A Month of Mishaps
Several unfortunate events took place this month. Here's a run down.
1. Bye-bye Achilles
At the beginning of the month, my achillies tang suddenly came down with a severe bacteria infection. It died after two days.
The running of zeo system precludes the use of UV and Ozone, that is one down side I have to keep in mind. This is an important consideration for me to stay away from some fishes as long as I'm using zeolite based filtration.
Also, for a system which is very bacteria driven, I think its also potentially conducive for pathogenic bacteria to replicate rapidly. Therefore I will steer towards a lower fish load to give me larger margin.
2. Unchin and Clam
One of my urchin fell on a squamosa clam, and got stuck in the inhalent siphon. It's a case of mutually assured destruction. Very unfortunate.
3. Compressor and Jinx
I was sharing with a reefer that compressors are very reliable. The same night, the compressor leaked. When I realised my birdnest corals are uncharacteristically bare, my aquarium temperature is at 30.5 degrees.
What a case of global warming in my own living room. Fortunately, iwarna was able to help install a new compressor the next day. My Acropolis endured with majority of it's inhabitants alive.
The color of the coral is washed out somewhat. But if they survive, it is just a matter of time before the color comes back.
The surge of temperature also wrecked havoc on my microbe population. There is probably some die-off, as well as some rebalancing of dominant bacteria colonies. It will be a while before the system stablizes again.
Nightfall on Acropolis, here is to a less eventful May.