So here’s some details on what’s been happening and how it’s changed my tank care. So I got behind on maintenance last winter and stopped doing as many water changes and used no filter socks. Nutrients kept creeping up til about 40 ppm NO3 and 0.8 ppm PO4 until the microbes decided now is the time to flourish and I had a massive GHa outbreak. This coincided with Dinos killing off most of my snail population. On top of this my fish herbivores don’t eat much algae in the tank. So then cyano settled on top of all of this. I began doing filter socks heavily, weekly water changes, GFO and ran a 40w UV on my manifold in the sump and was able over about 3 months to defeat the Dino’s. I added urchins and more snails to fight off the GHA and basted with a turkey baster for the cyano. The last two remain and come and go a bit but I’m winning again. Sadly the Dino and cyano mat killed off most of my newer frags including all the super high end ones I last posted like vivid insanity. Some sort of microbial thing attacked my Walt Disney colony at the very beginning of this and killed it off which possibly precipitated the entire event. But the colonies never stopped growing and I have lots of overgrown coral with warfare happening. Lost one wrasse to a jump through a crack in the netting around the feeder but otherwise all the fish are growing. The mandarins have grown immensely and still spawn regularly. Some chromis have occasionally disappeared as they do. All is well in the tank and I sometimes do lose the will to work on it and decide I won’t give up but it’s still going. Don’t give up!
