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The half we kept is doing well also. It would still be considered a monster sized coral anywhere else but now looks pretty diminutive in its spot to me. Check the full tank shot again and tell me what you think. Perhaps I can find a 6-8 headed piece somewhere and stick it between it and its now ‘distant’ neighbor. Or maybe I should just get a life and let it be.
Everything else with the tank is stable and pretty much status quo. I’m still fighting an occasional battle with both encroaching zoanthids and mushrooms here and there but I’m finding that a little Joes Juice really works with the zoos. For the shrooms? Scissors, if I can reach them. It’s only a temporary solution as they eventually do come back but this is the penalty I pay for putting them in there in the first place. I’m thinking that the only way to permanently rid the tank of them is to discover that they are a very rare species and going for $500.00 apiece on eBay. Then, by the very next day, you can be sure they will all be dead…most likely whacked by some mushroom eating nudibranch that didn’t exist 24 hours ago. Can you tell I’ve been doing this a long time?
But back to husbandry, I also did a little bit of rearranging and fragging of the corals due to growth but that’s about it.
And for those of you wondering how “the worlds ugliest efflo is doing after its fragging last month, in a |
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word: Marvelous. In fact, here are a couple of images. The first was taken 2 weeks after  , and the second was taken around the end of the month . By now, you would be hard pressed to tell it had ever been fragged (except for its rather odd triangular shape) and we’re only talking a six week healing period so far. Now I REALLY feel like an idiot for waiting so long.
And finally, I ordered an ‘Atlantis Aquarium Pink Polyped Montipora’ frag from Steve Tyree but I won’t get it until late this summer. Hopefully, by then I can find the room to put it.
As for the fish, I’m still thinking about pumping up my Anthias population a little and maybe adding a pair of Genicanthus Angels but I haven’t really made a move to either just yet. It’s not that I’m lazy (well, I am but that’s not the reason I’m waiting in this case). It’s nearing Spring Break and the time of year we all trek to L.A. for a couple weeks. Since I drive (and I AM gonna drive this year), I have to leave earlier than the family and return later. And this may be especially true this year since I do a lot of photography in the surrounding deserts and all the recent rains portend a spectacular wildflower season. But, as far as the tank is concerned, I almost never add anything new before I go anywhere; sometimes up to a month before I go anywhere. It’s just one lessthing to worry about and my one of my goals in |
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