Welp, it's been a while, so update time. KHD is (mostly) working. Not getting a IOND like I was originally planning considering how much of a pita the KHD has been. Maybe if it's consistent for a while longer I'll think about it again. Of course maybe someone will have a better solution by that point as well.
My Nero 5's almost ate another one of my fish. Ate my Long Spine urchin (Ripped his poor spines right off, even with a nem guard) and so they got yanked from the tank. That, plus the fact that one of my wrasses made it through the tiny freaking hole between the net top and the glass that I had for the Nero's cables just synched it for me. Picked up some MP10's. Found out that while I have enough room between the bottom of my stand and the wall to fit an MP10, I DON'T have enough room between the tank and the wall... cuz well, the wall isn't square. Mounting them both on one side didn't work because they don't have enough push to drive water all the way across the tank, so the 1/3rd if the tank near the problem wall was mostly a big dead spot. Even mounting them up near the top in sync they couldn't do it, too much disruption in their flow from the return. So they lasted a few days until I picked up an MP40. Now that, that works like a charm. One mounted on the side of my tank running at about 55% pushes water all the way across the tank so I have a nice variable current with the "Middle" and most of the top of my rock work seeing higher turbulent flow, the left side seeing moderate flow (from the return and the intake current to the MP40), and the right side seeing lower flow. I think it'll work out well. Anyone looking for any MP10's or Nero 5's? I'll probably throw them up on the market place a bit later after I finish cleaning the Nero's up a bit.
Also, coraline has started to go crazy, so YAY! and I finally moved my frags to the rockwork. I don't have many because I've just been super hesitant about buying more corals after basically losing just about everything twice. Right now it's Zoa's, a few mushrooms, some blasto's, some favia, an acan, a monti, and a lepto that I'm hoping recovers after being bulldozed and swept under some rocks before I found it again. I originally was just trying to use epoxy to hold them on the rock, but the next morning I had half of them missing after being knocked off by I'm guessing my snails. Now everything is attached with a glue/epoxy/glue sandwich so hopefully my snails won't knock it off again. And yes, before anyone freaks out, the Zoa's are on their own islands. I've read too many stories about zoa's and GSPs taking over rockwork. So they're on islands, with multiple frags depending on the size of the island. hopefully I'll have some neat zoa gardens when they grow out.
At this point I'm just sitting back and watching what the coral do. Hopefully I haven't screwed up my placement and nothing dies off on me. If all goes well, I'll probably buy some more corals in a month or three.
Other than that, I'm pondering some more fish. I lost my favorite wrasse to the jump that caused me to swap out the Nero's, so I'd love to get another Fairy or Flasher wrasse. And I've always wanted a Mandarin, so I've started pod stocking in preparation for that. Been thinking about converting one of my old 20g frag tanks to a Phyto/Pod cultivation system, but I'll have to do some more research there. We'll see. Wish me luck!
