DAY 25

This was how Sunny looked after a grueling feeding session by me right into the wee hours of the morning.

DAY 24

It was after many days of target feed that I managed to get Sunny to be more opened and receptive to the Mysis Shrimps I fed it. I wonder how long more would it take to get it to open up fully?

DAY 21

I discovered a stowaway on my tank when I saw a small clam-like creature crawling across the glass slowly. Well, I have no idea what it actually is.

Penny decided to come out of hiding and was busy sweeping it's fans in the water. Chris has also become more bold and started stealing food that I fed Sunny. It had been an arduous task feeding Sunny, sometimes for hours on end, when it didn't readily open up despite the presence of food.

DAY 18

I rearranged the display slightly and this is how it looks like currently. The sun coral definitely looked terrible.

I also dosed less than 1 ml of Reef Iodide in an attempt to get the Xenia to recover faster and promote the macroalgae growth.

DAY 15

Much has happened since day 15 but that would be in another post. I had a hard time feeding and coaxing the sun coral to eat. 

In fact, I have been so busy these couple of days that I have not fed it for a few days now. It is definitely looking worse today than on day 15. Where is the glimmer of hope?

DAY 13

Nothing much changed on most of day 13 except that I was freaked out again when the Turbo snails didn't move. Later on, 2 of them were actively scouting around the rocks, glass and sand for algae but 1 was immobile. If it is dead, I would have to quickly remove it before it polluted the water.

Luckily, this 1 here was happily coasting on the glass.

By the end of the day, I bought myself a small Clown Fish and a Sun Coral which I shall named Claudia and Sunny respectively. The Clown Fish has always besotted me and I don't think a marine setup is complete without this amazingly cartoonish yet attractive orange fish. The Sun Coral is orange too and I had a hard time coaxing it to feed on the Mysis Shrimps and freeze-dried Cyclop-eez. Hopefully I have better luck keeping it alive. I added a small filter at the same spot where I placed the wave maker to create some flow but the current seemed quite weak. This was also where I placed the Sun Coral.