tank is doing wellish. corals seem fine for the most part, some growing well, some just hanging out, a couple just kinda deciding life isn't for them i guess, including my yellow diabolic pacman who tanked the metals fine, and now is like no copper well i'll just die back. i think my plan to add more light is going to be key, just seems like stuff could use some more par especially ones in areas not directly under or near the radions
i did lose my copperband somehow. i had her for almost 2 years and it was totally out of the blue. ate fine the day before, then the next day i fed and noticed i didn't see her, just dead in the back of the rocks. freaking sucks. she was my favorite fish and so personable for a fish, but i also lost my cat of almost 18 years prior to that so it was hard to get too worked up over the fish. aiptasia is already coming out. idk how i do it, but i grow aiptasia like nobodies business
to that end, i picked up a couple fish. a starcki damsel from shane and a pearlscale butterfly from reef lounge. both fish are uronema risks, but the starcki has been in a tank so he should be good and the pearlscale was a direct import and has been at reef lounge awhile, so hopefully it won't be an issue. i'll continue httm on them in the next couple weeks. i fed a LRS combo mix and they both went to town
whether a pearlscale is going to be reef safe is another question. i don't mind nipping, obviously, but i don't think i can allow just straight up destroying the corals. but for now it should be a solid fix. i'm going to try to avoid getting another copperband because even if it eats well, pellets are likely never on the menu. and i will say that makes it so much easier going on vacation just an auto feeder and i should be good to go. i will still feed frozen frequently as i think it's best for fish health, but it's nice to not have that crutch. the rest of the fish all eat pellets of some variety
i don't get what the hell with the copperband. i don't see any sign disease is present in the tank. she had some solid girth to her. i don't keep tangs solely so she wouldn’t get beat up, nobody else in the tank ever bothered her. frustrating, but what can u do
I also traded out my nano nem tank for some frags. I put them in my coral qt tank/invert qt tank which is currently invertless. And who knew but I took the cuc out like a month ago and it’s a mess now, galaxy brain level stuff by me. Me being too cheap to pay $6 for trochus snails at pet world has consequences 😂
so anyway I was able to remove the frags from the plugs so I can expedite coral qt hopefully, at least as the theory goes. Ideally I’d leave them in there a couple weeks but that tank makes me uneasy with some cool stuff I’d like to see not dead
rr firecracker
Rouge milli
Ora rose milli
Tsa fruity pebbles
Tsa twisted sister
Rr rainbow blossom
I do wonder if hairy acros are a bad idea with my fish, they just seem to not do well when they’re naturally hairy. So we’ll see how the Millis do. Shaggy stag and bleeding tree from bc both did bad, solar flare milli did bad, orange passion hated my tank.. but Walt Disney seems fine, so we’ll see I guess