The Tank is Nearly Back to Normal!!!

Good news!!!! The clownfish have readjusted to their original tank and are happy being there again. In addition to the clownfish, there are also nine snails: 3 Margarita Snails, 3 Netrite Snails, and 3 Mexican Turbo Snails. These snails are doing a great job maintaining the algae growth in the tank, yet we would like to add a sea hare to the tank, which would aid these snails in algae maintenance. We also had a representative from Fish Gallery, an amazing fish supply store, come in to identify the algae that is still growing in our tank. However, the man who came in said that he had never seen the type of algae we have growing in our tank. It is a dark brown, slimy, hairy algae that could possibly be a new species. When testing the chemical balances of the museum's clownfish tank, I found that the calcium levels were extremely slow, about 260 ppm versus the 400 ppm that they should be. I concluded that this must be caused by one of two things: the snails pulling more calcium than we expected out of their water to build their shells or a faulty test kit. I should be able to determine if it was caused by a faulty test kit sometime next week because we ordered another kit to compare the results. If it is not a faulty test kit, I will assume that the snails are pulling more calcium out of the water than we expected, but I will have to do more experiments to determine if this theory is correct. However in the mean time, we will continue to add calcium supplements to the tank to "normalize" the levels of calcium in the tank.