Harmanrk's Nano jurnal

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

Here are photos of the new additions. Hope to get a full tank shot this weekend to add.

http://home.comcast.net/~rharman8677...post/kenya.jpg

This is the Kenya Tree. Four stalks total. and they seem to really like their new home.

http://home.comcast.net/~rharman8677...ost/shroom.jpg

I really love the blue strips on this mushroom.

http://home.comcast.net/~rharman8677...post/strip.jpg

This frag as a total of three of these green strip mushrooms.

http://home.comcast.net/~rharman8677.../post/zoas.jpg

New Zoa colony. Not really happy with the concrete-ish base, but once the coraline takes hold, you'll never notice.

Robert

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

As promissed, The full tank shots.

http://home.comcast.net/~rharman8677...Y/fulltank.jpg

The full tank. Coraline is starting to get troublesome on the front glass.

http://home.comcast.net/~rharman8677...Y/tankleft.jpg

Two Mushrooms, Kenya Tree, and Zoanthids being walked on by a crab.

http://home.comcast.net/~rharman8677...tankcenter.jpg

Kenya Tree, Torch Coral, Sun Coral, Montipoira, Green Star Polyp, Zoanthids, and Orange Ricordia.

http://home.comcast.net/~rharman8677.../tankright.jpg

Orange Ricordia, Green Ricordia, Green Strip Mushrooms, Zoanthids, and Birds Nest

Robert

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

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

Added a hammer, and Split the Green Star Polyp. <Edit> Also changed out the old lights for brand new bulbs. 96W 10000K PC, and 96W O3 Antinc. <Edit>

Full Tank

http://home.comcast.net/~rharman8677...t/MAY/full.jpg

Left Side of Tank

http://home.comcast.net/~rharman8677...t/MAY/left.jpg

Center of Tank

http://home.comcast.net/~rharman8677...MAY/center.jpg

Right Side of Tank

http://home.comcast.net/~rharman8677.../MAY/right.jpg


Robert

Looking very nice!

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

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