Clowns introduction

So, this evening I got two clown fishes (tank raised, I'm trying to be reef friendly). I let them float in the bag for a while. In the mean time I was cleaning up the apartment. Then I made a drip-acclimator (an airline connected to a straw with two paper clamps to hold it in place and a flow regulator from a medical thingy. I ensured slow-flow into the bag so they got chemically acclimated rather quickly since it was late already and I needed to go to sleep.

Sunday - PWC

A 1 bucket PWC was carried out and 10 ml of Zyme was used to declorinate it.
Pre-change SG = 1.024.
Zoas started to open-up in their new spot, Cloves seem to be happy too. The Green hydnophora not much so, I'm afraid it is bleaching, but hope it'll be fine.

Tests

Saturday tests showed the NO3 & NO2 to be at 0 level; and Ammonia at .25

Finally the Skimmer is working right! +1 Clove Polyp!

Finally the skimmer stopped overflowing.
So I counted 8 total heads on my clove polyp rock!
Another rock still has only one head

Morning Temperature too high (81 F!)

I noticed that the morning temperature shot up to 81F so I turned the fans on to bring the temp back down.

Moved Zoa

At night after the lights were out I moved the zoa rock over to the algae covered one (closer to the light source. Will check if they will be opening up this way.

Clove Polyps are great Zoas not so much

t= 77.1F

Today I have counted 7 heads on the rock that I want to leave for myself.
Here are they are on rock:


I'm leaving this for myself.





The rock below I plan to pass on to the next member:




The photo below is of my Zoas and of some bug (that is said to be a pod) on the glass:

Clove Polyp Frag doing great!

This morning I checked on the Clove polyp rock that I found some Clove Polyps on. They all expanded to about 1/3" from 1/4" and became thicker and healthier looking.
The Zoas were still closed in the morning. So I took their rock and moved out to the out most left corner of the tank. I'll see if they will opend duringthe day.

Swap back to original Oceanic PH

When I came home at night I noticed that the powerhead I put is making way too much noise and vibrations. I swapped it back for the original Oceanic powerhead.

Stopping Coralia Powerhead problem solved!

Today the Coralia powerhead stopped spinning again!
I disconnected the pump to check the flow and it was pretty fine.
Then I checked the head intake nozzle and it turned out to be all clogged up wiht chaeto!
So I cleaned it out with a toothpick. Hopefully it'll be fine now - will check in the evening.

Pump upgrade

This morning when I woke up I found out that the coralia head stopped spinning.
I had swapped original oceanic water pump (140 gph?) with MaxiJet 600 rated 160 gph and the head started to spin again.
I also found out that I need to buy a sponge for filtration to be inserted in the output chamber.
The only sponge currently in the filter is the one on top of the filter basket.

Enjoyment time!

Today I had a chance to enjoy all my hard work!


The Zoas opened up, the Leather is showing off some bumps, Kenya Tree expanded - all seems to be good; the only thing - I'm not sure if Green Hydnophora is OK after being re-glued. It is electric green, but I don't see any bumps except for two on top right:

During the hike later in the day I coudn't hold myself from thinking about my tank. Now I have something I'm proud to show off!

Glueing & Observing Zoas Close with 10K off

So, today the pleasant discovery was that on of the Kenya Tree frags on the coral plug survived and opened up to 1/4"! (Look at the plug to the left of Leather)



I had arranged the new arrivals: Leather was put on a rock, zoas were super-glued to a bigger rock; Hydnophora was re-glued in place.

The toadstool is doing well in my opinon (it is expanding at least some polyps on its previously smooth surface.
I counted about 35 zoa heads on the frag I gotten. Some of them actually opened up today and I could notice sweeper tentacles.

Green hydnophora is also doing well I saw some new bumps on it (probably expanded tentacles too).
Interesting: the zoas closed almost right after the 10K lights went off!

In the evening I noticed some whitish worm living in one of the live rocks. I hope he's not harmful to the corals...

New Arrivals: Zoas & Leather

Today I bought two new corals: a rock of Zoas and a Leather looking like toadstool.
I brought them home and acclimated:

1. Floated bags in the tank for about 1 hour
2. Put frags into plastic containers with their own water
3. Started to increase water voume in plastic containers by adding the water from the tank.
4. Once about 50% of water was changed (on a stretch of about 1 hour) frags were deposited into the display tank. by firstthrowing them in separate containers and then i

Adition of Filter Cartridge, PWC

Today I found out that my tank should have a filter cartridge from Petco employee. So I bought one for $10.00 at Petco.
In the evening I had carried out a PCW of one almost full bucket. Then removed all the liverock rubble from the intake chamber and installed the filter cartridge into it. I had placed the rubble back into the display portion of the tank.
There is still trickling noise caused by the the mid-chamber being not full and still algae presence on the tank glass dure to recent ammonia spike and ammonia staying at .25 level.

PWC Day

After addition of more live sand the green hair algae took off again!
Katy is gone :-( but Hydro is doing well or so it seems.
I still see no point of using the skimmer though as it doesn not collect anything (everything gets spilled over.
1-bucket PWC was carried out today.

Morning t= 79F

The Green Hydnophora is doing well I see the polyps reappearing. Katy (older Kenya Tree frag is mysteriously gone. Lights function properly

Addition of live sand

Added livesand from the bucket where had been stored back into the display tank. Will have to check the water parameters tonight to ensure Ammonia didn't spike-up.