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We enjoyed a FREE BBQ lunch, (much appreciated) and browsed the vendors. While I was inside purchasing a nitrite test kit, my wife found a red mushroom coral frag at the coralmaster.com display which, after indicating was her "favorite", they gave her for FREE! Well of course that obligated me to make a purchase LOL, so I went with a a 4 head Duncan's coral frag. The guys there were very nice and entertained us for quite a while discussing our new setup. I'll admit now that the coral purchase was a bit undisciplined. I wasn't sure if my display was fully cycled, and I had been dosing some ammonia to get it going.
At this point we had to rush out to the airport, but the 14:00 draw came up just then and we won $100 certificate for the fragcave.com! Very nice. I'm not sure what I am going to do with this yet.
When we got home I used the test kit and observed ~3 ppm nitrite in the display. I floated the corals in a 5 gallon bucket of heated salt water (in the garage), that was intended for a quarantine tank water change then proceeded with a ~50% water change of the display. The next day I tested the water and with my excellent color vision could not detect any nitrite.
Unfortunately in the meantime, our new corals suffered a temperature event. I may have inadvertently kicked the extension cord or something because when I went to check, the heater was off and the temperature was down to 68 f. I acclimated the corals to the new tank the best I could. The Duncan's had a poop and now they seem happier living in their new home.
Since then, we have added two scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp. I was a bit nervous about these guys because I had read reports of them being difficult to acclimate and dying. I am happy to report they are alive and well, living in the cave network on the left side of the display. They come swimming out quickly when fish food is introduced.
The NEPTUNE APEX is on the way!
All for now.
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