Alright minor update. My peristaltic pump went funky on me, for whatever reason everything was moving except water through the pump, I have a feeling some kalk got clogged in it or something, taking the thing apart and putting it back together however seemed to have fixed it. Needless to say my alkalinity dropped like a rock, should have picked this up earlier when I noticed my pH a bit on the low side, calcium also dropped too which is good I guess. Alk 3-4dKh, Calcium 360ppm, strangely enough however these are pretty well balanced, they're just low, so luckily I can bring them up no problem.
Quite a bit of algae on the back half of the tank, I understand from the detrtius spots that have no flow, but I can't understand why on the rocks when everything back there is blue T5s. Although I was rebuilding the lighting hood and my lighting has been kind of iffy for about 2 weeks before it all went back on, so maybe between the alkalinity dropping, the dead spots, the lights, I had a perfect storm of conditions which allowed this crap to grow!
Either way I'll keep a better eye on things and water change is coming up... that said I couldn't resist taking some pictures, just ignore the algae.
This is a mostly LPS shot of my tank because those are what are at the back (where I was looking at all the algae and devising a siphoning strategy)
First up the Acan lords!
This one is for Jason because he asked about it at the meeting as it always seems to pop up on the BAR webpage (old one?)
First aussie acan I got, DBTC FTW!
Neat orange looking bugger, and that fricken Green slimer is such a damn camera hog (and it's growing like crazy in the back)
This one I like because I like these odd, "ghastly" looking acans more so than the super colorful ones
Here's a rock with a few favias on it, my underroos has bleached out a bit, I think that has something to do with the calcium & alk levels however.
A couple of SPS now because they were easily shootable from the back.
This I had to get I noticed it last night, my poker star is definitely beating out my montipora spongodes (I think this is a frag from the ones the NY reefers sent over). Hopefully the spongie can grow fast enough, definitely not going to have a fused coral hybrid here poker star is definitely stronger.
Ian's Efflo, just because it's cool, and yeah the slimer is in the picture again, you can't really see it in the picture but the slimer also has a branch growing under the efflo, it hit the bottom and the top of the coral literally flattened out, so my table now has a leg
Alright back to the LPS
This is the "ox blood" chalice I won at the Dec raffle, and note the much cleaner bottom of the tank, plenty of flow going on here
This was my favorite chalice because it looks cool and mean girly, however a bit of tissue recession that I haven't put my finger on yet, for some reason I suspect a fish might be nibbling on it.
This one I got ages ago, never had any eyes that I could see, unless it has ninja eyes, but it is by far the fastest growing chalice that I have. I guess if I wanted to frag it I simply cut off a piece of the rim?
And here is one of the first DBTC items I tossed in, which promptly died in everyone's tanks (thanks guys!!!) luckily for me they've repopulated the rock like gangbusters... Might try to re-offer some to keep my thread alive (if it hasn't been deleted)
