Sorry for not updating as often as I'd like to - things are going a little crazy right now, with scary school hours, homework (yes, you've read it right. HOMEWORK) and loads of major organising to do with all the freshmen coming in this year. I'm half-glad my 2nd term in the club's almost over, going to hand over any day now. Last step in the plan - chum up with the new intermediates class members so that my 2 poor chairpeople-to-be won't be left high and dry with no capable people to help run the club. Lessons on Tues, practice on Thurs - how good can life get? Ah, and for today ... someone's coming back. A slice of life taken away from me for half a year, and back again. What impact this will have on me, I have no idea. Perhaps I needn't think so much about it after all. "Whatever will be, will be."

Right, back on track. Woke up this morn and saw some crazy polyp extension coming from the 2 Acanthastrea and the bubble coral, those feeder tentacles are amazing. Now, if only those tentacles would appear in the day ... might have to fix up a red light so I can view them without disturbing the feeding phase.

Scared to do anything else about the tank for now, I'm pretty sure calcium is sky-high, together with carbonate. Any wrong move and the ionic balance will go right out of whack again. Just leaving it be, until I can do a major water change this weekend to rectify the problem.

Grade caulerpa went sexual on Sunday and released spores - and caulerpin. Tank went fuzzy white again, I tweaked the skimmer to produce wet skimmate and dumped in my spare bag of activated carbon, reserved for such an occassion. The other algae are not affected, fortunately. Honestly I can't keep doing this. The reason why it went sexual was due to a weird shift in photoperiod - I actually forgot to switch the refugium lights off one night. Time to install yet another timer, but my current plug strip has run out of space. Thinking of buying this lovely 7-outlet extension plug, but it'll set me back by $45. Hmmm. For peace of mind? Tempting.

Oh, and I think a product review of DT's frozen oyster eggs is in order. Been using this for 2 weeks now, and honestly, it might have been a waste of money. No obvious feeding response was elicited, as far as my naked eye could see. But again ... those eggs are 10 microns in size, so I wouldn't know if anything's eating them. A good surrogate measure, I suppose, would be to observe the growth rate of my non-photosynthetic gorgonians. Assuming, of course, that they actually eat that stuff. I know all my gorgs eat cyclop-eeze, I actually see the tentacles catching that stuff and can usually see the ingested cyclops through the tissue too. Really thinking of getting myself yet another clam, but those things literally suck up calcium from the water.

No more new livestock purchases for the next few weeks, I foresee - not unless something irresistable comes my way.