so, it's been about a year or so since i've updated this.
2020 was a rough year, and even though i spent most of it locked up at home, i neglected my tank. various reasons and excuses for this... but not going to bore you with that.
long story short... right now i have three fish alive, most zoas are still alive, but not doing well. some of then open up about 50% others stay closed, and have reduced in size.
GSP frag has grown slowly over time, but never really looked great. it still has little polyp extension.
pipe organ frag still has a few polyps alive, and holding on.
all other corals are dead.
all snails died.
all hermits died
neon gobie and firefish died. they were doing good, not sure if it was natural causes, oldage... never really saw them suffer.
over the course of a year, i had outbreaks of dinos and cyano.
i treated with dino-x, vibrant, and chemi clean. no, not all at once, but over a few months.
the tank looked REALLY ugly for a long time, but it's finally bouncing back, the water looks clear, not too much unwanted growth anymore, but not yet perfect.
sent in a triton test last week, and results came back with most things in the normal ranges.
the only things that stood out were: tin, zinc, cobalt and iron.
even though these levels still seem on the lower end, i'm not sure these are cause for "immeditate" action.
the only things that i have dosed into the tank were: TM all for reef, and brightwell amino acids every once in a while.
feed the fish small amounts of new life spectrum optimum flakes.
so what's the plan?
blow off the rocks more often, and let the filter socks clean up the water.
run some polyfilter to polish the water regularly.
i may run something like cuprisorb or metasorb to see if it removes some unwanted metals.
keep an eye on the corals, while trying to not overreact, and try to fix everything at once.
the tank this morning, the lights just started to ramp up, it's still pretty dim.
J.
