The Goose Tank

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4 drops of fozdown and my PO4 went from .07 to .01 in 2 days.
Since the big water change my cynarina (I think that's what it's called) is starting to bubble up and expand. The torch is really starting to extend out.

My new fish is a really scaredy cat, hides as soon as you come near the tank. At least it's eating off the rocks and glass. Hopefully he starts eating when I actually add food to the tank.

The red flower coral looks a little limp but all the polyps are extended.

Going to change the carbon today to the new stuff from Eli.

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Recovering nicely




Can you see him?

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Weird, so I'm getting ready for a water change and decided to test my new water. Here are the params
Salinity 1.025
Alk 10.4
Mag 1100
Ca 350

I couldn't believe how low the mag was, tested it twice. So raised it up a bit as well as the calcium.

I'm getting to the bottom of my h2ocean bucket so maybe that could affect things.

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Let there be a refugium!!!!



Got some cheato from a fellow reefer, threw some rock in and got a 100w equivalent LED par 38 bulb (5000k) for some light.

I really want a mandarin goby so hoping for a healthy pod population. I went to Pisces and got their three pack of copepods rotifers and phyto. They say you're supposed to replenish it every 2-3 weeks. The bags they give you are about 2 cups big and you can see the little buggers swimming around.

Also picked up some clean up crew since I really don't have any. So to start I got 5 bumblebees, 5 astrea, 5 cerith and 1 emerald crab. I might get two more emeralds since they are really cool to watch.



Already making tracks

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How cool is this?!



Emerald crab cleaning up my Duncan.

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Day one of toadstool recovery



Just got a toadstool coral from a fellow reefer that wasn't doing well in his tank. Hoping it can recover in mine and colour up. I could barely get a toothpick into the side so I could put an elastic band around it to try and get it to attach to the rock. I'll leave like that for about a week and see if it attaches.

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Day 3,
Looks like it's trying to move off the toothpick a bit and go down the rock. Hopefully attaching itself. Definitely getting more open. Where it's been closed for a long time is discoloured and lacking polyps.


The clown is hosting the torch and eyeballing the new coral.