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I was surprised this morning to find that the last large Aiptasia anemone in my 5.5g aquarium was gone. Apparently the two peppermint shrimps were really hungry last night. I'll have to monitor this tank, but it looks like they did the job I bought them for.

I went to TFP for the frag swap, which ran from 11-5, but I was only there from 10-2, including a half hour of shopping. I spent $20 on frags of a Kenya Tree Coral, toadstool, mushrooms, green hairy mushrooms, maybe something else. I hope it all pulls through, but it's hard to say. It is probably the coldest day of the year, and when I took this stuff out of my cooler, it felt kind of chilled, so I didn't waste much time acclimating things to my aquarium.

My friend converted his 180 gallon reef tank into a cichlid aquarium, and on September 1, 2009, he gave me so much of his live rock that I couldn't fit all of it into the 28 gallon tank I setup to receive it. He also gave me one Yellow Tang, one Purple Tang, a Tomato Clown, a Green Chromis, a Watchman Goby, five Pyjama Cardinals, and about six damselfish. Two of the damselfish were put in my other 28, with a pair of Blue Devils.

The next day, I ordered a large hang-on-tank refugium from… Continue

Figuratively speaking I was away, anyway. I just haven't been doing much with the aquarium, and it shows. I had a brown slime outbreak that turned into a black slime outbreak, and over the course of repeatedly cleaning my 28, two nights ago I discovered two starfish and a chiton. Today I did a big water change and put in about 4 lbs. of new live rock and replaced some aragonite sand. I am planning to buy an external refugium soon, after I get an internet order delivered.