{"id":2497,"date":"2011-01-12T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T20:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2011-01-12T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T20:02:39","slug":"getting-the-tank-back-into-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/getting-the-tank-back-into-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the tank back into shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had let the marine tank kind of get along in the keeping of the monster hammer coral&#8230;euphyllias like it, and they had taken over.<br \/>\nSo we fragged the monster (Jane has pix) and rearranged the tank.<br \/>\nTo our great disgust, Jane&#8217;s brilliant arrangement has a flaw: the keystone for the archwork has caulerpa (a noxious weed: see: the Killer Algae documentary on its invasion of the Med) and aiptasia (rock anemone, a pest species that has no helpful uses nor great beauty.) We got the cursed rabbitfish originally to deal with the stuff, and it&#8217;s failed. I&#8217;m now taking other means: a sea hare (a brown variety of shell-less snail) is alleged to eat the stuff, and a gfo reactor (granulated ferrous oxide) will deprive it of phosphate. We&#8217;ll see. Very little else will eat it. Peppermint shrimp will at least harass the aiptasia and eat its young. But quel pain!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile we&#8217;ve acquired some little striped highfin gobies and a royal gramma. If you&#8217;re curious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveaquaria.com\/product\/prod_display.cfm?c=15+21+53&#038;pcatid=53 \">&#8230;you can wander the F&#038;S site. <\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;re going to have a battle on our hands with that weed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had let the marine tank kind of get along in the keeping of the monster hammer coral&#8230;euphyllias like it, and they had taken over. So we fragged the monster (Jane has pix) and rearranged the tank. To our great disgust, Jane&#8217;s brilliant arrangement has a flaw: the keystone for the archwork has caulerpa (a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}