I've had my fair share of ups and downs in this hobby but right now I might be at one of my lowest.
First, a crack in the seam of my display tank forced me to take everything down and house everything in a Rubbermaid stock tank. Without all my fail-safes in place, a kalkwasser incident caused me to lose a majority of my livestock
. It's been a couple of months and things have settled down in the stock tank and I see some growth coming along. It's just tough to take inventory when you can only see top down
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All summer long, I've been battling dinoflagellates in my frag tank, with me on the losing side. It spread so rapidly that I lost a good chunk of my SPS and was depressing to see everything overcome with algae. Lights have currently been off for a week and my skimmer has been emptying about 5 gallons a day. Things a starting to look clearer and I'm hoping I can overcome this when do more maintenance on the tank this week.
I had plans of upgrading my frag this summer but I've been in the market for a bigger house, so all my tank dreams have come to a halt. I'm sure the cooler temps will force me to become more involved with my tanks, but for now, I'm not sure where I'm heading
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