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That storage cabinet is a great idea! My wife converted one of her old storage cabinets into the storage cabinet for our tank, haha.Couple of updates!
Went to Ikea this week and DIY'd myself a little storage cabinet.
The DIY part is the additional, half sized shelf. The idea is to have my dosing pump there and a little control board in the back behind it. I've not finished the control board for the 3 remotes yet, but the half sized shelf is in there. I still need to think about how I'm going to do the mini board.
For now I'm only dosing All for Reef, on a single Kamoer, but I may swap over to a 2 or 3 part system once this bottle is out. I find that my magnesium gets absorbed faster than my calcium, so every so often I need to manually dose extra mg.
On a different note, I got some new coral yesterday from one of the local reefers here. This gentlemen has a huge tank and took out like a 30-40 pound Acro. That beast will be the center piece for another tank but it was too big so several pieces were sawn of. Together with a piece of acro the size of my palm, I also got 2 smaller corals.
Little top view of the tank as of this afternoon:
So the cool thing is that I was able to take the piece, and essentially make an arch with it. I fixed it to the left rock, creating an overhang over the middle section. I'm not sure of it's really clear from the photos though. In the front you can see the 2 Montiporas, red digitata and a bicolor, forest fire digitata. I think They'll add some nice contrasts once they're fixed.
So the bad thing is that I had to take the rock out of the tank and fix the coral using the glue - epoxy - glue method, and then let it settle for a good 15-20 while holding it in place before adding it to the tank again. It was just too heavy to fix underwater. I suppose it's fairly visible, but it should be fine once it gets covered with algae and coralline.
My water did get a little cloudy for a few hours, and the Rhodactis on the back of the rock hasn't fully opened up yet, I think it's still angry from its time outside. The candy canes and other SPS's didn't seem to mind at all. I did add a little bag of activated charcoal to help filter out the residue and clear up the water. Surprisingly, the skimmer didn't go crazy ...
On a different note, my hermit whose mostly been very chill helped himself to a trochus snail house. I saw a snail making odd movements, went to check it out and saw 2 blue legs sticking out of it ... I think this is his 3rd victim now, after the 2 Cerith snails he evicted earlier.
I also noticed the GSP I had super glued (with Tunze Coral Glue) kind of completely dried out and calcified where I had the drip of glue. Since the GSP was a gift and the piece was only very small, almost all of it kind of dried up. There's a tiny bit left that's hanging on, with 3 polyps on it ... Has anyone else had that issue with Tunze's glue? Is it supposed to dry out the coral like that?
And finally, but this is more for a later stage, I did notice that in some areas, especially at the bottom of the corals and under the branches of the Acro I'm getting some receding tissue. I think the cause of this is the fact that these areas never get any light. With my single Prime16 fixed in the center, there's just some areas that now are in perpetual shadow. I think In the long run, I should probably upgrade my lighting game to a Hydra32, AI Blades or maybe even a Radion XR15, if I want to have better diffusion of light and more light coverage.
Anyway, that's all for today!