*Yawn*
Got a early-morning wake-up call from yx. She gave me a fright yesterday, went to pick her up after she's done at the hairdresser's, and I seriously thought the wrong person came up the car. What a difference a fringe can do to a person!! Rebond + Fringe = Scary. Oh no, better not let her read this, she's already quite upset that everyone (my parents & sisters) is shocked rather than "wow!". Just need to get used to it.

OH! Got my fluidised reactor up and running!!! Put in 250ml of iron oxide chips, and now the things are rolling and floating in the reactor. Wanted to use the tee-off from my return pump but I realised the piping was too small, so in a sudden (rare) brainwave, I hooked it up to the return line from the chiller. Surprisingly it worked! Crossing fingers - hope that there won't be too high a pressure inside the chiller. Don't want a visit from Murphy so soon in my holidays.

Got really upset last night about the tank actually. I think I'm going to throw away/find another way to keep those colt-eating nudibranchs. True, I ration their food, a 3-cm long piece of coral every other day, but SOMEHOW, the colt always melts and pollutes the tank. It's cloudy again, and I dare not measure the nitrate levels. I'm guessing it's so high the test kit can't even pick it up. And loth to do a water change last night.

Ill luck with corals from the genus Euphillia. My newly-acquired hammer and frogspawn corals are AGAIN undergoing rapid tissue necrosis (RTN), or maybe it's brown jelly disease. I'm no coral doctor, so whenever it happens I tend to lose most of the coral. Worried ... Shall watch its progress. I think it's the poor water quality from the melting colt that's doing it.

But then again ... I think not. It's just poor luck with them. Cos I have even more sensitive invertebrates in the tank, and they would get affected first for sure. Echinoderms, for one. The starfish would have flipped first.

DW called me up last night to say that the Fiji xenia frags are ready! Will have to forgo dinner with yx's family and her soon-to-be sister-in-law to collect the frags, since DW's in NS and he'll only be around tonight I think. I'm hoping that artificially-propagated corals will have better luck in my tank. For Xenia, it's usually a hit-or-miss. They either become a fiery nuisance in tank ("The same thing we do every night - take over the tank!!"), or they just disappear in a twinkling. Melt off ...

Yesterday morning when I woke up, I found the new Acanthastrea rotundaflora extending its feeder tendacles - good sign!! Going to reset the timer to increase the photoperiod of the tank - also so that I can view the tank in the day.