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I have had this Tubinaria from a tiny frag and it still one of my favorites 

We got new floors and I lost almost all of my acros when an anemone died in the tub, seems like once a year something goes wrong and I have to start over.

Just replaced my Reefbreeder photon’s after 6 years with the Photon V2+. One side was flickering to a lower power so I had to make the switch. I am hopeful that my SPS will start coloring up with this new light. I also broke down my bio-reactor and cleaned all the parts, so should should see a little lower nutrients. On a side note how long does it take for the base of SPS colonies to regain color? 

I haven’t updated my tank status in while but I think I have it going in the right direction again 

If patience is a virtue, you must be a very virtuous person. I am really interested to see how this build comes along with all of the planning you have done, it should be incredible.

Raceing Stripes makes an appearance

Started using Rea Sea Pro Coral Colors and I may be imaging it but I think I starting to see some new color

Sorry about the wrasse I lost all three of mine last time I went out of town. I can bring a trap to Just Reef Sat if you still need one.

Rainbow Hammer

One of my favorites

Porcelain crab

Finally some growth

Nice! Tank looks great. Is that a red dragon or a Mr. Pacman acro?

No problems with Hammers and Frogspawns, but my Rainbow hammer attacked a Favia and Chalice. My hammers sting Duncan's and my Torches have killed a branching Hammer.

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If it was zinc a poly-filter may remove it.

My actual leopard wrasses

Thanks Just Reef, someone ordered this beauty but I talked Aaron into selling it to me. Eats like there is no tomorrow and is the best looking fish they had!

I wouldn't even put doors on my sump if it looked like that. Great work

Those are an awesome freebie, do they stay open during the day like the Dendro?

What are the 2 NPS below the Setosa, they look really happy?

Stratocaster

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I was looking was looking for a way to add T-5's, I followed your lead and order 1 of these. Are you changing the bulbs or are you using the ones that came with it?

My son loves the eel. The tang is always messing with it, swimming right in front while he is looking for food.

https://www.facebook.com/sean.logsdon.79/videos/1126318247392287/

I spent 4 hours last night fraging what was left of my SPS colonies and I put half of the frags in my 29 with t-5's and half back in my 100 and I have to admit the color from the t-5's, even on browned out SPS, is better than my led's. Good luck with the reboot.

Well my run of bad luck continues! My Apex temp probe some how became 3 degrees off but I did not realize it until I started to see my SPS colonies dying in mass. I also got a 14,000 dollar repair bill from Audi at this same time so I was fighting with them and honestly was not trying to figure out what was going on with my tank for nearly 3 weeks.

When I finally got my car repaired I started to try and figure out what was going wrong and when I put my hand in the tank I thought it felt cold so I bought 2 thermometers to verify the temp and sure enough both read 3 degrees colder.

During that time a couple of things happened the fan started running all the time to keep the temp at 79 degrees, this increased the evaporation and decreased the temp to 76 degrees. The ATO tops off with kalk so the PH went from 7.8-8.1 to 8.0-8.8.

Also because so much water was evaporating I was not keeping up with the top off container refills which meant salinity was also swinging.

I have stabilized the temp and the evap has slowed to a gallon a day as it was before, the PH has dropped back to where it was before and salinity is stable again.

So far I have lost about 5 colonies and several frags but so far only the SPS have been affected. Some of these colonies I have had for over 4 years and I have to be honest I was really depressed after the loss.

Some times one bad thing cascades into to several because you do not have the energy to problem solve multiple major issues at once. If I had also lost my LPS I may have taken the tank down and called it day.

On my way to work this morning my wife called and said your tank is beeping and is overflowing. "Your son" unplugged something, what do I do? I told her to turn the main return pump back on, but she could not find the right control panel to turn it back on. The return tubes turned in to siphons and drained lower than the return grates and drained more water than the refugium could hold. The stand shower lining did its job and no water got on the floor but wife was still not happy!

Fortunately, I was only a few miles away and was able to come home and turn the pump on and clean up the overflowed water in the stand but this could have been a major problem had I not been close or in town. This is the second time something has overflowed because of my kids, but I don't think rehomeing them is an option. I guess I just need to be happy with green and brown sps until my kids get older.

I wasn't sure these 2 were even still in there