Got my purple sump from
@Elite-Aquatics! Found another place that makes purple pvc that matches the purple on the sump, so I'm going to use that to install it when it comes in. Not really looking forward to having to redo all the plumbing and whatnot, but really looking forward to a much more functional sump.
Also got a new camera lens so here is a couple of shots. Next time I will turn off the pumps and not try to take pictures when the lights are turning off. Was just excited to try the lens out.
I did not do enough research on my Melanurus Wrasse. I saw lots of "reef safe" and bought him because I had a flatworm problem on my glass. Didn't seem to affect any corals, just made the glass ugly. He took care of that problem really quickly. Then he was a model citizen for a bit... a month or so. Then one day I see my skunk shrimp torn in two and the wrasse was very very fat. Then I realize I hadn't seen the larger one of my peppermint shrimp in a while and found it's body (well part of it's body) wedged in the cave it liked to live in. I saw my smaller peppermint shrimp the next day, then have never seen it again. Did some "who ate my shrimp" research and found my Melanurus to be the culprit. I thought reef safe included invertebrates but I was wrong. My Coral Banded Shrimp is still alive. Hopefully he's mean enough to survive because I really enjoy the diversity the shrimp added to the tank.
I did have a temporary cyano problem, which seemed to fix itself after a certain amount of time. Nothing I tried worked (lights, nutrient export, siphoning, scrubbing, more flow, more siphoning). I got sick and ignored the tank for about a week and noticed the problem started to fix itself and a couple days later was gone.
More recently a hair algae problem started, which might have actually been linked to the dead peppermint shrimp in the rocks since I have no idea how long it was in there. I don't have many algae eaters (only a few snails and hermits) in the tank so I bought a yellow tang. He was worthless for cleaning up algae. I would see him nip at the algae maybe once an hour or so. Just one little nip and would just end up tearing off a bunch that he didn't eat so it would float around the tank for a bit. :mad: It was then suggested I get a foxface. So I bought a One Spot Foxface and he is amazing. I saw him eat more while I was doing dishes then I had seen the tang eat the entire time I had him. And he is so tiny compared to the the tang. A bonus is that the tang seems to have caught on to what the foxface is doing and now eats WAY more algae. The tang actually follows the foxface around and copies where and how he's eating. Saw them both floating vertically eating off the rocks this morning.
It was just too much work for me with being a work from home mom with a 4 year old, 2 year old and two newborns. I didn't have time to properly care for the tank and wanted to see it go to a good home before everything started declining to the point of no return.
