Not exactly sure what this little coral is, but I noticed it today while cleaning out the thank.  Some sort of encrusting coral, probably a small polyp stony, which is interesting considering my low lighting and flow.

Not a great pic, but the best I could do.

Did a lot of cleaning today, and everything is looking pretty good except for all the mushrooms, which are not doing well. The rics are growing, two of them have grown another mouth. I did give the urchin two loose individual zoa polyps, just for the hell of it. Also, Stupid McGobyface (as I have finally christened the YWG) has taken to perching on my big zoa rock, which pisses them off and means they're closed all the time.  Dumb thing.

Found the nasty little ric back behind/under the rockwork. Digging it out required that I remove ALL my rocks, and when I put 'em back they didn't look as good, so I need to re-do it again tomorrow. After I get another net, because it's honestly impossible to do much in there with the clown chomping on my fingers every 5 seconds. There certainly is never a shortage of things to do, that's for sure.

Zoa rescued from urchin and glued back down, I think everything should be pretty secure now, only thing I want to re-do is one of the rics, just because I don't know if I like where it's at. 

Moved a couple of the rocks around a bit, might buy a couple more pieces to fill everything out a bit, and make room for future frags. 

Got my chaeto and a couple of striped nano stars from SeaLifeInc, made a little net cage for the chaeto in my middle chamber, so hopefully I won't end up with it all getting sucked into my return pump like last time.

Pretty blue ric has floated itself off to parts unknown, which annoys me, it was IMO the prettiest one. Need to find it. 

New Arrivals!

Got my new CuC from Reef Cleaners and some new livestock from Sea Life Inc.


Reefcleaners CuC:
The snails all look about like snails. A few extras, most of 'em seem fine. Got a few each Nassarius, Dwarf Ceriths, and small Nerites. The Fuzzy Chiton has moved a bit, seems ok. Same with the two Limpets. Even the four hermits are pretty cool, one is in a Cowrie shell, and the other three have kind of lemon-lime green legs.


SeaLifeInc order:
I got some ricordeas that look really, really good! I'm very impressed. I ordered 3 different single mouthed specimens, and they sent me those, plus a really pretty 3 mouthed one free! The hairy stars both seemed fine, then retreated into the rocks. I assume they're nocturnal. The urchin has been moving around, I hope he does well, very cool little thing. The zoa frags look good too, one is on a frag plug and the other was basically loose polyps that I just scattered around my existing zoas for some extra color. The zoas were supposed to be five polyps each, and were more like 10-12 each. 

I forgot to get more Superglue gel at the store today, so for now everything is placed rather tentatively.  I'll try to get some good pictures after tomorrow's water change has settled, but here are some quick night shots.

Nano Red Bristle Starfish and 3 mouthed Ricordea

Pin Cushion Urchin

Single Ricordea

Single Ricordea

3 mouthed Ricordea

Firefish croaked during the night.

Don't know what was wrong, the water tests fine and the B/W Clown and YWG are both perfectly happy.  


Just got back with my replacement fish, doing well so far, but then again so did the last one at first. Fingers crossed.

I also got two little bits of rock, one with 4 blue mushrooms and one with ~25 greenish mushrooms. They're small, but I think worth the $30 I paid. We'll see how they do. Pics when they acclimate and open up.