I may need you to teach me photography.It was after I moved my tank a few hundred miles. I had no livestock losses during the move, and no nitrate spike but still under .5ppm. But I stirred up something bad in the sand bed and every kind of horrible algae you could think of was out of control (1 year tank at that point, water was where it should be, SPS lovin' it, Euphyllias feelin' it, and was finally past all the nasty).
What I failed to realize is that I did NOT shipon the junk from my sand bed before OR after the move. I know I probably could have saved it, but the electricity bill was just too high to keep trying.
It became a very sucessful planted tank after I shut it down until, you guessed it.... I moved again. And I couldn't keep up with the electricity (250w MH reduced to 150w, but to no avail). So I only have my 20gal cube rn while I continue to setup my 150g.
BTW -- This was so long ago, that green Stag cost me $65.00. And it was maybe 1/2" shorter than that.
My favorite part of my tank. This relatively large, thriving pulsing Xenia colony. I fragged enough of it BEFORE this picture to fund getting a 250w MH setup (fixture, bulb, pendant, ballast). It grow like a dandelion.
And here is the first [blurry] Pic when I moved it. This was all the corals and fish back into the main display. I sold the large xenias colony and kept a few heads .
Recreating what this tank was is why I still had a 10gal cube afterwards, up to a 20gal cube, now to be a 150g. So it just took me a while to really dive in again.