Performed a 2.5gal water change.

New food and feeding

Bought from LFS:

• 1oz (30ml) DT's Natural Reef Diet (Oyster Eggs)

Feeding is recommended at 1 ml (1/5th tsp) for a 50 gallon or larger aquarium. As my tank is 24gal, I need someway to measure 1/2 ml (1/10th tsp) - I had to guesstimate this time.

harvesting and trade-in

This morning harvested the LR frag with 3 stalks of Xenia that had fallen back on 2/14, and brought it to Jim's for trade-in.

Performed a 2.5gal water change.

Feeding

Feeding:

• 5 drops of LiquidLife's MarinePlankton (made with cyclop-eeze)
• 1 tsp of DT'S LIVE Marine Phytoplankton
• 1 "feeder fish" by California All Natural Pet Foods

A LR Frag with Xenia was dislodged

A liverock frag with 3 stalks of Xenia became dislodged and fell off the top rock. It landed fine on the bottom sand, stalks upright.

I'll have to turn it in to Jims sometime this week when I have time.

Maintenance

Performed a 2.5g water change.

Used Aquarium Systems/Marineland HoldFast to position 2 LR frags strategically on base rocks. One will be for the Xenia on the top, the other for the small growth of Xenia that will soon become a problem for the frag of Green SPS (Merulinidae Hydnophora, possibly grandis or ridiga), and my Blastomussa wellsi.

The my 1" Ricordea mushroom with orange ring (Corallimorpharia Ricordea) is looking much better now that I've moved (both mushrooms) the rock to a new place:


Live Rock frag in place by Green SPS (Merulinidae Hydnophora, possibly grandis or ridiga), and Blastomussa wellsi:


Live Rock frag in place by pulsing Xenia:

New purchases

Brought into Jim's the the livestock I harvested, and received (along with some credit left over):

• 2# of Live Rock frags (2-5") for the back filter section of the tank, and future livestock fragging.
• Aquarium Systems/Marineland HoldFast

Harvesting

Removed the following and turned them in for trade at Jim's Exotic Fish:

• 5 large stalks pulsing xenia (Xeniid), on one piece of live rock
• 6x green hairy mushrooms (Order Corallimorpharia) on the original piece of rock I bought 5 of them on. 5 still remain on the nearby rocks

Remaining green hairy mushrooms (Order Corallimorpharia):

Feeding, and rearranging

Feeding:

• 4 drops of LiquidLife's MarinePlankton (made with cyclop-eeze)
• 1/2 cap of DT'S LIVE Marine Phytoplankton
• 1 "feeder fish" by California All Natural Pet Foods

Last night I noticed that my 1" Ricordea mushroom with orange ring (Corallimorpharia Ricordea) looked a bit ragged at the edges and perhaps a hermit crab may have been picking at it. Today it didn't look so hot either, and I've noticed for some time that my green hairy mushrooms (Order Corallimorpharia) have grown quite large and may be "stinging" the Ricordea. So, I moved the rock with the two Ricordea to the side of the tank where it will have more room.

Ricordea mushrooms (Corallimorpharia Ricordea) looking shabby in its old location:


Ricordea mushrooms (Corallimorpharia Ricordea) in its new location:

Maintenance

Performed a 3gal water change.

Removed the lone 1/2" polyp or anemone from the large clump of brown kelp in the front left of tank, since I strongly suspected it was an Aiptasia (Aptaisiidae "Rock", "Glass") Anemone. Luckily, removal was easy as tossing out the part of the kelp it was attached to.

Feeding

Feeding:

• 4 drops of LiquidLife's MarinePlankton (made with cyclop-eeze)
• 1 tsp of DT'S LIVE Marine Phytoplankton
• 1 cube of Mysis shrimp