Dont give up.

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So i bought this jackolantern lepto for my bro a few month back. He used fluco to kill thr brypsis in his tank. In return he got a nasty cyano outbreak. I told him i was going to take the lepto to give it a chance to recover. It took a couple months but seems to have recovered nicely.

 

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So love sharing shots of my tank and the progression over time. Here is 2/18/16 and 2/18/17 as well as 2/18/18 full tank shots. Some things are still in the tank today and some have moved on fragged up or traded. Thank you to all who have checked out my time in the hobby. If you have questions on what i have gone through please feel free to ask. Dont give up

 

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Reefstock was this weekend and actually made it this year. Had a good time. First time ever making to an event in the hobby. Kinda wish i wasnt so shy and star struck when sanjay was standing next to me. I got to shake hands with scott from mile high reefers from youtube. Ok guess i will stop there.....those two things made it worth going if i didnt buy anything. So onto some of the things i brought home.

 

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It ended up being 8 corals and a powerhead. My bro and i left with 18 frags 1 ai prime 1 aquamedic 8.1

 

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If you have questions feel free to ask

 

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04-25-2018

 

[mike werner]

this is a great example of why ya don't give up!

 

[CorporalFin]

Wow looks amazing great job! I hope to have a reef that nice some day

 

[MaddyP]

Welcome to the family!! :D

 

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So i decided i needed to clean my sand bed the other day what a involved process

 

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[Chrisfish]

Just went through your thread, tank looks awesome!! :)

 

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Just went through your thread, tank looks awesome!! :)

Thank you its a struggle

 

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So i posted this pic on fb on march 9th 2017. A lot changed in a year

 

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07-19-2018 not the best picture but still alive and not giving up

 

[Scurvy]

07-19-2018 not the best picture but still alive and not giving up

Thats come along nicely in just a couple months!

 

[dbl]

07-19-2018 not the best picture but still alive and not giving up

Really coming back nicely...congrats on the progress.

 

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So i have been having some issues lately. I have been testing high Po3-4 2 weeks ago it was 2.0 now its 1.0 the only thing i am doing to correct this is water changes. I did notice that the sticks in my tank stopped growing during this time. My frogspawn looked amazing with the high parameters. My discasoma mushrooms have been in a decline for months now not sure why. I think its because my nitrates plummeted from ~40 ppm to ~10 ppm. I also had high ammonia for the last couple months sitting around .50 nothing seemed to be affected by it. I also only did waterchanges to correct this. My alk and calcium are a constant battle. 2 weeks ago it was 13 and things seemed to tolerate it. Now i tested on tuesday and the alk was 6. Now this is where i believe i started seeing some dying in my tank. The hollywood stunner started to strip away. One of my sticks starting showing signs of STN. I also did a waterchange to correct this. I have since added kalkwasser to my top off water to try and keep up the stability. The high Po3-4 i believe to be in my tank do to heavy dry food feeding. My ammonia levels being so high i believe to be caused by small tiny inverts/worms dying off in my tank when i stopped feeding. I am not so good at dosing alk and cal to my tank which has caused issues. I am amazed that with all these parameters highs and lows that my tank is still supporting life.