Coolness. I think I know him from another board.
No I haven't accomplished much of anything on the tank lately. Looking for a job has been taking up most of my time, that and I'm getting very lazy on my terminal leave.
Everything is thriving in the
QT so I'm not too worried about that right now. I have the two holes drilled but they are not big enough for the bulkheads to fit in so I need to grind them some more. (Note to self: Never drill a tank with dremels again. It's too much work. Get the diamond tiped hole cutting bits instead.) In fact the Pocillipora is encrusting the
pvc stand that I made for it. The
Acropora Millepora is still making a great recovery. It's a baby blue color now under the 14K lights. The Zoanthids that I almost killed are coming back really good now but they are a brighter orange with less green under these new lights. And so are the pink ones that I posted about a while back. I had a couple of snail spawning events in the
QT and one of the keyhole limpet babies actually survived and is growing. It's about 1/8 inch long now. I'm not worried about the limpets eating all of my coraline algae, I have plenty of that to go around now. I had originally pulled them out of the 55 gallon and put them in the
QT to let the coraline in the big tank grow without being eaten.
I'm thinking about plumbing the rubbermaid tub that the fish are in to the
sump though to give them a little better water quality. The cheato will enjoy the nutrients too. I can replace it with a propagation tank when I get things finished.
I need to start thinking about hurricane season coming up too. I have a battery powered air pump that works well for short term outages. But nothing for 3-5 days worth of post-hurricane power outage. If it goes longer than that I'll have all of my stuff packed in a big rubbermaid tub in the back of my car heading inland. Somewhere where I can plug in. That's another good thing about having a nano-tank. Everything will fit in a rubbermaid tub if you have to evacuate.
