cowfootball's Cade Reef 1200 S2

[shadyraro]

Your tank is coming along nicely!

 

[cowfootball]

Back from Hawaii to a healthy tank. Ugly phase is well and truly in process but fish and coral are healthy. YWG is nice and chunky. He happily pops up to the top of the tank to grab the mysis shrimp that's rehydrated from the Avast Reef Jerky.

I put some TDO Chroma Boost in the second feeder before I left just to make sure everyone was healthy and happy but it just ended up deposited in random dead spots around the tank. Annoying for parameters, which were still fine (0 ammonia, 5.1 nitrates), but helpful for identifying dead spots. I had the flow turned down to make sure the YWG could eat so I'm going to start progressively turning it back up.

The Kraken Reef lid came today and boy, it’s a work of art. Extremely good quality. They custom cut holes for my plank auto feeders and the fit is perfect. I’m really pleased how this came out.

 

[afternoondelight]

Im sure that's a relief to come home to no problems!! I'm leaving for the keys for a week on Saturday so I will be hoping for the best when I get home...

 

[cowfootball]

Pod population has gone insane. All of the white specs in this first shot are pods — when the lights are out you can see them scurrying around. Similar situation in my sump.

YWG hasn’t been coming up as often for food but I suspect he’s having a pod snack here and there.

First part of the ugly phase has completely cleared up, probably as a result of the pods and just general age and maturity of the tank.

 

[cowfootball]

Live view of the affectionately named and rather fat Mr Goby chowing down on some pods as they pass his cave.