Allons-y!!

I got a video uploaded to YouTube of her stars so you guys can see it!

There is a video of the original spawning in the thread I posted... that was in December I believe.
 
What’s your favorite fish in your tank currently?
Well, despite neglecting the tank quite a bit recently, all of them are alive, so they're all my favorites!

They all have different personalities, I don't know if I have a favorite.
 
Ok, I'm going to try to start updating this more often. Acquired some new corals, rearranged the scape, and had some setbacks...

Mount cyphastrea is no more :(. Not sure what caused it but it RTN'ed a few months ago. I do have a small frag that I've glued to my overflow box... Hopefully it will survive. This is during the decline.

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My blennies covered the plate with sand - repeatedly - and it looks awful. I know these corals can come back or make babies so I'm trying to keep the algae off in hopes it recovers; not very optimistic though. Still puffs up at night.

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The larger red chalice that I fragged this summer is also looking a little rough. It's the type with a thin skeleton and it's easy to damage it when handling. I had to move it a few times and then one of my BTAs decided to attach itself to the back of the chalice, and removing that caused more damage. It's getting better though.

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New corals are more duncans (2 colonies), a couple hammers, and more frog/octospawn. I also got a scoly, fox coral, and a brain.

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I counted up the corals I lost in the last couple years since starting up my tropicals tanks. 0 softies, 0 Lps, 4 Sps out of 35. Not to say a few of my Sps are in recovery mode and a good percentage of my SPS are easy to medium on the difficulty level. But sometimes it is amazing to me how resilient they are. I have lost some behind rock work, only to have my urchin pull it out weeks later pretty much white. Or how for one reason or another I have paled them out (loss of nutrient’s) But all have come back. The ones I have lost are new frags that didn’t adjust well to my tanks for whatever reason.
I guess what I am saying is sometimes when you think you have lost one, life happens, given the proper nutrition, flow and light.
 
I counted up the corals I lost in the last couple years since starting up my tropicals tanks. 0 softies, 0 Lps, 4 Sps out of 35. Not to say a few of my Sps are in recovery mode and a good percentage of my SPS are easy to medium on the difficulty level. But sometimes it is amazing to me how resilient they are. I have lost some behind rock work, only to have my urchin pull it out weeks later pretty much white. Or how for one reason or another I have paled them out (loss of nutrient’s) But all have come back. The ones I have lost are new frags that didn’t adjust well to my tanks for whatever reason.
I guess what I am saying is sometimes when you think you have lost one, life happens, given the proper nutrition, flow and light.
Yes, I'm hoping everything recovers. I had a period of pretty bad depression over the last few months and neglected the tank besides feeding the fish and filling the ATO reservoir (and scraping the glass). I do suspect the cyphastrea loss was due to the liquid alk supplement I was using earlier this summer - the first evidence of major tissue loss was the day after I had dosed (just trying to raise alk .5- 1 dKh, nothing outrageous), and the rest of it died after another dose of the same product. Might totally be a coincidence as nothing else was affected.
 
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