Ok, time for an update, it has been a few weeks.
I have finally removed the container from my system and let my baby Onyx's roam free within the tank.
My main reason for doing this is because I believe the container was leaching phosphors into the tank since right after the cyano algea started going haywire.
So now with the container removed and I have reduced my lighting to 6hrs a day right now with water changes it has started to disipate.
I have to get new chemi-pure this week and I am going to buy seperate activated carbon to help out as well, I am at my 6 month mark for them.
So here are some pictures.
Duncans
Frogspawn in actinic
The MontiCap has healed fully now. You can see the green flourescents in the actinic shot.
Digis are doing nicely. The purple tipped is really purple now and the orange polyp has green and blue skin, and not brown underneath.
These zoas are super troopers and have overgrown a couple places where aiptasia had taken root.
Red Mushie under actinic
My regrowing acropora. You can finally see the green colour coming through. Any idea of the name?
Suncorals and Dendros
Finally Pics of my baby clowns. Some are blurry some similar, but they show them free in the tank now and I think they may finally be developing colour.
I have been very lucky that neither of my 2 larger clowns, Big Momma and Jigsaw, have been overly aggressive towards the babies. I think that is mainly due to the fact I kept them in the container within the same tank so they could see each other.
They all keep to opposite corners of the tank from each other. Big Momma and Jigsaw have paired up together. They make their hourly rounds and check in with the babies making sure they submit to them, but there has been no fin nipping or other unneccesary roughness.
On another note, my blue damsel doesn't seem to give a crap about the babies being lose in the tank. He doesn't bother them what so ever, even when he is among them trying to score some food.
Runt
Runt and Omen
Omen: It is not a very clear picture, but I used it to show that I think this is the darkening of the skin just before the black coloration starts coming in. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Omen, Jigsaw and Runt: Jigsaw doing his hourly duty and checking up on the babies.
