Allons-y!!

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal · Sep 7, 2023

Miami Reef said:
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.

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal · Sep 7, 2023

(fyi, the tap dancing you hear in the background is my dog, lol)

Miami Reef · Sep 7, 2023

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal · Sep 7, 2023

Miami Reef said:
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.

Miami Reef · Sep 7, 2023

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal · Sep 7, 2023

Miami Reef said:
Is the front glass covered in algae? Lol

No, I do still use my scraper

fishguy242 · Sep 7, 2023

Glad to see you back...

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal · Sep 7, 2023

fishguy242 said:
Glad to see you back...

You too!!

CasperOe · Sep 22, 2023

Just came across this, it's a lovely build you have going on here! Crazy about that centrepiece BTA you have up there in the middle!

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal · Sep 22, 2023

CasperOe said:
Just came across this, it's a lovely build you have going on here! Crazy about that centrepiece BTA you have up there in the middle!

Thank you!

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal · Oct 28, 2023

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.

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.

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.

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

Miami Reef · Oct 28, 2023

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal · Oct 28, 2023

Oh, and here's the new scape.

Miami Reef · Oct 28, 2023

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal · Oct 28, 2023

Miami Reef said:
Wow! I didn’t realize how big this tank was. Is it 7’-8’?

5 foot

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal · Oct 28, 2023

@Mhamilton0911, did you just discover this thread? Lol!

TangerineSpeedo · Oct 28, 2023

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.

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal · Oct 28, 2023

TangerineSpeedo said:
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.