I know I couldn't believe it! I was jumping up and down like a little girl when I saw them at the lfs.
There's so much activity that I see and find interesting that I figured I'd just write a daily journal about what each coral was doing and any changes that occur. I'm absolutely
mesmerized by them all.
Coral journal-5/29/11
Tank has been setup for 12 weeks.
Corals have been inhabitants for 3 weeks.
Today the deshayesiana was the most gorgeous, relaxed and extended than even before! Wow.
She didn't put out it's feeder tentacles tonight but did shrink when halides went out for the night.
But the cool thing about the mc tonight is that the clown goby hosted on her for the first time!
. And she didn't even look irritable nor did she shrink up in the least bit thank goodness. Yay!
Torch looked better this morning than it did later on in the day. Tonight I saw something small and fluorescent flowing past the front of the tank. It was a tip from the torch coral. I was like "what the?" then "uh oh", because ive read of polyp bailout before, and it usually is not good.
Then Doug explained that corals sometimes throw a polyp or do a polyp bailout as a means of reproducing. In other words the torch throwing one polyp isn't something scary necessarily. Though the fact that the torch has been looking irritable for the past 4 days is still on the back of my mind.
But it still is possible that the torch is simply a bit irritable at the clown goby beginning to host in it lately.
The original eagle eye zoas from the combination zoa rock had turned white the past couple of days. I was pleasantly surprised and relieved that they were looking SO much better and coloring back up and also fully extended today. Dunno what may have been bugging them a couple days ago.
The two rescue Palythoa were standing straight up firm and healthy all day. Since that last bit of dying tissue from the ark colony sloughed off yesterday morning they both look SO much better. I have a dollar bet with Doug that the paler of the two will have it's skirt turned green all around like the other one, by the end of tomorrow.
Not only that, but I counted 3 new zoa buds coming out on that same zoa rock.
I discovered a new glowing red baby zoa polyp on top of the red zoa branch in back. It was not there yesterday.
*squee*
The Ricordea look like they've grown about an eighth of an inch in just the last week. They've been fully extended and reaching up and gorgeous.
The radiata was beautifully extended today. At lights out time he shrunk up only slightly as he has done almost every night since we've had him.
Last night he elicited a small feeding response for the first time. His mouths opened for feeding as soon as the food was in the water.
The lobo stayed looking good ALL day which is a first. She doesn't seem to be irritated anymore when the goby hosts in it. It's outer red tissue was puffier and more colorful today. And the inner fluorescent parts were even more fluorescent and more green.
We both saw two tiny feather worms on the outer area of the lobo. At first we thought it might be aptasia, but we both caught the feather going inside it's tube and the tube still sticking straight up. Aptasia has more of a pedal disk type of connective tissue at it's base, not a tube.
Gloop (the mystery mushroom) looked gorgeous all day as usual
Saw all inverts today. All look and act healthy.
These bulbs throw a ridiculous amount of PAR. And the corals are LOVING it.
We did our weekly water parameter testing today before feeding the fish.
Ammonia=0
Nitrite = .2 ppm (yikes?) why the slight jump we don't know but were proceeding with care and have water already made for the weekly water change tomorrow.
Nitrate 10ppm
Ph 8.1
We fed flake only today and we didnt broadcast feed as we did last night.
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. so we came up with an idea. Here's a picture of our "food containment cone of silence"
