[goldenmean]

Well not having the big sponge on the mag9.5 was giving me micro bubbles in the display and they would collect on the front of the tank.
The sponge is back on the return pump.

The morning after the 20% WC (Saturday):
Ammonia Elos - 0 FasTest - 0
Nitrite 0.1
Nitrate 10

This morning (Sunday):
Ammonia Elos - 0 FasTest - 0
Nitrite 0.1
Nitrate 10

I set up the auto top off unit this afternoon,
cleaned the overflow sponge, and did another 10%WC for the fun of it!

Since I am not going to get part 2 of my TBS rock and cuc for about 3 more weeks - after I get back from a little trip to Toronto I decided I need to get a few hermits and snails. I did take 3 of my largest hermits with the biggest attitudes from the nano and acclimated them into the 55. The rock did come with some red and some green hair algae. These hermits have become pigs!! Two of them cut a good path thru the red hair algae patch in just a couple of hours and now they are all working on the green.

I just skewered my first two Gorilla crabs.
They are soooo cute.
Not good for a reef.
Make that three crabs. This one was on the sand about 30 minutes after lights out and I just picked him up with chop sticks (aka the hands of god)