Deep Reset, Reviving my 80 gallon lowboy.

Mr_Knightley · Jul 4, 2023

What a turnaround story! Nice to see you back at it LRT.

LRT · Jul 4, 2023

Mr_Knightley said:
What a turnaround story! Nice to see you back at it LRT.

Thank you @Mr_Knightley it is nice to be reefing again and does feel like I'm starting to get a handle on things

Much love sir

LRT · Jul 4, 2023

Happy 4th All I was bombing around fish room, cleaned the glass and was able to snag a few pix

Nate Chalk · Jul 4, 2023

LRT said:
Still have one of those yumas and I found that blue i was telling @Nate Chalk about

Hot

Mr_Knightley · Jul 4, 2023

LRT said:
Happy 4th All I was bombing around fish room, cleaned the glass and was able to snag a few pix

Magic carpet is still my favorite bounce, hands down no contest. I saw one in an ancient coral magazine and have been a fanboy ever since lol

LRT · Jul 4, 2023

Mr_Knightley said:
Magic carpet is still my favorite bounce, hands down no contest. I saw one in an ancient coral magazine and have been a fanboy ever since lol

Crazy. That would probably explain why she is one of my originals. Think I've had her for 4 years now and I got her as a frag. She's taken everything I can throw at her and still keeps going. Very picky about where I put her in the tank though. Once she settles she is happy knock on wood

Mr_Knightley · Jul 4, 2023

it's one of the oldest bounce morphs, besides Sunkist and OG of course. none of the new morphs have been anywhere close to the original batches in terms of color or vesicles!

LRT · Jul 4, 2023

Mr_Knightley said:
it's one of the oldest bounce morphs, besides Sunkist and OG of course. none of the new morphs have been anywhere close to the original batches in terms of color or vesicles!

She is beautiful that's for sure. Had some really nice pinks and oranges starting to come in on her before the crash. I'm hoping she gets that color back

What do you think about the old school kmaintl JB'S?

shadow_k · Jul 4, 2023

Oooo following this ! Welcome back! Shrooms are looking shroomie and torches looking torchy !

LRT · Jul 4, 2023

shadow_k said:
Oooo following this ! Welcome back! Shrooms are looking shroomie and torches looking torchy !

Thank you sir. We are starting to get back there slowly but surely

shadow_k · Jul 4, 2023

LRT said:
Thank you sir. We are starting to get back there slowly but surely

Absolutely ! All tanks go through hard times lol mine especially following @brandon429 rip clean my tank never crashed again lol

LRT · Jul 5, 2023

A few pix from this morning

Magic carpet was posing lol She's a beast. Easily 6.5"-7" fully open those are 5" tiles for refference.
S9 takes better pix in regular mode no fancy stuff.

Mr_Knightley · Jul 5, 2023

LRT said:
She is beautiful that's for sure. Had some really nice pinks and oranges starting to come in on her before the crash. I'm hoping she gets that color back
What do you think about the old school kmaintl JB'S?

Not sure what those are.. Jawbreakers?
If so, I've never been a huge fan. I like texture over color usually.

LRT · Jul 6, 2023

Mr_Knightley said:
Not sure what those are.. Jawbreakers?
If so, I've never been a huge fan. I like texture over color usually.

Yessir Old School Jawbreakers that I think you would dig

The bright gold ones in the bowl in the back.

F i s h y · Jul 6, 2023

LRT said:
Yessir Old School Jawbreakers that I think you would dig The bright gold ones in the bowl in the back.

i licked them all...

LRT · Jul 6, 2023

Took some pix with 15k and 20k with glare lens on

Mr_Knightley · Jul 6, 2023

LRT said:
Yessir Old School Jawbreakers that I think you would dig The bright gold ones in the bowl in the back.

Got to admit, the yellow is really striking. I'm just not a fan of that rough, mustard stained carpet texture

LRT · Jul 6, 2023

Mr_Knightley said:
Got to admit, the yellow is really striking. I'm just not a fan of that rough, mustard stained carpet texture

Totally different glow and texture on the old school JB'S. Starting to get a nice red tinge. Very nice contrast and they are bright

Probably the brightest coral in my tank atm I'll try and get better pix.

LRT · Jul 6, 2023

Quick update on some stats and cool things.
I started dosing cal again. Things seemed to come to a stalemate for a minute.
Now I'm starting to get a very small but uniform blip in usage across the big 3. I'm hoping things continue to trend this way.

Let's talk about rip clean for a sec.
I'm a true believer there's no better way to cure a rock than to take total control and remove what you don't want, to make sure what you do want is growing on it.
I'm starting to get gulf hitchiker corals popping up on the rock I scrubbed. These rocks have never touched eachother and have been in my system for 4 years.
I'm also seeing amphipods as well as some really cool fan worms popping up in the sump. I lost almost all my inverts. Lost entire colonies of clams on rocks it was a total mess. It would be awesome to see some baby clams come back to life on it.