One year in and I'm starting over

[Calm Blue Ocean]

I'm to the point now where if I started over again I'd be quarantining all corals because dipping obviously doesn't get rid of all the nuisances like bubble algae, some sort of tube worm that has taken over and some mini ray-like parasite that likes to attack hammer skeletons.

I only have 4 corals in my old tank but that turned out to be plenty to learn the same lesson. I had one coral that came with aiptasia, bubble algae, a feather duster, a peanut worm, a tiny crab, and some sort of nudi. And that's just what I could see! Definitely a crash course in what not to let pass with a simple dip. On the bright side, I found out that my peppermint shrimps are definitely the aiptasia eating variety.