2006/05/07

Water change & maintenance, and feedings

Water change:
  • 3.5Gal
  • 32oz FW replacement (to lower salinity) Post SG = 1.0245 - no more adjustments necessary
  • Used the Aqua Medic Reef Tweezers to remove a great deal of various smaller macro algea (~1/2 cup) that proved difficult to remove otherwise.
Feeding:
  • 3 drops of LiquidLife's MarinePlankton (made with Cyclop-eeze)
  • 1 tsp of DT'S LIVE Marine Phytoplankton
  • ~1/10th tsp DT's Natural Reef Diet (Oyster Eggs)
  • 1 "feeder fish" by California All Natural Pet Foods & 1 cube of Mysis shrimp - they were eating slowly towards the middle of the amount, so I discarded the last 1/4. The normal bi-weekly feeding will be reduced to just 1 cube/feeder fish.

I used the turkey baster to put some of the macro food right into the Blastomussa wellsi colony . Once they "close" around the food, it was easy to see that there are 7 children around the base. I've noticed some before but now I have a good count.

Since the "Salvadore Dali" Blasto incident had resolved itself, I noticied the other day that the dropped frag still had a live piece of coral on it. I moved it up and wedged it (hopefully) by the original colony.

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