Something fishy…

By now you're clearly onto my often horrible subjects. Par for the course – it's about the saltwater tank. New stuff today, from updates to equipment and critters.

Protein skimmer came today, I've got that assembled and I'm surprised and disappointed by the many reviews I've read online where they complained of poor instructions. It was remarkably simple to install and start up. Those people who complained, whomever they are, suck. It's an Octopus BH 100 hang on the tank protein skimmer – so far it's got my thumbs up!

At the fish store I had no idea what they might have in. I got lucky, they had a nice looking frogspawn (one of the things I was hoping to pick up), and a toadstool leather. Only other coral I was really hoping for was a Kenya Tree coral, which they had, but I didn't feel comfortable dropping that much cash. I also picked up five Narissa snails for shaking up the sand in my tank.

But wait, it gets better! Nearing the end of my coral shopping experience this guy comes up and asks me if I've got a reef tank. Then he gave me a couple of frags his buddy had given him. Acropora coral frag (difficult coral, but I've got it ideally located under my new lights and I have a water pump blowing a strong current straight over it. He also gave me some kind of a disc or shelf coral. He said I should glue it to he side of a rock and it'll grow there or if I find a place that's stable it will attach on its own overtime. I found a great place and we'll see what happens. I forget the name, but who am I to turn down some free coral frags?

Protein skimmer is still blowing extra bubbles into the water but that will resolve in time. Already the micro bubbles are reducing significantly in size and severity. In fact I need to go adjust my collection cup now that I'm looking at it.