[Eb0la11]

Ok, time for another update.

We've had some really cool things develop in our tank and one really horrible thing that happened.

I'll start with the bad. Our eel decided to commit suicide a week ago. I havent posted much in the last week because I was so ashamed that I even let this happen. We got the little guy and he was doing awesome. Swimming well, found a nice home in one of our rocks, was coming out quite regularly, we got him to eat nice and early and then we found him on the floor dried up.

We had a decent lid covering the tank, but he managed to evade it and escape through the overflow chamber which has an eggcrate screen in front and was make-shift covered until we could get a proper lid.

Because of that we've decided to slow down just a bit and sort everything else out before we keep buying livestock.

Since then we've been setting up the rest of the tank. We finally got a new circuit run from the breaker, a 20A one, and now we're getting the fuge going and our full light spectrum is now in effect instead of just half of them.

We have a deep sand bed of about 5" in our fuge that I seeded today from the sand in our DT. I'll also put in a couple choice pieces of live rock to help seed and then maybe in 4-5 more months we can get a mandarin once the fuge becomes a copepod factory.

Next we're going to get our auto top off working and figure out this skimmer that only wants to leak.

Once we have all systems going 100% we'll likely make a lid that is custom made for the tank that no eel will ever be able to escape from and we'll be looking for another.

Outside of that we have added three more fish. A blue tang and two blue/green chromis. We also bought two more pieces of live rock and a pulsing xenia coral that seems to be a 3 for 1 as we also have a new patch of about 6-7 quite small zoas on it and another coral I have yet to identify.

Next up, Im looking for some Chaeto for the fuge. Anyone willing to donate some of their weekly/bi weekly harvest?