Considering shutting down. Help pricing fish?

[HuduVudu]

this tank has been fighting me since day 1.

Generally it is the other way around. We want control of our tanks and that we don't get. It is a pretty big understanding to get this fundamentally.

It's what I get for going 100 percent dry...

This isn't why you struggled. It is from lack of understanding.

Knowledge in this hobby is everything. People don't want to believe that. Generally speaking that knowledge is hard fought and there is a lot of noise out there that people consider information. Learning to filter it out is hard.

Sad to see the tear down. Maybe if you decide in the future you want to try this again, consider the points that I have made.