cindy's cadlights 8g: on writing deadlines! :O

[cindyp]

Sorry about the tank woes! Hang in there.

 

thanks jaime! i did another water change yesterday

and the dendro has reemerged with tentacles. i was

so relieved and happy!

 

didn't mean to be a nervous nellie, but i had lost

the blasto so fast, i was expecting the worst. he even

ate yesterday, so yay!

 

also, amazingly, i went to bed around 1am last night

and out of nowhere, i got the denouement and ending

for my sequel that i've been working on.

 

THAT is always the best. i had the setting, dialogue,

so much. funny thing is, i didn't remember again until

NOON today. haha thank goodness i remembered. aiiiii

[teenyreef]

That's great, what a relief! Did your alkalinity improve after the water change?

[frankdr]

did another water change yesterday

and the dendro has reemerged with tentacles. i was

so relieved and happy!

 

Glad to hear the good news. Reading everyone's aquarium success and failures is like a novel itself..

[cindyp]

hello friends!

 

hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving

and enjoying the long weekend!

 

i got my replacement mini tide yesterday and got

it up and running this morning.

 

so i took time for a not great 13 week FTS! it's not

the best due to challenge with reflection and i'm just

using my phone, but it gives you an idea. my frogspawn

in the corner has split to two heads and is getting BIG.

aiiii. not sure what kind of shuffling i'll have to do when

it outgrows that corner.

 

all the flower nems are gianormous. i feed them at least

3x a week since i feed my goby and blenny daily. so nems

get fed a lot. the neon orange mushroom has already made

two babies, and the original and first baby have left its

frag and moved onto the live rock.

 

ALL the shrooms are doing great! and by dendro seems to

still be a little moody, but healthy and well.

 

4 week Full Tank Shot

 

13 Week FTS

[kimberbee]

Wow! Everything really is growing!

 

You get your nems locally, right?

[cindyp]

Wow! Everything really is growing!

 

You get your nems locally, right?

 

i do! i bought three from ASD that giant neon

green one was on sale for $25. couldn't believe it.

there are some amazing over at VIP (or there were)

but i couldn't stomach the expensive shipping for one

nem. owner of ASD has said it's been challenging to get

more nems during winter months. but i have three happy

ones for now. i might pick up one more if available again.

 

i LOVE my nems!

 

thanks, kimber. yes, the progress fotos are always fun.

i'll do individual progress if i ever get the chance.

 

off to go work on novel now for a few hours!

[cindyp]

the dendro has been in my tank for 4 weeks.

as TINYREEF has said, he is very flamboyant!

and has mostly been big and gelantinous, though

of late, it's been closed for a bit more often, i've

noticed, i'm hoping to rest?

 

i *think* it's grown. but due to its personality, it's

almost impossible for me to tell.

 

dendro 1st day in tank (not fully open yet)

 

dendro today (4 weeks in tank) including my poor receding

plate and favia. i haven't made it into LCS yet for dips or dosing

stuff yet either. busy weekend.

 

 

my blue agaves have gone from two to six! these are the only

palys i have! only they and my zoas are thriving, i don't find myself

drawn to them right now to buy more.

 

 

 

 

 

what hasn't done well in tank 13 weeks in:

 

 

 

dragon soul favia

fungia plate

(both receding)

rainbow acan

(receding and lost colors)

 

WOW! the blues have come on on my mini

tide as sun sets and the corals are *glowing*

amazingly! had never seen that before in

my tank. amazing.

[gena]

I'm not a dendro expert, but yours looks perfect to me . Those agaves sure are pretty too!

[antsypants]

Looking good your dendro looks like its gonna be just fine.

Do you have a hammer in there? I just picked one up and I love it!

[kimberbee]

Is it possible your mushroom is shading that blasto?

 

I know that my ric wasn't doing great, but I realized my hammer was shading it too much. Moved the hammer and now the ric is getting better! It just wasn't as big and poofy as I thought it should be.

 

(P.S. I just posted some acan pics!)

[cindyp]

Is it possible your mushroom is shading that blasto?

 

I know that my ric wasn't doing great, but I realized my hammer was shading it too much. Moved the hammer and now the ric is getting better! It just wasn't as big and poofy as I thought it should be.

 

(P.S. I just posted some acan pics!)

 

my blasto is ded.

it was near the zoas, but nothing was shading it.

i moved it at the end, but it was too late for him. so sad.

 

i'll check out your acan fotos!

 

Looking good your dendro looks like its gonna be just fine. Do you have a hammer in there? I just picked one up and I love it!

 

i did! the purple tipped hammer coral is my newest

coral purchase. i like it a lot! the colors are beauitful and

it's doing well!

[kimberbee]

my blasto is ded.

 

[gena]

I think that's a dragon soul favia??? Or something like that below the red mushroom? I'm not sure, but maybe they do require more light than a blasto. Maybe try moving it to a medium light area since that looks pretty low light in that photo.

[cindyp]

 

i know. it died within 2 days. from my

noob perspective, i didn't even know

anything was wrong until it just shrank one

day. then second day, dead.

 

I think that's a dragon soul favia??? Or something like that below the red mushroom? I'm not sure, but maybe they do require more light than a blasto. Maybe try moving it to a medium light area since that looks pretty low light in that photo.

 

yes, it is! it was my freebie! it was on

rock in full light then since it receded

i decided to shelter it, as so many advise

to do. i will try dipping next. i try to feed it

but the fishies keep stealing its food or swimming

by and knocking pellets out of it's "face" mouth area.

[gena]

 

i know. it died within 2 days. from my

noob perspective, i didn't even know

anything was wrong until it just shrank one

day. then second day, dead.

 

 

 

yes, it is! it was my freebie! it was on

rock in full light then since it receded

i decided to shelter it, as so many advise

to do. i will try dipping next. i try to feed it

but the fishies keep stealing its food or swimming

by and knocking pellets out of it's "face" mouth area.

Oh, ok. Well, leave it there then. Hopefully once you start dosing to get the alk up it will make a recovery!!!!!

[antsypants]

i did! the purple tipped hammer coral is my newest

coral purchase. i like it a lot! the colors are beauitful and

it's doing well!

 

Awesome! Thought i saw one in there haha. Is it fluorescent green with purple tips? We might have the same one.

[frankdr]

i didn't even know

anything was wrong until it just shrank one

day. then second day, dead.

 

Oh yeah - these little underwater worlds can be heart-breakers when things like that happen. Once they come into our hands, we're responsible for them and we take it personally when one dies under our care..

[cindyp]

Awesome! Thought i saw one in there haha. Is it fluorescent green with purple tips? We might have the same one.

 

yes! it has neon green beneath.

 

they were selling neon green and purple tipped

ones at my LCS, and i opted for the all purple. owner

said these are from indo, versus the others which

are australian. i sort of regretted my choice for a nanosecond,

but now i don't at all. i love the all purple tips and peep

of green beneath.

 

Oh yeah - these little underwater worlds can be heart-breakers when things like that happen. Once they come into our hands, we're responsible for them and we take it personally when one dies under our care..

 

isn't that the truth?

[antsypants]

yes! it has neon green beneath.

 

they were selling neon green and purple tipped

ones at my LCS, and i opted for the all purple. owner

said these are from indo, versus the others which

are australian. i sort of regretted my choice for a nanosecond,

but now i don't at all. i love the all purple tips and peep

of green beneath.

 

Oooooh, just saw it in your FTS haha, yeah it looks really nice! Aaaaand why not both? kidding kidding (maybe)

[teenyreef]

Looking great! The new light looks really good. I love watching the corals glow at sunset too. One of my favorite things about the Nanobox.

 

Fingers crossed for your acan, though. There's definitely something wrong if you are saying you have trouble feeding them. In my tank, the acans are the easiest corals to feed. Just hold a Mysis shrimp close enough to touch them, or squirt some Cycolpeeze on them and they pretty much suck it in like a vacuum cleaner. There's really no time for other fish to steal the food. When they are receded like you've described it's really hard to get them to eat. Have you tried feeding them after dark? They usually open up better then. If you can start feeding them regularly they will get nice and puffy and will eat any time after that.

[reefernanoman]

Your progress looks pretty good.

[cindyp]

OH NO. i just noticed one of my flower

nems is MIA. the one that was "cuddled" up

to the larger. how can this even happen?

 

quick glance around my 8g and i can't see it at all.

unless it's hiding behind rock work. wah!

 

i have an appointment so can't look more right now.

ps. i didn't think they could move THAT fast.

but i didn't look this morning as i had a skype session

with a HS. wah!

[kimberbee]

Mine hides away sometimes too. Try not to worry, but look again later. Mine tends to pop out of the rock work after about 2 days.

[cindyp]

Mine hides away sometimes too. Try not to worry, but look again later. Mine tends to pop out of the rock work after about 2 days.

 

OKAY! i saw it scrunched on either side of rock

right before i left. it is in a dark crevice though. and

now, it's moved again. i think it's trying to divorce

from the other nem. remember i put the new neon green

one next to it to cuddle--the thing is like 3.5 inches across

now and BIG. maybe smaller nem wants some space?

will continue to observe. thanks, kimber!

[owenj]

Most of my RFAs continuously walk around on their big rock. Only one or two have stayed put the whole time. My bigger green one likes to stay in one place for a few days, then moves somewhere new for a few days, then moves, etc. It's made the circuit of the rock a few times now . One of my orange ones went underground (rock) for a while to emerge on the backside of a different rock. I can see a wisp of its skirt through the rocks, little bugger. It never gets fed since I can't reach it/barely see it back there, but apparently that's where it wants to be.

 

I've read a lot of conflicting advice on lighting for favias--some say medium to bright light, others say low. . My Baby's Breath hasn't changed a bit since I got it, & I've tried low and more mediumish light. It also never extends feeding tentacles or shows any inclination to eat. I give up