Well, the boys have been growing...
And growing....
Aaaand growing.
Currently I have a bit of a hair algae problem going on...Oddly I NEVER have had algae in the tank like this...I think that my damn LFS is using hose water to mix their salt with and not really giving me the NS (natural salt water) that I ask for... GRRR...So, I have a hideous bloom going on thats ****ing off my expensive zoanthids.
I got a few more snails and have been doing lots of water changes to keep the alk high. I even have a WAD of macro algae in there growing like crazy that seems to have slowed it a bit. I would prefer not to add a fuge to put even MORE in but we're getting a bit desperate. Unfortunately I made a mistake in buying a Sea Hare, giving my LFS (who is about 20 ft from the ocean) the benefit of the doubt and assuming they would NEVER EVER collect wild animals and sell them to people with VERY warm tanks, well warm compared to the icebath of CA. Anyway, got a lovely 2 in Sea Hare named him Copernicus.
Well...Copernicus seemed to be moving VEEEEERY slow, and staying in one spot for a looooooong time before moving. I offered a bit of Nori in case the various varieties of hair algae wasnt good enough for him, to no avail. The Hare parked itself RIGHT under my Gigas, Henry. So my Dad comes in for the nightly tank once over, marvelling over the growth of my candy canes, and suddenly I see purple dye leaking out of the Hare. CRAAAAAAAAAAAP! ALERT ALERT! This stuff does awful stuff to systems, even big ones, and mine is certainly not BIG. Oddly she didnt shoot it like most Sea Hares I have encountered in the wild, it was just oooooozing out of her rather grossly. I pulled her out, and stuck her in a pitcher, calling the LFS in a frenzy of rage, the tank started clouding up and I was doing a huge water change as we spoke.
They claimed they had NO IDEA that a cold water specimen would do poorly in an 80 degree tank.. YEAH RIGHT.
Anyway, where the ink touched Henry he has pinched a wee bit of his mantle.
Mind you that is about an hour after the huge water change so he might still just be ****ed about that. Thank god I had just picked up water. And thank GOD I was home when the Hare started spewing. Im dissapointed I didnt even realize it was a local species, being that I took about 20 marine ecology classes in the last four years. *sigh*
Anyway, just took a couple more pics for fun, I am a photographer by trade, cant help myself.
And growing....
Aaaand growing.
Currently I have a bit of a hair algae problem going on...Oddly I NEVER have had algae in the tank like this...I think that my damn LFS is using hose water to mix their salt with and not really giving me the NS (natural salt water) that I ask for... GRRR...So, I have a hideous bloom going on thats ****ing off my expensive zoanthids.
I got a few more snails and have been doing lots of water changes to keep the alk high. I even have a WAD of macro algae in there growing like crazy that seems to have slowed it a bit. I would prefer not to add a fuge to put even MORE in but we're getting a bit desperate. Unfortunately I made a mistake in buying a Sea Hare, giving my LFS (who is about 20 ft from the ocean) the benefit of the doubt and assuming they would NEVER EVER collect wild animals and sell them to people with VERY warm tanks, well warm compared to the icebath of CA. Anyway, got a lovely 2 in Sea Hare named him Copernicus.
Well...Copernicus seemed to be moving VEEEEERY slow, and staying in one spot for a looooooong time before moving. I offered a bit of Nori in case the various varieties of hair algae wasnt good enough for him, to no avail. The Hare parked itself RIGHT under my Gigas, Henry. So my Dad comes in for the nightly tank once over, marvelling over the growth of my candy canes, and suddenly I see purple dye leaking out of the Hare. CRAAAAAAAAAAAP! ALERT ALERT! This stuff does awful stuff to systems, even big ones, and mine is certainly not BIG. Oddly she didnt shoot it like most Sea Hares I have encountered in the wild, it was just oooooozing out of her rather grossly. I pulled her out, and stuck her in a pitcher, calling the LFS in a frenzy of rage, the tank started clouding up and I was doing a huge water change as we spoke.
They claimed they had NO IDEA that a cold water specimen would do poorly in an 80 degree tank.. YEAH RIGHT.
Anyway, where the ink touched Henry he has pinched a wee bit of his mantle.
Mind you that is about an hour after the huge water change so he might still just be ****ed about that. Thank god I had just picked up water. And thank GOD I was home when the Hare started spewing. Im dissapointed I didnt even realize it was a local species, being that I took about 20 marine ecology classes in the last four years. *sigh*
Anyway, just took a couple more pics for fun, I am a photographer by trade, cant help myself.
