Deeper Well - An Acquasole 60

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As of last night, I couldn't*find the waspfish. Orange male clown looked fine, as did the watchman goby and radial filefish, female black clown had super cloudy eyes and*was still*breathing super heavy after changing carbon and adding a whisper 60 with limewood airstone a few hours before the evening feeding, at which the remaining fish all ate well.

Several leathers are all shedding at once, and three of them all detached from the rocks they were attached to, which I've never seen before. Then again, I've also never had this problem before.

I did finally get everything moved into my new side stand holding the ATO tank and got the ATO hooked up, filled up, and put four teaspoons of kalk in it. Ants are gonna be in for a big surprise if they decide to try and get a drink from that tank.

As of this morning, however, I was only able to see the black clownfish. The orange clownfish and my waspfish are confirmed dead, and the watchman goby and radial filefish were nowhere to be found. I will know this afternoon if they're still around. Corals all looked better, though, even without any lights on (photoperiod doesn't start until 10AM).

The culprit is more than likely these little scent diffusers that my wife put around the house late last week, one of which she put just a few feet from the tank. The film on the top disappeared the day after I took the diffusers off (which was Monday night), but it looks like the damage was already done.

 

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FTS 9/20/2015

The sole survivor.

 

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Despite them eating, I lost both resplendant anthias I'd gotten a few weeks back. I had heard resplendents are pretty touchy, but damn. Ordered another foxface this week, this time a magnificent (Siganus magnificus). I had also gotten a Fijian male lyretail anthias, but it did not survive shipping and was DOA.

30ish gallon water change today (about 85-90% I think).

All drained!

Filling back up. The foxface is still super skittish, but what little I have seen of it it is already nibbling on the hair algae in the tank.

I also got an Apex setup, I got tired of waiting on Fishbit. Got a 'Classic' and got a set of double junction pH and ORP probes. I figured as much, do I did finally get to see exactly how depressed pH in my tank is due to having to keep the windows closed all the time and not having a lot of fresh air in the house.


And here are some fish pics I took this week.

 

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FTS 11/13/2016

My starry blenny just jumped up to the front of the tank, which was kind of odd. Then, he scooted his back up to the glass and then kinda shimmied across it like he was scratching an itch, which was even weirder. Then, he turded the biggest load I've ever seen from a fish :O

Dude's starting to warm up to me. Still a bit skittish if I come up to the tank too quickly.

Haven't seen any kind of color or polyps from the small leather that is in focus in the center in quite a long time. This one was from DD months ago as a dark green base with I think fluorescent polyps, but it deflated completely in the 40 and I had basically written it off, but kept it in the tank just in case. Might turn around?

I can finally keep GSP! yay!

Been a long road for this gorgonian. Basically everything but the stem died off, all the branches faded away so I cut them off, and slowly but surely they're regrowing. This one is SUCH a slower grower.

 

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My SPL - small polyp leather. It's been super droopy for the past month, month and a half or so, and haven't seen the polyps out in a few months maybe? I haven't taken a ton of pictures of the corals after moving to this new tank, so I don't have many progression photos.

'Mind blowing' palys. Still don't have the color they did back in the 80g tank.

Fiji yellow leather.

This is a hard one to focus on (had to get it at an angle to the glass and it couldn't focus properly), but dead center the fluorescent green bits are some of the tentacles of the cristata I got from Saltcritters a while back. The polyps slowly bailed out on it over the last month or so and I just noticed today that they actually settled there. I wonder if it will just die or if it might try and regrow there.

 

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Quick shot from earlier.

Finished some LED strips for something.

I also realized today that I'm going to have to redo my electrical stuff. Currently, all my wires and stuff are just jumbled together inside the cabinet drawer with most of the power supplies sitting on the shelf above the ATO reservoir, and the wires for everything (including the conductivity probe) are run together. Whenever the lights and such are cranking up for the day, conductivity spikes exactly as the system does, which means I'm getting some wicked interference. Gonna have to resolve that (and recalibrate the probe after, as it's saying salinity is 25ppt lol).


Also, a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral tonight carrying NOAA's new weather satellite, GOESR.

This is after the first stage had dropped off.