We have corals!!! 😍😍😍😍

We ended up taking our Superman Rhodactis out of the main display because he wasn’t looking very happy 🥺 When I was acclimating him to the nano tank, I noticed that Bristle-worms had made a nice little home inside his rock and underneath his body. So I spent the time removing the ones that were annoying him most, while slowly adding more of the nano tank water to the container. Literally as soon as he went into the nano tank, he was already looking so much better! This Superman Rhodactis has 3 heads and is super pretty, I can’t wait for him to come out in full! We added 3 x other Morph variant corals too and a small Zoathiad frag! Yay! So excited!! 🐠🪸😍

Our Happy little reef tank! All our Zoathiads are popping off right now, so is our mottled green tip hammer and of course our all our different types of mushies! I love reef life! 🐠🪸🥰

Nano Tank Update! 🐠🪸

After the last round of Salifert tests showed the alkalinity had dropped and the calcium had dropped. We decided that it was a good time to do our first water change to try bring it up! We did approximately a 20% water change, maybe 16l all up, and left it for 5 days before retesting.

Results are in! Alkalinity is up, Calcium is up, Nitrate is down, and Nitrite is gone! Pretty stoked with how it’s going, can’t wait for fish! 🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠

The 80L AIO Nano reef is cycled and ready to go! In the last week we added in the manual filter roller mat and the Jebao DLW-5 Wavemaker to help move that detritus out through the roller mat and skimmer. We have been just dusting off the rock work daily to help loosen it up as well.

Parameters, Our Ammonia and Nitrite has been at zero for 2 weeks now, our alkalinity is sitting at 7.3, the nitrate is sitting steady at 10ppm, and calcium is sitting a little lower at 370 which is fine for a no livestock tank.

The plan now is for a 20-25% water change, keep loosening the detritus from the rock and skimming it out. Dosing copepods and phytoplankton that we culture ourselves, and hopefully add in a pair of clowns in the next week or so! 🐠🪸

Anyone else have a big bad boss of the tank fish who waits for you to hand feed them? 🤣 because same, this is Foxy - our one spot foxface rabbitfish, and she waits until I’m holding her food to eat 😅🤣 Otherwise she gets a little grumpy at the other fish because she’s 8 now and our Anthia annoys her during feeding times 🐠🪸 #fishdiaries #fishdrama

Got everything ready for the new tank! Got our 80L AIO Nano reef tank, cabinet and everything we need to start today! Keen as! 🐠🪸🐡