Harmanrk's Nano jurnal

[harmanrk]

Did my first attempt at fragging yesterday. Took a large colony of Zoas, and used use the dremmel to score the base rock, before spliting about a third off. Both frags have fully opened today, and are looking great.

After While placing the frags back into the tank, I discovered a sea spider (Zoa eating spider). He has since found hiw wat to the water treament plant, but I an hoping I do not find any of his friends.

Pictures will be included next week with April's Update.

Robert

[Sweetpea]

Looking good! I can't wait to see the full tank shot!

[DaRkAnGeLs7]

So are you going to get the powersweep sweeping again, or just leave it as is?

[harmanrk]

The Powersweep worked for about six months. during that time, I had to pull it twice to flush the mechanicals because it had jammed. The third time, enven tha good cleaning did not work. I have manually (brute force) pointed it where i want it. I would not really recomend one, unless yoiu are comfortable with replacing it every six months.

In this hobby, the last thing we need is a high maintaniance powerhead. We all know the tanks themselves are high maintanance enough..

Robert

[jojo22]

Looking very nice!

[harmanrk]

Bad news....

Went on vacation for the holiday weekend. Weather turned hot. Returned home, and the house was 88 degrees, the tank was 90...

Fish look fine.
Crabs look fine.
I have not seen any snails since our return....
Zoas seem fine.
Monitporia seems fine.
Mushrooms and Rics are open very small.
GSPs barely opened yesterday.
Sun Coral polyps seem mushy, and it is producing slime. I expected four days to be a bit long between feedings, but I think, that plus the heat my have been too much....

Added ice cubes to the filter chamber, and but my topoff water in the freezer to cool it (it was 88 same as the house). Was able to get the temp down to 80 over 5 hours... Back to the green zone this morning...

Water tests show Nitrate being a little higher than normal, everything else it about normal for my tank.

Robert

[Sweetpea]

Sorry to hear about your troubles, but it does sound like you're getting things back under control... keep us posted.

[perpetual98]

Keep us posted on your temp issues. My pico over the weekend got up to 88, but there's only a couple shrooms and some zoos in there. I wasn't terribly concerned though. Restocking a pico is cheap.

[harmanrk]

Temp is stable now. GSP is not wanting to open again today. and the Sun coral is looking bad.... The heads are all sunken in and stuff....

Robert

[lReef lKeeper]

GSP are pretty hard to kill ... i would give them a while to open back up. my temp got a little high and they closed and did not reopen for about 2 weeks but now they are growing like weeds. as for the sun coral as posted on the other thread, you might consider trying your hand a t fragging the good new heads from the rest, if nothing else you could save at least a few of them. if they all come back then you will have 2 sets of them.