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  1. Rock cleanup day

    It has been a while since I last posted, mostly due to lack of time due to work overload.

    Which obviously meant I also had little time to take care of the tank, and it went backwards.

    My 4 mithrax crabs gradually died (of age I believe), leaving me without valonia eaters, which isn't good. One of the mithrax crabs (the hardiest of them, last to die) apparently was of a different species and I caught him eating my zoa colony. Moved him to the sump a month ago, and I ...
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  2. Roach in sump...

    Today I had the wonderful surprise of finding a dead roach floating in my sump, apparently already decomposing... but probably not for too long as it was still in one piece and apparently still had a body.



    Well, removed and dumped it, then took the opportunity to clean up my skimmer's cup, which was smelling pretty bad... the worst I've ever smelled it....

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    Sump , ‎ Cleanup