Clowns are doing great in TTM. They've been moved twice, with the next move scheduled for tomorrow. I haven't seen anything wrong; they're active throughout the day and eating at every meal offered.
Friday, I received my 15 gallon CUC package from reefcleaners.org. There may be a few that didn't survive the trip but most of the snails are alive and well. The nerites are at the top of the tank as can be expected, but the rest seem to have acclimated and are actively cleaning the glass, overflow, rock and corals.
Yesterday morning, one of the snails crawled up the hammer coral and knocked it out of the rock it was wedged into. It was upside down with its head on the sand/rock. I picked up the two of them (snail was still on the side) and found a more secure location. I don't LIKE the new location as it is a little too close to the frogspawn (see below concern). I need to pick up some more JB waterweld to secure it anywhere else so it will stay where it is for now. It does appear to be more open than it has been since I got it though, which is great.
I also increased the max blue on my lights from 30 to 35. Whites are still max at 25.
Finally, I did a ~20 gallon W/C, using up the last of my Kent salt mixed with IO. Nitrates are still up a bit higher than I want so I'm planning another 20-25 gallon W/C soon. Chaeto is growing as well. Not fast, but it's growing.
I bumped one of the candy cane corals with my arm this morning and it almost immediately turned a bit dark and retracted. Two hours later, it's recovered. Whew! Lucky for me this one is very hardy (it's the same one that fell from the rock previously). I'll have to watch where I stick my arms a little better.
5/31/2015
NH3: 0
NO2: 0
NO3: ~15
PO43-: 0
SG: 1.026
Mg: 1410
Ca: 480
dKH: 8.3
Temp: 80.1F
FTS from this morning, including some of the newest snails:
Now, one thing that I'm curious about are these white "spots" on both the euphyllia. Is this something that may have been there all along, just covered under algae? Snail eggs? Damage from the other euphyllia? As mentioned, the hammer is more open than it has been and the frogspawn is definitely open and eating well when fed. But what IS this and should I be concerned?
Hammer has lots of them:
Frogspawn just has a few:
