Two Month Anniversary

Tomorrow is the two month anniversary of adding everything to the big tank. Lots of changes in those two months.

Coraline algae have turned the stark white of the base rocks into a purplish color. Nitrates crept up and up but now seem to be going down as the refugium and deep sand bed start to do their jobs of keeping nitrates down. I've had to harvest calerpa and cheatomorpha out of the refugium twice already, and it appears I'll have to do it with increasing frequency soon.

I've noticed all sorts of life in the refugium, and the tank itself. The fuge has quite a population of stometella (sp?) snails, a small crab, many small bristle worms and the copepod population is on the rise. I've seen similar life in the tank, including a few small starfish, although I can't find them anymore.

I started feeding the fish without turning the VorTech pump off and it seems they love to chase the food around the tank. Perhaps I won't need the feed mode on the new controller after all. Unfortunately, news has been released that the controller will ship late due to some problems with getting FCC approval. Hope its not too long.

Above is a picture of one of the two colonies of Ricordea I have. I bought the top polyp and it split into the two in the picture. Hopefully more splits to come.

Anxiously awaiting news about the AquaIllumination release too :)