New Additions

Hello all! It's been a while since I updated, I've been very excited with my tank this week so here are some tidbits!

• My first helfrichi died after three days. How sad and discouraging It was replaced under warranty and the new one has been going strong for two weeks! The new one isnt as buddy buddy with the other fish as the last one, but this one is a lot more active and eats a broader variety of foods.
• Visited PHISHY BUSINESS in columbus and snagged a beautiful purple/green/blue

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Got three new additions for the tank. They are happy and healthy little guys, though their exact names I do not know.

first is this guy


then this one I think is encrusting montipora


fraggle rock guy
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I bought some pet r...I mean live rock on Friday!



I actually said "pet rock" when describing live rock to a friend today. Most of my aquascape is base rock from Marco Rocks, and I purchased several small pieces of live rock from a local store to seed the tank with yummy bacteria.

The live rock on the right side will eventually fill the gap near the center of the aquascape, but I have it in the open sand and close to the ...

I'm pretty happy with how clean and stable my tank is now since adding an algae scrubber last spring and switching to 2 part dosing instead of just using kalk in my top off. So I decided it was time for some new corals.

So started browsing Reef Koi's web site and here's what I came up with.



One little Acro frag. Colors aren't too bright yet, but this is a green coral with purple ...

... I found myself in Dirk's booth looking for treasure for the new 400g. Picked up a new cleaning magnet for the 3/4" thick glass, three 300w heaters, a Coralife Turbo-Sea 1090 pump for the 265g saltwater reservoir, and two new bulkheads for the new sump I'm going to build.

I saw lots of nice corals at very affordable pricing. Wish I could have brought some home, but there's no benefit to doing that now.

EDIT: Here's a picture of this weekend's haul. Included ...