Yeah it's been running since July/august. To be perfectly honest, I have never legit cycled a tank. I start small, lots of filtration, seed with live rock, never saw the slightest problem. I did lots of param checking the first few weeks, no problems. Now it is clearly cycled for some time, well before I got the elegance.
I had the diatom bloom, the the red slim bloom... Both of which are long gone now. I'm just now in the midst of the hair algae cycle but so far it is under control, particularly with the help of a GAC/gfo combo product (blue life clear fix pro) and my fingers picking it out.
With regards to the elegance coral, I think they both may have been irreparably damaged by the flatworms, as one died before I found it and the other was half receded. I did coralrx dip the one, but then I worked 4 nights in a row and it just continued to recede. Who knows if it was the flatworms or if it was just too stressed.
I have two little sps frags that are happy and the other elegance is fine, so I doubt it's water quality. Oh and a clam too, they're pretty touch to water conditions and he's never been anything but open and bluuuuue. Could be that I lacked the micronutrients for the damaged elegance to recover, as I haven't done a water change in 2 weeks (work...). But still, everything else is flourishing. Silly elegance, so touchy. I will leave my tank to just the one for now.
Perhaps if I started dosing mag and calc I could try again, but with my schedule I work random days, nights, weekends, etc so I have no reliable days off to do testing and dosing, so I think it's best left alone if the other corals are okay. It's not perfect, but it's working well enough to enjoy it
