Arrrrggggg (Andy style) sorry to hear about the B&W Clown
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My shwvimps (Bubba Gump style) (peppermint 4) seem to be doing fine as far as I can tell. I just flashed the lights on quickly for a few seconds and saw one of them scurrying away from an aptasia (yyaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy). Have at it boys!!
I inadvertently got the wrong length VHO but luckily Ken's assembly was easy to adjust and I put the 46.5" light in where the 48" should be, with about 5 minutes worth of adjusting and all is well.
Right now my set up on the lights is as follows (for Ken mostly), 1 Actinic 110 watt, 1 Actnic R (or super actinic) 110 watt, 1 Daylight(10,000k) 110 watt, 1 daylight (10,000k) 110 watt @ 46.5". The first three are all 48" length.
The brightness of adding 1 more 10,000k and removing 1 actinic is very noticeable and the fish seem to prefer it much more than my original 3 actinic to 1 10,000k daylight set up.
My Halimeada is growing nicely too and I've got at least 3 decent size group patches. These originally came attached to some of the rock I got from Zach but quickly died off. Now, with no assistance from me, all the original algae as well as a few of the tiny brittle stars and one thumb sized starfish have all rebounded.
Originally, all the small brittle stars that came in on the rock (Zach's) seemed to have burned up in the tank despite the fact that all of the levels were normal.
The super scraper magnet or whatever you call it, bit me real good. When I was trying to seperate the two halves, to show my kids how strong the magnets were, I accidentally had it too close to my stomach and it slightly opened then bit me pretty good very quickly. I received a nice blood blister on my abdomen from it lol. Case in point, do not try this naked.
I am a completely untrained unprofessional.
One of the shwvimps already molted the first night too.
