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.