Purchases, tests, water changes, observations, pictures

Purchased from Jim's:

• Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Ammonia Test Kit
• 5gal container
• 10gal NSW
• Tram Rio replacement suction cups

Tank looked much clearer when I returned home, but it was definately still suspended particles, and was somewhat cloudy.

Side view of tank, having cleared substantially:

The whole tank, having cleared substantially.

Tested Ammonia: (perhaps just) >0.00 ppm, and definately <0.25>

Performed a 3.5gal water change. Thats the maximum I could change given my current rock and coral configuration; I had to turn off the main pump to do so, without doing so it would be a maximum of 2.5gal. I'll do another change tomorrow morning.

This exposes a weakness of sump-less aquarium tanks: without a sump to to
keep the main tank water at a high level, water taken out is limited by the
"headroom" between the highest water level and the top of highest livestock in
the tank.

The Porcelain Anemone crab (Neopetrolisthes ohshimai) looks a bit odd. It seems to have red/brown/pink-ish splotches on it. It kinda looks like it has coralline algea growing on it.

Electric Blue Hermit crab (calcinus elegans):

View of tank from above:

Star Polyp colonies (Order Zoanthidea/Zoanthids) - retracted:

Red algea, home to many tiny snails, and a couple serpent stars: