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much to report this month (yay!). The
water parameters are finally extremely
stable at 10.2 dKH and 410 for calcium. SG
is at 1.026. As promised, NOTHING
livestock-wise was added this month. Nothing
was moved…heck, we barely even
looked at the tank. The main
reason was because this month marked
the beginning of what used to be my
summer vacation but is now the first
leg of my 5 year old's annual
summer grandma tour. I just go
along for the ride. And with
memories of last years problems still
fresh in my mind, I decided not to
make any changes to the tank whatsoever
before I left. This worked
out pretty well; by the time of our
departure (3rd week of the month),
things looked better than they had
in a long, long time. We
did lose one of the small newer acros
(Acro #44) but considering Moye's Law, that's not bad at all. |
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| We were visiting family for the majority of this month also so again there were no major changes. About the first week of the month however,
Ray calls me and says that he
noticed a bit of 'slime' coming
from the back of my M. confusa
(see Montipora in the 'SPS' section)
and, thinking it was an unseen
Aiptasia, Majano, or a mushroom
irritating it, he turned it around
to find a healthy little Fungia
growing on it |
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back there  !!! I
mean, it doesn't get much
cooler than that, right? So
now the question is what to do. Right
now, I'm just going to
leave them alone to work out
their differences as the little
guy looks so darned 'natural'
growing there. I figure
it must have come in on the monti
so small we didn't notice
it.
We
returned from this trip (another
journey is planned for mid-August)
about the third week of July. The
tank continued to look good and
the parameters are still stable. The
only other livestock observations
are noted later as updates in their
normal category sections. |
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A
fairly quiet month though not without
a couple of unfortunate casualties. After
several weeks of watching helplessly
as it grew lighter and lighter, we
finally lost Acro #40 . I'll
especially miss this one because it
was a very photogenic piece and its
color really made it a focal point. I'm
also sorry to report that BOTH A. horridas
#44 and
#45 bleached
out on me also and now I only have
one 1/4” frag
of #45 left.
This
was also the month that Ray decided
to move the Orange
Fungia ,
which hadn't been doing well,
to the refugium just to get it out
of the tank. Well, in this case,
I'm happy to report that the
piece is doing |
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