Micro star ( like no one's seen them before :rolleyes: )

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Mushrooms on Kevin's rock. There's lots more - probably over 1/2 dozen I can see

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Are these tube worms the kind that grow in your sump and such when there's too many nutrients ???

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Nothing exciting here. Just trying my hand at a youtube thing
Here's the chaeto tank in action

http://youtu.be/B3B2yIX97-4

looking good Mang.

I could be wrong but if your using the chaeto fuge to grow pods as well, the flow might need to be a bit slower

I'm not overly worried about pods yet but that's a good point
It's funny you mention that as I'm still kinda fine tuning all the flows and while it may be a lot for the chaeto I'd still like to have it rolling some
Each time I turn it down I have to adjust the drain rate so it's a slow process

Things are lookin' up

Diatoms started a couple days ago, so the cycle isn't stalled. Nothing out of control to speak of, just some here and there. I wonder if all the snail poo has re-started the cycle - hmm ...
All DT params are great. Nothing to measure except a trace of NO3

Last night we started seeing copepods all over the glass and now they are visible daytime too. This makes me happy. They must have come from the chaeto

We now have 5 astreas, 12 margaritas and 4 red scarlet hermits. All are busy cleaning the rock and giving us something to watch.
I installed the red moonlights today, on a 1 hour timer, so we can watch stuff after the lights go out

Waiting to put the new LR in ... probably this weekend
I won't say the rock is ready by any means, but now is the time to mess the tank up
Today's readings, in 9g of water, are NH3 0, NO2 0, NO3 1+ and PO4 1-2 ish

I don't want to wait another month or 3 curing the rock in a tub, so into the system it goes :lol:

And something funny to me ...
I turned my back on the DT for about 5 mins, after watching the hermits for awhile. I come back and one of the dudes has gone from the extreme left rock pile to the extreme right one. He's pickin' away at another hermit, they get quite close for a min or two, then he leaves. The other hermit carried on afterwards, so no harm.
He had gone down the tower of rock, across 3 feet of sand, up another tower of rock and straight to another hermit.
Only conclusion I come to is mating

I ended up having to keep the flow where I had it
The chaeto wouldn't tumble otherwise and I'm not overly concerned how it will affect the pods as it's just motion, not flushing :smile:
If the pods can't hang onto a ball that big, they deserve to end up in the DT :mrgreen:

my guess would be, attempted shell-jacking.....hermits are somewhat criminal:twised:

exciting times when those pods start taking off (or appearing at all). it's amazing how long you can sit and watch them when you're in that phase of a build.

i've got hawk eyes for seeing little things in my tank and i have not seen a pod in ages during lights on. the wrasses are masters of the hunt.

That's what I thought at first, and the attacker was quite a bit larger, but nothing came of it
There are lots of similar shells at the base of both rock piles
I guess when you want that particular one, you're gonna go for it

I know once we start adding hunters they'll disappear, but it's nice to know there's some food about