Well the tank is maturing a little more each day! One of the inhabitants finally made a snack of the Cerith eggs and I ended up adding a cleaner shrimp.
I'm really glad I did too, because he set up his station right up front and has been fun to watch. The only other inhabitants I plan to add outside of any corals are the Pom Pom crab, a Tiger Conch, and maybe a few dwarf blue leg hermit crabs. Definitely no more fish though, everyone in there is getting along really well and seem happy and I dont want to risk that changing or getting crowded.
The female clown had me a little worried a couple times over the past week as she would sometimes lay really still on the sand bed next to the heater. And yesterday, she had developed a discolored spot on her side, right around where the tip of the heater might touch her where she would lay. They really love that heater for some reason and sleep near it every night, so I thought maybe she was getting a bit of heat exhaustion and the spot was maybe a slight burn. So I ended up pulling the heater a bit further out of the water and placed a piece of dry rock under it last night to hopefully discourage them from sleeping right under or against it.
This seems to have worked, or at least helped, because she is acting normal today and the spot on her side is nearly gone. The YWG and pistol shrimp have also gotten more comfortable in there and have started to show themselves more, even coming out of their cave right up front.
And finally, whatever that algae is certainly isn't nuisance algae because it is growing super slow.... but it is still growing
I'm really glad I did too, because he set up his station right up front and has been fun to watch. The only other inhabitants I plan to add outside of any corals are the Pom Pom crab, a Tiger Conch, and maybe a few dwarf blue leg hermit crabs. Definitely no more fish though, everyone in there is getting along really well and seem happy and I dont want to risk that changing or getting crowded.
The female clown had me a little worried a couple times over the past week as she would sometimes lay really still on the sand bed next to the heater. And yesterday, she had developed a discolored spot on her side, right around where the tip of the heater might touch her where she would lay. They really love that heater for some reason and sleep near it every night, so I thought maybe she was getting a bit of heat exhaustion and the spot was maybe a slight burn. So I ended up pulling the heater a bit further out of the water and placed a piece of dry rock under it last night to hopefully discourage them from sleeping right under or against it.
This seems to have worked, or at least helped, because she is acting normal today and the spot on her side is nearly gone. The YWG and pistol shrimp have also gotten more comfortable in there and have started to show themselves more, even coming out of their cave right up front.
And finally, whatever that algae is certainly isn't nuisance algae because it is growing super slow.... but it is still growing