What keeps you going?

[KSReefing]

I know we all have the moments where we want to give up and sell everything off. I had recently gotten to that point and decided to keep pushing on. I'm curious what all do you guys do/try to help you rejuvenate your reef game. Buying new equipment? New fish? New Coral?

I've got a 60 gallon cube with a pair of lightning maroon clowns
Flame angel
And a melanarus wrasse.

Fish are doing awesome. Fed Mysis and LRS Reef Frenzy daily.

Corals slowly started to deteriorate. Zoas were closing and some are shrinking in size. Acans have slowly died off.

Tested my water. Calcium was at 290. Alk has been steady at 10 DKH. Everything else looked good.

Guessing that this is my problem with the Calcium so I have ordered more CA and ALK from BRS to help fix that problem.

No algae problem at all with my tank. Just no coraline growth at all. Tanks been up for 9 months so I always found that weird. Calcium dropped probably over a couple of recent weeks.

Hoping to get this all turned back around over some time but curious what you guys do when you're feeling like you could sell it all.

 

[Reefer Deez]

I too have ended up in the same position you have been in. Where something goes wrong and you feel that it's all your fault and you must have done something wrong. I am recently battling with my torch corals and frogspawn suddenly receding and dying slowly I have lost some pretty expensive Coral. But it doesn't seem to matter whether it's expensive or cheap it hurts the same when they die. I found myself and less hours searching on the internet looking for the answer as to what I am doing wrong all my parameters were good ALK was at 9.8 calcium steady at 4:20 nitrates 3 phosphates 0.08 magnesium a little high at 1,400 nitrate 0 ammonia 0 and salinity 1.026 and I felt just like you and wanting to give up. But when my wife suggested we get fish and we decided to go with a reef tank I vowed to give her the best looking reef tank that I could and I have never been wanting to give up on anything in my life so I'm not going to start now. I look at it as a challenge I look at it as a learning experience and that's what helps me keep going. Not to mention being a part of this awesome community that I learn from every single day and I might actually get the chance to help somebody with the knowledge that I have learned over my successes and my fails. If I can prevent someone from doing the same thing I did or making the same mistake I did then I feel it made up for the loss or the mistake I made because I learned from it. So in a nutshell that's what keeps me going I wish you the best of luck I hope it is just a calcium issue and once you balance that out I hope your tank flourishes and grows beyond your greatest belief or your highest expectations.