow so hopefully you guys can identify it. The only thing I do know is that it's not aiptasia.
It looks like both tanks have completed the first part of the on-going cycling process. Ammona 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate (hubby) 0 (me) 20, ph (hubby) 8.0 (me) 7.8. So we picked up the hubby's first CUC: 6 snails, 3 each of the red leg and blue leg hermit crabs, and we each got an emerald crab. We also looked at some of the fish they had available. Hubby was keenly interested in the Red Scooter Blenny, and I've had to re-evaluate getting an Angler. I really like my invertebrates and I won't have most of them long with an Angler in the tank. Sadly, I'm not in a position yet to set up a species-specific tank. So I'm going back to square one to see what kind of companion fish will go well with the corals I want and the invertebrates.
The next phase as I see it is to start a phytoplankton culture going and seed both tanks and refugiums with copepods and rotifers.
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