So the algae problem seems to have gone away for the most part. I took the plunge and bought some additional live stock. The first fish is a orange spotted prawn goby. I also bought two corals, a GSP colony and a orange zoa frag. Since I only had a few snails I added two more astrea's and a turbo snail to the mix.
Now I have a fairy tale peppermint shrimp story. I went to Red Coral and Kevin had two large peppermint shrimp. I have had a lot of aptasia and have been wanting to get a peppermint shrimp to keep up on it. I heard they can be very reclusive and depending on the shrimp may or may not go after the aptasia. Well I have had great success with these shrimp. They started going after the aptasia right away and now I can't find one in site when I had 15-20 lurking before. Alhough the shrimp do like to hide somewhat I can always see one of them at one point or another and they come out for mysis feedings.
I will put up pics of the fish and shrimp etc later but until then here is my favorite blue porcelain crab and the GSP.
Palmer