Well, I just did a water change and the tank's a little cloudy. I'll take some pics in the morning
I can't say there's a large amount of entropy in my tank, but maybe a little... :twitch:
The shoal grass is finally growing, along with the new widgeon grass. That stuff gets tall! It easily reaches the surface after a bit of growing, and I just trimmed it down a lot. I think I read somewhere that widgeon grass can grow on rocks? Not sure if this is true, so I put some in the seahorse tank to find out.
The Johnson's is constantly spreading, but since its leaves are so delicate I always accidentally remove a ton with each water change.
The turtle grass is growing! Most of it died off, but a couple plants remain and are getting taller every day.
I'm not convinced seagrass needs high nitrates to grow. Mine have been under 5 lately (not on purpose, I blame the caulerpa that's spreading like wildfire), and the grasses are doing better than ever. The sandbed is the only other source of nutrients, so it must be pretty rich currently. I've been feeding my fish more lately, and that equals more poop. Any thoughts on this?
On the reef side, the corals aren't growing much and aren't looking their best. I think this is due to the mysterious low alkalinity of around 5.5, and I've started adding baking soda every day to raise it. I use this calculator:
http://reef.diesyst.com/chemcalc/chemcalc.html
Hair algae is still persistent. The ATS isn't growing very well for some reason. I think I'll try lowering the photoperiod of the scrubber. I really want to get a tang to eat it, but I don't want to risk it eating the seagrass. Maybe a Ctenochaetus tang would work, but I haven't seen any of those in the local shops.
As for the mysis project, they all disappeared again! I was feeding BBS daily, but they slowly dwindled to 0. The tank was room temperature, it was thoroughly oxygenated, salinity was 1.026, and water quality was good. I might try again, just not anytime soon...
