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[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Diatom bloom. Cleaned the walls.last night. I know I am truly blessed to have u here Brady. Glad ur here. Lol
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[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Six line wrasse and the domino damsel got eaten by the toadfish.
Fairy flasher wrasse didn't make it through acclimation and I found dead wedged in one of the top rocks.

Here's some of the fish that are doing good. Tank has the diatom ugly brown rn.
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Order is in with reef beauty's.
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Need to stock up on the cuc as I anticipate more ugly stuff coming. Lol.
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Picked up around the reef today.
Plucked empty frag plugs up. Glued some coral down. Cleaned the walls and around the bottom rim. Blew the detritus around off the bottom and the sump area. Cleaned the skimmer cup and neck.
My order includes 3 blue reef rock crabs. 2 blue coral bandit shrimp. They say are really nice blue.
...and 5 naso unicorn tanks. 2 med. 3 sm... *cough *cough. Lol.
Ty all wish me luck.
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[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I am truly in love with this protein skimmer. Gonna upgrade the thumb screws on my pellet reactor to those hardware snap style ones. Than I'll love that too... LOL
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The reef underwent a lot with the swap over. I semi rushed it and just wanted to get it done. Lost 2 fish. Snails. Corals. Sucks. Tank got too cold one night.
Low.flow ect in the tub.
Currently a lot of diatom and brown algae from the new rock and all the dead dry aptasia that was left on it to dry out. Lol.
Peppermint shrimp have worked. Filefish is picking on my acans I think.
Lol. Joys of a reef tank. Thanks for looking.
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Feeding time. Some of the Peppermint shrimp. I might pull the filefish out. I like acan coral more than him. Lol.

 

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Amazing. The only difference is a cuc and an ats and the algae is coming back in the display.
I will get on the ats and aiming the light back...
Also I need to add a less large cuc and let em do it over time this rd vs. Just adding a bunch and letting em starve.
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I'll be receiving 5 naso unicorn tangs in less than 10hrs. Lol. Gonna mix up some sw in a bucket to replace some acclimation water I plan to cup into them. Wanna take it easy and slow with these guys.
Excited I am...lol. to get fishys.
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Acclimation day today/this morning. Lol.
I acclimated by dumping tank water over an hr than added to my tank. No lights today as I go to work. Might leave early today. Lol.

 

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I didn't get pics of the Blue CBS as they are tiny. Like 1/4".
Great packaging and delivery and communication and prices though. Lol.
I'm watching u dang toadfish! Lol
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[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

As he sits here staring at me. Lol
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[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

New tang fish seem to be doing well. Got outta the shower and flipped the lights back on for 5mins.
Turned em off and ran to work
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Day 1
With the new 5 naso tangs. Lol.
Im officially dubbing them acclimated.
I'm excited as I've tried two I think in the past with no success but this group I think will do good. Healthy. Acclimated. Big tank. Some have blue spots and some don't.
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Raising my salinity from .024 to .026
Or trying to lol. Just fed this and it was devoured by the tank. Feeding it again and off to work!
Tangs are doing well enough I'll leave the light timer going. Got a cpl crappy top downs well my wave boxes were in feed mode. Lol. Rocks nasty. Coral trying to recover. Still awhile till I'm back to buying coral I think.
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More bad phone pics of the reef!lol
Happy Thursday r2r
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Da reef