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An interesting thing happend in my Nanocube.
It's good and bad at once. When I made the surface skimmer modification, it raised the water level a bit. Doing so redirected the water current a bit. Now I have this forceful "downdraft" in the front right corner. My substrate is very fine, but the downdraft isn't engough to kick up a real dust cloud. What is happening is that it's just enough to kick up a little sand. Over the course of a week, a depression maybe 1" deep and 5" across has formed in the corner, from the sand slowly swirling out.
It's been this way for seven days.
Observations:
• blastomussa wellsii died ...
this happened very fast, so fast that I didn't even notice it was ailing until it was too late. i think the particles that settled on its polyps, even though they weren't that many, may have irritated it. i think it died in like 8 -12 hours when i was gone all day)
• huge, huge, huge copepod and amphipod population explosion. they probably represent the most biomass in my tank, LOL!
• very small red flatworm outbreak
• green star polyp looks like it's been taking super crack monkey steroids (doing really well)
• mushrooms, xenia, polyps and leather toadstool also on steroids
• water tested 1/2 way through this week of sandbed disturbance: no change in usual ammo or nit's ... (it's been 4 days since i tested though and i wanted to try again tonight or tomorrow)
• small bits of sand are on, but not really "coating" the LR. the copepods seem to love this.
• caulerpa growing even more than normal, and is heavily coated in the tiny red flatworms.
I was wondering about leaving the tank this way permanently, and having it be a shroom/softie tank (basically is already but I have two LPS and one tiny SPS ... every week or so I can just push the sand back into the little divot.
Comments, suggestions ... flames?
-meh
It's good and bad at once. When I made the surface skimmer modification, it raised the water level a bit. Doing so redirected the water current a bit. Now I have this forceful "downdraft" in the front right corner. My substrate is very fine, but the downdraft isn't engough to kick up a real dust cloud. What is happening is that it's just enough to kick up a little sand. Over the course of a week, a depression maybe 1" deep and 5" across has formed in the corner, from the sand slowly swirling out.
It's been this way for seven days.
Observations:
• blastomussa wellsii died ...
this happened very fast, so fast that I didn't even notice it was ailing until it was too late. i think the particles that settled on its polyps, even though they weren't that many, may have irritated it. i think it died in like 8 -12 hours when i was gone all day)• huge, huge, huge copepod and amphipod population explosion. they probably represent the most biomass in my tank, LOL!
• very small red flatworm outbreak
• green star polyp looks like it's been taking super crack monkey steroids (doing really well)
• mushrooms, xenia, polyps and leather toadstool also on steroids
• water tested 1/2 way through this week of sandbed disturbance: no change in usual ammo or nit's ... (it's been 4 days since i tested though and i wanted to try again tonight or tomorrow)
• small bits of sand are on, but not really "coating" the LR. the copepods seem to love this.
• caulerpa growing even more than normal, and is heavily coated in the tiny red flatworms.
I was wondering about leaving the tank this way permanently, and having it be a shroom/softie tank (basically is already but I have two LPS and one tiny SPS ... every week or so I can just push the sand back into the little divot.
Comments, suggestions ... flames?
-meh
