Snow_Phoenix Posted October 23, 2021 Author Share Posted October 23, 2021 I absolutely love these hitchiker purple sponges. 🥰 The new blue hairy shroom is developing well too: New yuma has developed even more brighter colors than before: I found the tiny green hairy shroom that I rescued from the 60G. Unfortunately, it is still brown & very much shrunken. 😕 If ever it regains its original size and color, I'll leave it as it is because hairy shrooms don't quite get along with other corals nearby. There are 2 pieces that I have to cut my losses on - the microgoni & the small pea-sized fragment of the purple encrusting monti. 😭 In the case of the microgoni, most of it is covered by algae with one or two specks of pink left on it. As for the monti fragment, it is bone-white. Both pieces deteriorated slowly over the weeks, and there was nothing much that I could do, umfortunately. 😔 I'll be removing their remains from the nano tomorrow. My red lobo is definitely bleaching out. I sense a nutrient issue - possibly a lack in PO4s & NO3s due to a lack of fish poop. 🤔 Most of my LPS are overall okay at a passing glance, but are simply less puffy than usual. I think this issue will slowly correct itself once I re-add some fish to the DT in Dec. Until then, I'm quite reluctant to manually dose anything to bump up NO3 or PO4 levels - mainly because I'm afraid it will upset the delicate balance the tank is on as it is. So I'll just stick to WCs and buffer dosing for now. 🤔 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted October 24, 2021 Author Share Posted October 24, 2021 My LPS are much happier today. 😊 The cyano is back, of course, but I think the nitrates & phosphates are finally at where it is needed to be to keep the rainbow brain large & puffy again: The leptastrea's green colors have darkened even more: And the tiny bubbles on the tiny yuma look more developed. I *think I can see a tiny mouth in there as well: 2 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted October 24, 2021 Author Share Posted October 24, 2021 I'm also seeing improvements in the zoas & palys. The purple monsters' skirts are more even and less wrinkly, although the color will probably take more time to come back, if at all. 🤔 The butt munchers are beginning to re-open as well: The Zoa Ledge: A partial angle of the full Zoa Garden: And, Harvey (colors darkened & dulled out to focus on him alone better) : 😊 4 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 Mushroom Mountain is fully open today: Ironman discosoma now has 3 baby shrooms: Forest fire shroom has assumed an interesting shade of blue at the base: 🤔 A bristleworm out looking for leftover pellets: 2 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 Fusion on the plug almost complete! 🥰 Twin heads on the trumpet coral look more distict: 👍 John Deere leptastrea: It is quite resilient. Here's a small patch accompanying my chili pepper monti cap: Acans with a red finger leather & a forest fire digi stick: 4 Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Looks fantastic. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 2 hours ago, debbeach13 said: Looks fantastic. Thanks, Deb! 🙂 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted October 27, 2021 Author Share Posted October 27, 2021 My fire shrimp, Pyro, will be living in the nano as I try to tackle the velvet outbreak in my 60G using peroxide. He meets Harvey's approval: 😅👍 4 Quote Link to comment
chipz Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Those clove polyps are just stunning! 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted October 27, 2021 Author Share Posted October 27, 2021 10 minutes ago, chipz said: Those clove polyps are just stunning! Thank you! They can be a bit invasive though. I have them on the other side of the tank as well, but some polyps actually decided to grow *over my zoas, so I had to gently scrape those off. My primary LFS has different varieties in their main *warehouse (just calling it that, but it's basically a large central building where they grow out various coral pieces before moving them out to the stores). But this is the only variety I've seen in their store so far. 😅 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 Pyro suffered from a very bad molt yesterday. I initially presumed my yellow CBS attacked him, until I saw one of his malformed pincers (tiny & shrunken), with partial antennas and missing legs. I woke up to this, this morning. 😕 The brain ingested him rather quickly. He was already partially in the coral's mouth when I woke up. 😕 2 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 On a less dreary note, the monti fusion is almost complete, and there are already nubs growing on the surface - the signs of new branches about to form: Mushroom mountain looks so different in the mornings, when the shrooms are still shrunken, and their colors are more intense: Harvey, luckily, is doing fine: Shrimpy is okay too. 👍 3 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted October 31, 2021 Author Share Posted October 31, 2021 Growth & recovery: 2 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted October 31, 2021 Author Share Posted October 31, 2021 Need to do a WC soon & clean up the cyano. 🤔 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted October 31, 2021 Author Share Posted October 31, 2021 The original mushroom mountain in my 60G, back when it was a full reef, exactly 2 years ago from today: These are the two shroom morphs I'll keep an eye out for to be added to my current shroom collection in this nano in the *future. 👀 2 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 A lot of updates coming through. I took a lot of pics today. 👀 Update #1: I WCed 8G of the tank today and performed some routine maintenance, including vacuuming the cyano off the sandbed. Also replaced the carbon & floss. Corals looked much happier after the WC. 🥰 FTS today on 02/11/2021: Also, Harvey immediately molted after the WC, and the molt was successful! 😊 He was happily walking around the tank right afterwards too! 😅 3 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 Update #2: I spotted Shrimpy as well. 😊 Took some random coral shots: Weeping willow: Rainbow acans now have 6 (!!!) heads and are growing more. The original green streaks on the coral appear to be making a comeback as well. 👀 Ironman shroom was a bit moody after the WC: Baby yuma developing a tint of orange in the center: Orange leptastrea tried to eat his green neighbor. Had to separate the two. Orange is fine, the green one has lost a bit of flesh on one side, but should recover: 4 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 Update 3:- Forest fire digis: Garf bonsai: Cloves: John Deere's - a birthday gift from my LFS around 2 years ago, which started from a super tiny patch, to this today: Pavona & lepto combo: GSP wall: 3 2 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 Update 4:- Starburst Implosion paly: Different angle of the weeping willow toadstool: New duncan head is developing well: Sunny Ds from 2 different angles: Blue peacock zoa mini colony: 4 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 Update 5:- Zoa Ledge is doing very well! So many new polyps recently. 🥰 Butt Munchers have almost recovered fully: Purple Monsters have regained darker colors a *bit: Gold Mauls still have 5 polyps, and hopefully will develop more. Rastas & blue hornets have developed a 3rd polyp each: Tricolor death palys have almost doubled in numbers, but still have not regained their full original colors yet. 🤔 5 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 Update 6:- Superman discosoma finally has more pronounced *blue dots again: Forest fire shroom now developing a cyan (?) base color? 🤔 Tricolor bullseye rhodactis: Blue hairy shroom: 4 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 Last update! 🥰 Mushroom Mountain, taken from 3 different angles: Quick bonus of Harvey enjoying the flow from the Jebao: 😅 https://www.instagram.com/tv/CVxC9GApQdu/?utm_medium=copy_link The only two corals currently having issues is the red lobo brain (colors are still pale with a bleached corner) and the blastos (taking some time to regrow, but still remain shrunken). Otherwise, I am observing some growth and more intense color development in most of the pieces. 😊👍 5 Quote Link to comment
kimdawg Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 This tank is beautiful as always. I wish I could get some of those colors in my tank. 2 1 Quote Link to comment
Critteraholic Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 Don't know how you kept up with this and all the problems of your other tank. YIKES! This tank, as always, is stunning! 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted November 3, 2021 Author Share Posted November 3, 2021 1 hour ago, kimdawg said: This tank is beautiful as always. I wish I could get some of those colors in my tank. 1 minute ago, Critteraholic said: Don't know how you kept up with this and all the problems of your other tank. YIKES! This tank, as always, is stunning! Thank you both! 😅 2 Quote Link to comment
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