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Good News / Bad News

So which do you want first? :(

Okay, let's start with the bad... My Lemon Meringue Wrasse that is about 1.5 years old is probably dying, as it was uncharacteristically lying on the substrate all day long, only breathing. It normally swims in my entire tank, but today something happened. I don't really have any clues, but after testing the water and finding everything was pretty close to normal, my guess is that it jumped and hit something in the canopy very hard, leading to its death. After observing it all day, I put it in a breeders box in the tank so it will be left alone all night, in case it rebounds, but I fear the worst. Lemon Meringue Wrasse in trouble.

Two colonies of zoanthids are succumbing to some type of problem, where individual polyps look like a turnicate was applied near the 'neck' area, and a jelly seems to form on the tip. This only seems to happen with large-polyped species. Here are two images. Half the polyps are damaged and a single polyp dies.

The good news...

While changing a little water in the 29g today, to lower the salinity from 1.028 to 1.026, I noticed that the SCWD closed loop system was displaying the alternating current nicely, so I shot a 49 second video - 4.2 meg download. (If clicking on this link doesn't work, try Save As and run it from your own computer.

The new Anthias I got a few days ago was out several times, but when I approached the tank it ducked for cover. I was able to observe it feeding today which is a great sign. These two images were taken from across the room with the zoom, so they aren't very focused, but you can see why I wanted one so much. Pic 1 and Pic 2.

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