First Post!! and Lazy Sunday

Welcome to the first post of our new reef blog. I would like to add entries to this blog from our paper-based journal, but haven’t figured out a way to backdate entries yet. Sooo…

Today was a lazy day. Fed the fish some Rod’s Food and frozen baby brine shrimp. Trying to get Alvy fattened up and developed. He’s not as aggressive as Annie, and now that the starry blenny and pajama cardinals have worked up the courage to enter the clown fish’s territory during feeding, he has to work all that much harder to get a full belly.

Pajama cardinal is still carrying eggs. I believe this is day 6 or 7, so he should be spitting soon. Looks about ready, the eggs are nice and pink.

Still battling nuisance algae of all different types. Caulerpa, red cotton algae, green hair algae. Yesterday and today did some pruning of the feather caulerpa.

Cleaned the skimmer collection cup and neck today.

Montipora’s are not looking so hot right now. I had done a dip in a potassium permanganate solution to kill off some montipora nudibranches, and am afraid I did more damage than good. All of the corals are browned out, and the Idaho Grape is looking pretty bad in particular. Really sliming up. I’m afraid the frags may not make it, even though I followed recommendations as best as I could. I will keep my eye on the pieces remaining in the tank – Idaho Grape (2″x3″), rainbow encrusting, orange plating – and hopefully no nudibranches are spotted. I’ll just resort to the “pluck” method if I see them.

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