FTS of my mostly LPS tank

[Mark9]

Been awhile, picture from last night.
Had a few ups and downs.
Lost 1 sps and my clam.
Been having some health issues and it's been difficult to do water changes.
Add in a lack of monitoring and the ca & kh dropped.
Then I had an algae bloom, which is almost under control.
One of my chalices fell onto a scoly, 1/4 of the chalice dead.
Had a different chalice fall onto my acan colony, killing 1 acan head.
Had to break off some stunner, getting way too big, put the frags in the Solana, sold some.
The purple stylo is growing crazy like. Cut off a frag and sold it.
With the corals growing, i'm just running out of room.
The Fungia is doing real well in the Solana, moved over a bunch more frags into it.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Looking good!

I hope you get to doing better soon. I kind of know what you're going through. I've got a royally screwed up back and can't hardly walk for the pain. Going to get another spine surgery by the middle of March. I hope this one will greatly reduce my pain so I can at least walk more than 100 feet.

 

[Mark9]

Looking good!

I hope you get to doing better soon. I kind of know what you're going through. I've got a royally screwed up back and can't hardly walk for the pain. Going to get another spine surgery by the middle of March. I hope this one will greatly reduce my pain so I can at least walk more than 100 feet.

Thanks, but the distance picture helps, algae doesn't show.
Kudos to you for maintaining a reef tank with a bad back, must not be easy.
I hope your surgery goes well.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

No not easy at all. I can handle the water changes ok, but I can't do much in the sump. Which I need to pull all of my LR out of it and then vacuum out the crud and then find a good rock to drill holes in for my Acan frags to go on. I've got 20 or so different Acan frags anywhere from 2-10 or so heads, and would like to get them off the sandbed on a flat rock. I've got one but it's not exactly what I had in mind. I'll have to get my buddy to come over to have him do this for me. It's also time to tear down my pumps and power heads to clean them. The powerheads I can do because I don't have to get on my hands and knees LOL

I've got the best surgical team available in the area and they did a great job on my last surgery last June, they had fused L4-L5 and decided not to do anything with L5-S1, well 4 months after my June surgery it went out and is pinching nerves that affect many motor functions and give me great pain when walking. The worst part after the last surgery was I got MURSA and almost died from the blood infection. If I had not gone in when I did I would not have lived over night. So getting an infection with this one scares the crap out of me.

 

[Mark9]

Few more ups and downs, but at least i'm winning the algae battle.
Moved some corals in/out, picture from today.

 

[Mark9]

Shut down the Solana, so I jammed everything into my main tank.
It's crazy full.

 

[Mark9]

Moved a bunch of stuff out into the new tank, getting there.
Frag rack is full.
The purple stylo is getting close to the top, it's out of the water when I do a water change.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

It looks amazing Mark.

I finally got the rest of the new pictures up. Man its work to do that

 

[Mark9]

It looks amazing Mark.

I finally got the rest of the new pictures up. Man its work to do that

Thanks.
Yes, taking pictures, getting them right, posting them, takes alot of effort.

 

[Mark9]

Recent picture.
Been spending alot of time working on the tank.
Most corals doing good, except the my miami chalice which was knocked off by a snail, landing on top of another coral, which promptly ate it.
The duncan has bounced back, regular feeding seems to be the trick.
Going to have to do something with the purple stylo, it's 1/2 an inch from the top of the water, way out of the water when I do a WC.
Wife thinks i should get rid of it, says it's taking up too much room.

 

[Kactai]

Looks great man!

 

[Mark9]

awesome!

Looks great man!

Thanks for the comments.

 

[Mark9]

Decided to re-scape, got the right side mostly done.
Had to do something, the stylo was too close to the top.
The fish seem to really like swimming around/under the stylo.

 

[Mark9]

Re-scape is pretty much done.
Just need to get rid of the stunner, and that's about it.

 

[Mark9]

Made a few more changes, I really need now to just leave it.

 

[Jah2707]

I really like the gap you have made in the middle. Almost a valley. Sweet tank. Looks like you have just about every color.

 

[Mark9]

I really like the gap you have made in the middle. Almost a valley. Sweet tank. Looks like you have just about every color.

Thanks for the kind words.

 

[Mark9]

Tank is hanging in there.
Had a few issues, almost crashed it.
Had an algae problem, turbo snails fixed it.

 

[Mark9]

Changed things up.

 

[karmann]

Looking great