Brain Coral

After the re-scaping, Ben decided he needed to add another coral to the tank since the layout changed and there were some "open" spots without coral. I had been reading some forums and had decided that I wanted to switch out our actinic lights for a 50/50 power compact bulb to include more 10,000K lights which were of more use to the corals. We also had been fighting red slime algae, so I thought we should try to add some macroalgae to the tank in an attempt to out compete the red slime for nutrients. Seemed to me that we NEEDED to go to the fishstore!

We got to River City and quickly found the 50/50 PC bulb that I needed for the tank. They recommended using some chaeto for macroalgae if I was going to add it to the main tank. Ben found a nice open faced brain that he liked for his coral. We were all set to head home.

Upon arriving home, we discover our new Peppermint shrimp was dead! Maybe the re-aquascaping was too much for him. We are sure having bad luck with peppermint shrimp.