HHH's 100 Gallon Mixed Reef

I pulled into my driveway last night and saw my wife had pulled up a chair to the tank and had my son in her lap and they were actually engaged without me there!

Gave me the feels :)
Nothing beats that.
 
Have been adding rocks here and there and today I traded out a paly covered rock for a blank slate. Some things are looking really good, some things are slowly recovering. My main focus is stability and watching the harlequins eat back my asterina population.
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Does the tank seem to have stabilized and is recovering?
Yeah I think so but I’m not sure if I am out of the woods completely because I am stripping phosphate out which can be a bit hairy. I’m trying to slowly get down to nsw parameters and then maintain it there. Done with the super high nutrients.
 
I don’t exactly know for sure why my tank took a dive so I wanted to try and keep everything within the “norm” going forward just to try and eliminate variables for future events.

Tbh I really look at your corals for something to aspire to but I can’t exactly copy your system. My p04 and nitrates were .86 and 50. I want to stay around .1 and 10 and see how it goes.
 
I don’t exactly know for sure why my tank took a dive so I wanted to try and keep everything within the “norm” going forward just to try and eliminate variables for future events.

Tbh I really look at your corals for something to aspire to but I can’t exactly copy your system. My p04 and nitrates were .86 and 50. I want to stay around .1 and 10 and see how it goes.
Was it that high when you were having success or did it spike up there?
 
Was it that high when you were having success or did it spike up there?
I believe it climbed too high. I didn’t test for a while and during that period I was trying to get a Copperband to eat regularly and overfed a bit. But it could be totally unrelated to the issues I had? Who really knows. 2 icp in a row said low iodine so maybe it was that or maybe it was fallout from switching to 2 part from kalk a couple months ago. My tank is just an experiment with crossed fingers lol.
 
Every time I want to unload some, you have just posted on panhandle lol. I have been tossing them in my sump. They are pretty but they are terrorists.
HAHAHA! I have like 60 of those terrorists in my tank! I've gone to trying to poison them the calcium hydroxide paste, but that only knocks them down for a bit...when they get back up, there are four instead of one! :)
 
HAHAHA! I have like 60 of those terrorists in my tank! I've gone to trying to poison them the calcium hydroxide paste, but that only knocks them down for a bit...when they get back up, there are four instead of one! :)
The worst part is they release and float and get caught in acro colonies where they expand and nuke.
 
BTW, I didn't see any green birdsnsest in your tank. I've got some terrific frags, if you want one. I could also frag you a piece of BoP birdsnest or this other purple, branching coral that I have if you're interested.
 

IF YOU HAD TO TAKE A REEFING EXAM, WOULD YOU PASS?

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