KOgle's 180 diary

A week from tomorrow and I'll be at 12 weeks. Since adding some Epsom salt my levels are good and I'm really starting to see the coraline start to grow.

I'm planning on moving my Mandarin over first and my bubble coral. Also thought about moving my cup coral that same night. Those are the two biggest corals I have so I want to get them in a good spot.

 

Don't forget about my hammer frag!!!

 

Yea I won't. ;D Get me a piece of that trumpet ready...

 

1st peice dropped is yours!

Whats the update on algae, coralline, fish?? How are your levels looking and did you see a big spike during the cycle or did you not test?? Did you have much die-off from your invert additions? What kind of chiller you getting? Just a few questions I had off the top of my head, give you something to pass the time with at the desk!

 

The coraline is starting spread. It's a slow process but about the only thing I've got to watch in the 180 right now. The mandarin is getting very slim after 5 months in QT. I'm really thinking about moving him over early. Next Tuesday is the day and I don't think it would hurt anything to move him sometime this week. If it were a big fish I'd say wait. Just don't want to lose him after spending $60 dosing pods for the past few months...

on a much funnier note, I walked up to the QT tank last night and adjusted the timer on the light from the power outage and as soon as they clicked off I heard this weird noise. Well I happened to look down right beside me and my 6 line wrasse was laying on the floor. Guess I spooked him and he bailed. I scooped him up and tossed him back in the tank. No sign of him this morning on the carpet or in the tank.

I never even tested for amonia, nitrites, or nitrates. It's just one of those things that is going to happen so I just sat back and let nature take it's course.

The snail count in one of the overflow boxes is up to 12.

 

Ya no sign of my sixline still... checked for a carpet surfing trip but he didn't go! I hope he shows up damnit!! I didn't test my tank during the cycle either. Would have been interesting but would have cost a little more money too!

 

Yea I've tested during cycles before, it just is what it is.

I've been pretty patient this whole 11 weeks with the tank but now that things can go in there next Tuesday I'm getting impatient. Getting the itch now that I know it's here.

I think I could actually add stuff tonight becasue I didn't start the clock until I added the second clown...

 

Shoot your bow instead, keep your mind off of it;D! I know what you mean though.

 

Funny you mention that becasue that's exactly what I did. ;D

Might start making the move tonight. It's go time.

 

Almost forgot, took some pictures of the corals in the QT tank this weekend. Not many of them turned out that great because my camera is a POS but here are the ok ones...

Hopefully tomorrow I'll have some of these pictures with them in their new homes...