Oh gee, I wrote this on my BlackBerry yesterday, but never got around to sending it. I’m not going to rewrite all the “todays” and “yesterdays” in these notes. Set your mental clock back one day while reading. The only thing I have to add is that the sun coral is still closed, I didn’t attempt feeding last night, & am going to do another 1 qt water change this morning. Though I suppose putting those notes at the top here in present day, present tense, only confuses the time sense of the following notes even more.

Forgot to mention last week that one of the shrimp had molted, probably Tam since he’s growing so fast.

The cyano has already returned to the mini-reef — something I’m really not happy about since I’m putting very little nutrient in the tank and the skimmer is skimming. It has reappeared on Elle’s tube which concerns me. It’s patchy in the left front corner as usual, but also patches on sponge rock and Tonga rock. The Fiji rock is free of it so far, but what this means is that the nuisance algae, temporarily surpressed by the cyano, has rebounded. The good news is that the red macroalgae there seems to be getting a foothold, but it’s making very slow growth.

Kyo is dividing his time between his algae nest on ledge rock and the cave under the ledge. He still sleeps up top, though, and is eating well. I’m not worried. At this time it seems more like a preference than a stress reaction.

The picoreef which is acting as a quarantine tank is an absolute mess. Over the weekend a dark grey film began to cover the substrate and barnacle shell. I fed the sun coral zooplex one night and skipped the next. Then I suctioned out as much of the film as I could — something that seemed to excite the substrate-dwelling snails. It was about a 1 qt water change. The sun corals haven’t been open — at least while I was still up — the past few days. Last night I smoked them with an excessive amount of microvert, then added a zooplex chaser. They didn’t seem to respond and I was tired so I turned on the little filter and went to bed. The tank looked smokey, so if they opened there would be plenty to eat.

This morning I suctioned the film on the substrate again, doing a 1 qt water change. By this afternoon the film is back. It reminds me of cyano, but is neither green nor red. It’s more of a charcoal gray. It could be bacterial without being cyano, I suppose.