@Victoria M @Dubs83
Hey guys, I’m here.
Man, what a rough couple weeks. Flu season hit us with a vengeance! In the past few weeks, we’ve all been hit with various ailments, and yesterday was the first full non-illness day in close to a month.
So, Katie and her mom went to a concert and of course, Katie brought home flu. Hit her hard, to the point I had to take her to urgent care for an IV drip and we all got tamiflu. However, too late- I came down a couple days later, then C (3 yo) came down with it, but she also had a raspy cough. Turns out she had flu, Strep throat AND a foreign body in her ear, which turned out to be a big cupcake sprinkle. That kid is too stoic for her own good. T (1yo) got rsv, and is teething at the same time, so night have been rough. I had a good day, then picked up the strep throat from C, and when I went into the clinic for a test for antibiotics, a second flu test came back positive. Type B. So I’ve had fluA,strep throat and fluB in the last 3 weeks. Still popping antibiotics for the strep.
All of this over thanksgiving, which is starting to turn into a cluster due to a MIL who hates to cook yet insists we go to theirs for TG and she cooks. They have a 4 burner and a single oven and she invites like 15 people.
Tank stuff.
I managed to throw some chemiclean in there on Tuesday, for the cyano.
I did a big scrub, siphon and clean yesterday- 70gallons of crud siphoned out of the DT, plus another 30 changes in the sump.
Turf algae: 90% gone. Some holdouts but they are small clusters.
Cyano: 80% gone, but residual is sloughing off and deep red color. On its way out.
Chrysophytea: 98% gone.
Tank hasn’t looked this good in months.
While the pumps where off, I pulled the return manifold and consigned it to the fail box, so know I have a straight shot up to the tank. Return just for return brah. Reduced flow on the pump from 78% to 63% and the BA is running silent straight away
Ordered some vibrant and plan to do a 10 week course of that to further polish the tank.
Also ordered some arc coralline in a bottle, and some sand and 20lbs rock for my macro fuge
I may have a small Dino bloom need to confirm.
RIP dispar anthia during thanksgiving. I had planned to come back down on Friday (4 hour round trip) in order to feed some frozen and do a check, but I got guilt tripped by MIL for abandoning family for a day at thanksgiving, so I didn’t come back . I should have stuck to my plan
Midas blenny is still in QT. Purely because I didn’t get to salinity ramp tje water up to 1.026 due to illness. I’m now topping that tank off with 1.050 water and have a little fan going to increased evap. Hopefully the tank will be up to 1.026 from 1.022 by middle of next week so I can move her up.
I pick up a gorgeous tube anemone next Thursday, and next Monday I’m getting some black mollies to acclimate and use as QT canaries. Once acclimated, I’m goon to repeat my attempt at the flasher wrasses, this time putting them straight in to the observation tank with the Mollies after a h2o2 dip.
So much going on, so much to do. Will update a little more later.
Oh- decided against a sailfin due to how large they get, but I’m 90% sold on the idea of a flame fin tomini tang. May pick him up next week also.
Hope y’all are good!
That is different 
