Thank you for the kind wordsthat sounds excellent. Is your tank new, and did you start with dry base rock? If the answer to both is yes, then it will pass in time, provided you keep up with the good husbandry. A tank is very screwy for the first 6 months (especially when you start with dry base rock), unfortunately patience is an important part of this hobby. Just keep it up, don't get discouraged.
I started with some "cultured rock" they said from my LFS tho it was sitting in a bucket with water for who knows how long,
Then it sat at my house in the same bucket for a couple days till I was ready to fill the aquarium
So all bacteria may have died, corriline algea survived, but it died because I didn't turn on the lights for the first 2 weeks,
Anyways on the weekend I'm going to get a toothbrush for the tank and carbon and a media bag, is there any suggestions for where I should put the carbon in my sump?
Tank :Red sea reefer 170 total system 45gallons