I did the usual weekly maintainance in all tanks. Fed Kyo before doing the water change because he only ate half the usual amount for breakfast, so a snack was in order.
Speaking of snacking, the snails MissPriss and Baldy have surfaced, grazing on the areas where I’d pulled algae earlier, though MissPriss has been on ledge rock for quite a while knocking back the microalgae among the macro. Drew hasn’t surfaced in a while. He used to be my most cryptic snail but the two baby snails in the picoreef now are competing for that place.
Lately I’ve only seen one at a time. Since a noticeable difference in size developed (though they are still really small) I can tell that I’ve been seeing the larger one the past couple of weeks and the smaller one a couple of times this week. The picoreef still doesn’t have filtration back on it yet, but I’ll do that some time this weekend.
Calypso and Cortez have been hanging around palace rock a lot lately. It has always been a favorite spot for Calypso anyway. It has some tiny light colored spots on it right now. Not sure what it is, but I’m keeping an eye on it.
I’m also keeping an eye on the cyano. I removed the remaining patch this afternoon because it looked like it was getting worse instead of better and I didn’t want to blast the tank with cyano remover again.
The sun coral is looking fat and happy. I’m feeding it mysis 3-4 times a week. Oddly, the shrimp haven’t been hanging around the cave trying to snatch any bits up this week. A pleasing, unexpected development. They do not need mysis: they get plenty of Kyo’s cast off food pellets. Which reminds me…a couple of times a pellet has fallen onto a sun coral polyp and I’d swear it ate it. I wonder if that’s a good thing or a bad thing? It’s only happened twice and I’ve seen no ill effects, but I wouldn’t want them to have a steady diet of it.
Elle is looking very, very good, her crown bigger than ever. I’ve been giving her a bit of mysis and mysis juice, too.
The lights have already turned to twilight now that daylight savings time is over. I hate resetting them. It should be easy, but it never turns out that way.
Time to log off and feed Kyo supper.
(I usually wait a bit later for the corals, when they’re more fully open.)

