October Review - A Tumultuous Month.
October was a bit of a tumultuous month, death of a blenny, a shrimp and a six line wrasse.
The blenny and shrimp, as mentioned in my previous journal post died as a result of using old water that had been hot, cold, hot, cold, hot, cold. Very saddening, he was a great fish, awesome personality!
The six line wrasse however, all my water parameters were fine, woke up one day and it was having issues swimming. I note that the night before I heard something hit the glass – quite hard as well. So I am thinking either he’s death was a result of trauma after the collision or perhaps something else, external to my tank – nonetheless sad. Went to the LFS, had my water retested and he agreed it was weird and that he would supply another six-line wrasse, free of charge, very generous and great customer service.
I’ve noticed over the past month now, that the level of coralline algae on the live rock has decreased dramatically. I believe this is a direct result of two long spine urchins that are out every night! There is one rock they haven’t been on yet and it’s obvious, it is SO purple! So the plan is, to catch them and take them to the LFS on Thursday.
Good news is that the chiller’s thermostat has been sort out and it is chilling the tank to 24.5-25 when it kicks in and not too much lower thankfully. One less thing to worry about for the time being.
I’ve noticed that my corals’ polyp extension hasn’t been as much as of late, so this is another issue that I will be looking at over the weekend. I can’t see any issues when I test the water, but we will just have to see.
Further, since the death of the blenny, I have noticed a bit of algae where he used to hang out – he must have kept it nice and clean – the two hermit crabs that I have now don’t seem to be too interested in going up there, annoyingly so. So the plan is to get another hermit crab or two hoping that they’ll clean the rock up a bit. I think also the algae might be growing more because the coralline algae has been eaten by the urchins so there is nothing to outcompete the nuisance algae.
So the plan is to:
Take the urchins in.
Get two hermit crabs.
Find out what’s going on with the coral polyp extension (potentially flow)
Continue to strive for better and a healthier tank.
October was a bit of a tumultuous month, death of a blenny, a shrimp and a six line wrasse.
The blenny and shrimp, as mentioned in my previous journal post died as a result of using old water that had been hot, cold, hot, cold, hot, cold. Very saddening, he was a great fish, awesome personality!
The six line wrasse however, all my water parameters were fine, woke up one day and it was having issues swimming. I note that the night before I heard something hit the glass – quite hard as well. So I am thinking either he’s death was a result of trauma after the collision or perhaps something else, external to my tank – nonetheless sad. Went to the LFS, had my water retested and he agreed it was weird and that he would supply another six-line wrasse, free of charge, very generous and great customer service.
I’ve noticed over the past month now, that the level of coralline algae on the live rock has decreased dramatically. I believe this is a direct result of two long spine urchins that are out every night! There is one rock they haven’t been on yet and it’s obvious, it is SO purple! So the plan is, to catch them and take them to the LFS on Thursday.
Good news is that the chiller’s thermostat has been sort out and it is chilling the tank to 24.5-25 when it kicks in and not too much lower thankfully. One less thing to worry about for the time being.
I’ve noticed that my corals’ polyp extension hasn’t been as much as of late, so this is another issue that I will be looking at over the weekend. I can’t see any issues when I test the water, but we will just have to see.
Further, since the death of the blenny, I have noticed a bit of algae where he used to hang out – he must have kept it nice and clean – the two hermit crabs that I have now don’t seem to be too interested in going up there, annoyingly so. So the plan is to get another hermit crab or two hoping that they’ll clean the rock up a bit. I think also the algae might be growing more because the coralline algae has been eaten by the urchins so there is nothing to outcompete the nuisance algae.
So the plan is to:
Take the urchins in.
Get two hermit crabs.
Find out what’s going on with the coral polyp extension (potentially flow)
Continue to strive for better and a healthier tank.
