Sept. 30-Oct. 08
Posted 10-09-2009 at 01:38 AM by reef4gsp
Updated 10-09-2009 at 01:51 AM by reef4gsp (Added to catagory)
Updated 10-09-2009 at 01:51 AM by reef4gsp (Added to catagory)
Sept.30 Shook some detritus out of the chaeto and cleaned the fuge sponge a few times. Skimmer at 15%. Large hermit molted. Turned over the surface of the substrate. Dosed 0.8mL VSV. Noticed there is no protein at the surface of the display. Fed flake only.
Oct. 01 Tested some parameters. Phosphate 0.1 ppm, Nitrate 0ppm, Nitrite 0ppm, Calcium 460. Didn’t feed. Didn’t dose VSV. Felt sick
Oct. 02 Fed 2 blood worms. Noticed some protein on the display surface. Cut VSV dose back to 0.6mL. Some of the GSP frags aren’t opening. Cleaned the fuge sponge several times. Turned the skimmer up
Oct. 03 Fed 3 bloodworms. GSP frags are all fully open again. No protein on the display surface. The skimmer is overflowing slightly. Turned it down a little. There’s tons of crap in the fuge; chaeto, red cyano, bubbles?. I kinda want to sterilize the sump. Bubble coral is probably 75% recovered. Of the Sinularia and hammer coral, the prior seems to be winning. Some of the hammer’s polyps seem elongated towards the edges.
Oct.7 Despite the lapse in documentation, I have fed 3 cubes and dosed 0.6mL VSV daily. Some other minor maintenance was also performed. Did not feed today. Instead scrubbed the sump of cyano and Installed a 600GPH pump in the refugium for circulation, it seems to be working well at keeping detritus from collecting on the surface of the chaeto . Emptied the skimmer on Oct. 04. Also emptied today. Lightly scrubbed the LR of hair algae, which has grown a lot in the last 3 days. Added a green (metallic?) mushroom, used a razor blade to remove it from its original rock which had bryopsis and playanthids present. Also removed a Ricordia from a Fiji rock and discarded the rock. Removed a branch of Sinularia that was causing the hammer to recede on one side. Also turned over surface of substrate.
Oct. 8 The mushroom added yesterday did not stay in its crack. It’s on the sand now. Neither did the Ricordia. It’s MIA. Fed 3 cubes. Dosed 0.6mL VSV. Skimmer 50%, slightly wet.
Oct. 01 Tested some parameters. Phosphate 0.1 ppm, Nitrate 0ppm, Nitrite 0ppm, Calcium 460. Didn’t feed. Didn’t dose VSV. Felt sick
Oct. 02 Fed 2 blood worms. Noticed some protein on the display surface. Cut VSV dose back to 0.6mL. Some of the GSP frags aren’t opening. Cleaned the fuge sponge several times. Turned the skimmer up
Oct. 03 Fed 3 bloodworms. GSP frags are all fully open again. No protein on the display surface. The skimmer is overflowing slightly. Turned it down a little. There’s tons of crap in the fuge; chaeto, red cyano, bubbles?. I kinda want to sterilize the sump. Bubble coral is probably 75% recovered. Of the Sinularia and hammer coral, the prior seems to be winning. Some of the hammer’s polyps seem elongated towards the edges.
Oct.7 Despite the lapse in documentation, I have fed 3 cubes and dosed 0.6mL VSV daily. Some other minor maintenance was also performed. Did not feed today. Instead scrubbed the sump of cyano and Installed a 600GPH pump in the refugium for circulation, it seems to be working well at keeping detritus from collecting on the surface of the chaeto . Emptied the skimmer on Oct. 04. Also emptied today. Lightly scrubbed the LR of hair algae, which has grown a lot in the last 3 days. Added a green (metallic?) mushroom, used a razor blade to remove it from its original rock which had bryopsis and playanthids present. Also removed a Ricordia from a Fiji rock and discarded the rock. Removed a branch of Sinularia that was causing the hammer to recede on one side. Also turned over surface of substrate.
Oct. 8 The mushroom added yesterday did not stay in its crack. It’s on the sand now. Neither did the Ricordia. It’s MIA. Fed 3 cubes. Dosed 0.6mL VSV. Skimmer 50%, slightly wet.
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