I think my husband and I are both tired of the frustration that comes with a reef tank. It is a huge burden time-wise and there are the constant battles. We have not had it as bad as many with our battles, but that does not change the fact that we are starting to hate the hobby. We currently have 3 emerald crabs working on the massive bubble algae outbreak. Even though we lost all three euphyllia in a week, back several months ago we kept working on it. Three weeks ago we bought 4 beautiful corals from the LFS and put them all by themselves in a quarantine tank. One has a little bit of bubble algae, and today I saw an aiptaisia on the scoly. Really! a $300 stupid coral and it has aiptasia. I have NO aiptasia in my main tank, so thank goodness I put this in quarantine. But this is just kind of the straw that is breaking the camel's back. We test phosphates and alkalinity pretty much every day trying to keep the parameters stable (sick of that for sure). Today after the discovery of the aiptasia, we started talking about what would happen if we went to a fish only tank (no corals). That would stop the daily testing. Since we have all of the fish the tank can support, we would not be adding anything else. We have a refugium in the sump to help with phosphate and nitrate export. Would it be an easier (and possibly for us - more enjoyable) experience to go fish only, or would that bring another set of problems with no corals in the tank? Our tank is a RedSea E170 with sump. We have 2 black ice clowns, two zebra barred dart fish, two banghai cardinals, 1 yellow watchman goby, 1 tailspot blenny, 1 royal gramma, 3 emerald crabs, 2 blue legged hermits, and an assortment of nassarius and cerith snails and 3 Mexican turbo snails. We do not have much in the way of corals. We have 4 Acan Lords (micromussa), 1 pitiful head of a neon candy cane, 1 sunset montipora that has finally started to grow onto the rock, and 1 lobophyllia in our main tank. The QT has the four new corals that may be the end of our coral career: a scoly, two trachys, and a rodactis mushroom (three of the four are beautiful - one trachy is struggling). If we go fish only, how do we get rid of the corals? Or should we get rid of the whole thing? And how do we do that? Help please.