Argh Its me!

Sorry for the horrid photo

Moi and RSM!

Soft coral @ LFS

(LFS = Local Fish Shop)

Leather coral - Mushroom/toadstool

Corals at the LFS

Mushroom anemone frag (bottom)

Polyp - Zoanthids (? top)

Test results (09.40am)

Here are the parameters for this morning

pH - 8.4
Salinity 1.024 to 1.025 - other reading 1.023
Ammonia - 0.25 ppm
Nitrite - 0 to 0.05 ppm
Nitrate - 5 to 10 ppm

I have noticed that the new thermometer may be a little inaccurate - according to another digital thermometer it is around 2 degrees out - so when it reads 25C it may actually be more like 26.5 to 27C

These readings were taken the morning after the clean up crew went in (initial introduction)

Next tank shot

The tank is looking a little better

A few extras

I also fancied some blue legged hermits and so 5 of these little guys went in with the replacement red legged and turbo snail

This is one of the blue legged hermits -

d'oh empty shells

I found that not all the hermits were in the bag, and one of the mud snails was also an empty shell - so back to the shop to get my red legged hermit -

and I traded the mud snail for a turbo

Clean up crew arrive (20th January)

The parameters of the tank were reading zero ammonia & nitrite and around 5 ppm for nitrate so it was about time for some 'clean up crew' - herbivores which will take up some of the diatom blooms in the tank

So yesterday I got hold of 4 red legged hermit crabs, 20 mud snails (cant remember the name) and 10 turbo snails....

Here is one of the red legged hermits during the night