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Dear fellow fishkeepers
Back with an update at 3 months; things are maturing nicely!! For those who don't know I have a 24g D&D nano which I started cycling 13 weeks ago. My losses so far have been: 1x skunk cleaner shrimp, 1 of 4 polyps on a Euphyllia ancora (hammer coral) and 1 of 2 polyps on a Euphyllia Divisa. Both polyp losses were incidently around the time of acclimatisation; an all too familiar scenario. The remaining polyps are florishing which is really nice. I have two clowns, Ted (spikey orange dorsal fin) and Dolly (Black edge on dorsal fin), and they are really active. I also have a Diadema (black long spined sea urchin) the species though is not known. I would hazard a guess at D. Setosum because these are one of the commonest available to aquarists but not 100% sure. He was initially bought to combat my problem with excessive caulerpa growth and I was informed by several members that he would do a nice job cleaning up. Up until now he has not touched a single strand of caulerpa and has focused all his effort to ridding my tank of coralline algae!!! and shouting at him "NO DON'T EAT THAT, EAT THE GREEN STUFF" doesn't work surprisingly. As SH says once settled in they cruise around the tank not bothered by my presence. They actually poop rock, how about that!! Hermits are growing fast, one has changed shell twice now. His present shell reminds me of a little kid trying on Dad's suit; a little big at the moment
. The turbos are still around eating what hair algae is left and the fine strands on the glass. What is really interesting is the vents on the back of my GSP I don't think were part of the GSP. I think it was a sponge because that has shrivelled and died unfortunately but the GSP is really health. Anyway I have just left it for the time being adding no new live stock for a number of weeks. I have redirected the little cash I have into learning to dive. I think it will be much more pleasurable to see marine life in the wild; I do have a list of sharks that I want to dive with. Oceanic white tip, reef white tip, hammerhead, black tip and whale shark are a few of the species that I would love to track down and swim with. We are all allowed to dream aren't we lol.
Picture at bottom is green star polyp. The top left is frogspawn coral and top right is hammer coral.
Regards
Back with an update at 3 months; things are maturing nicely!! For those who don't know I have a 24g D&D nano which I started cycling 13 weeks ago. My losses so far have been: 1x skunk cleaner shrimp, 1 of 4 polyps on a Euphyllia ancora (hammer coral) and 1 of 2 polyps on a Euphyllia Divisa. Both polyp losses were incidently around the time of acclimatisation; an all too familiar scenario. The remaining polyps are florishing which is really nice. I have two clowns, Ted (spikey orange dorsal fin) and Dolly (Black edge on dorsal fin), and they are really active. I also have a Diadema (black long spined sea urchin) the species though is not known. I would hazard a guess at D. Setosum because these are one of the commonest available to aquarists but not 100% sure. He was initially bought to combat my problem with excessive caulerpa growth and I was informed by several members that he would do a nice job cleaning up. Up until now he has not touched a single strand of caulerpa and has focused all his effort to ridding my tank of coralline algae!!! and shouting at him "NO DON'T EAT THAT, EAT THE GREEN STUFF" doesn't work surprisingly. As SH says once settled in they cruise around the tank not bothered by my presence. They actually poop rock, how about that!! Hermits are growing fast, one has changed shell twice now. His present shell reminds me of a little kid trying on Dad's suit; a little big at the moment
. The turbos are still around eating what hair algae is left and the fine strands on the glass. What is really interesting is the vents on the back of my GSP I don't think were part of the GSP. I think it was a sponge because that has shrivelled and died unfortunately but the GSP is really health. Anyway I have just left it for the time being adding no new live stock for a number of weeks. I have redirected the little cash I have into learning to dive. I think it will be much more pleasurable to see marine life in the wild; I do have a list of sharks that I want to dive with. Oceanic white tip, reef white tip, hammerhead, black tip and whale shark are a few of the species that I would love to track down and swim with. We are all allowed to dream aren't we lol. Picture at bottom is green star polyp. The top left is frogspawn coral and top right is hammer coral.
Regards
. The Zoa which were pioneers to the tank have re established their colour and are looking healthy. Now we get to the top tier which is home to the Euphyllia Spp. They are really looking healthy and I can not wait for an opportunity to frag them, which is incidently fast approaching. Between the two of them, the hammer and frogspawn, when fully expanding their polyps cover almost the entire width of the back wall of my 24G. They have also developed numerous new polyps which are growing beautifully at a respectable rate. Another striking feature is their ability to tolerate each other. The polyps of the frogspawn are frequently intermingled with the polyps of the hammer and neither seems to mind. I assume this is the case as both are in excellent health and follow a predictable circadian rhythm with regards expanding and contracting their polyps. The frogspawn has also ditch the sweeper tentacle in exchange for a peaceful coexistence with it's fellow invertebrates. The Gondi of the marine world........ 
. I will post some pictures when I take them but until then you can use your imaginations and speculate on what it looks like. Oh yeah the macros is no more; all gone to where I am not sure.
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I don't think I'd ever be up to that.
