Progress

Seriously, LOL!! That's too funny Steve, thanks for the early morning chuckle

 

Checking out the tank tonight I noticed what had to be 10-5 soft tube feather dusters starting to grow around the tank. They each look like they have this....I duno, ball sprouting out of the middle of the feather cluster. I also have 2 that look like spawn of my duster, lol.

I also found what I think is a SMALL branching coral with long tentacled polyps on the end. WAYYYYY too small to tell yet.

Found a weird black tubeworm with a clear/opaque tube. He goes back in his hole with any light getting to him (is in a shaded area of the tank)

 

always an adventure eh whippy? very cool for you tho.

 

Yerp!!

I'm glad folks like this thread. I have a horrible memory so it's more of a blog for me than anything.....yes, I realize theres a blog section, LOL.

I'd like to be able to look back in 6mos, 1yr, hell even 15 years and watch the progression of skill

 

So finally some pics! Here's my algae blenny, some coralline with some ulva in the back, my zoas and my clown.....Firefish was shy
Sand is MUCH cleaner now







And one of my snails

 

I'll be adding a cleaner shrimp and 2 more peppermints soon. I'm also picking up a spotted green dragonet to take care of these pods. They're getting NUMEROUS and some are BIG!!

Only one spot of GHA and that's infront of the zoas. I had some NICE pics of them under the actinics but I used the wrong funtion in the camera and they saved as TIF files so I have no way to upload them

 

Those are very, very nice Zoas Whippy, I can get the lovely purple ones out here

I would if I could, I think they look excellent

Steve

 

Thank you!!

That pic does them no justice as I'm just learning the functions of my new camera.
The mouths are very bright yellow/orange and the tentacles are reddish with green tips!

 

So I'm very confused tonight....
I just saw my snails (turbo snails) spawn in the corner of my tank. They were releasing jets of "smoke" or sperm and egg.
At the SAME TIME my feather duster released a puff of smoke and dropped its crown

Should I be worried? I have no idea......

Goopy stuff stuck to everything after duster and snail puffing.....



Snails......you know.......


Duster after losing cap:


Feather duster looked like this before.......

 

I also found two VERY VERY small jellyfish in the tank. Onewas on the glass, it looked like a little bubble with tentacles. I pushed it off of the glass and it started pulsing through the water. SO FREAKIN COOL!