well, i've had a few setbacks over the last few months. I've lost quite a few fairy wrasses, after prazipro and monitoring them eating for a few weeks in qt, i added using an acclimation box for a couple days, then released during lights out. a few ate, then hid, then vanished. a few swam in the rocks never to be seen again. those losses include, but are not limited to, two male flame wrasses, an aussie scotts, and a girdled. my rhomboid pair was doing perfect and getting fat until one day i found my male in the overflow, i put him back in the display and he was fine. next day, overflow again, saved. the next day, overflow again, released back in the tank never to be seen again. i made a few more fish orders but none seemed to work out. i had everything from wrong boxes sent, to delays, to flat out my fish not being in the box. lol. I added a purple tang just to watch him get beat to near death, however i rescued him with a one in a million net swing, and he has recovered in qt. I placed a large sps order and had nearly 100% of the box doa or dying. i tried to save the corals but they all died in my tank which spiked the parameters a bit and caused quite a bit of cyano (as you can see) but that is starting to go away. thank goodness the company stepped up and sent another box. I'm complaining but I know there are MUCH worse things that can happen in this hobby, so i'm thankful that nothing was catastrophic.
anyway, on to the positive. my new sps order arrived much better and the colonies seem to be doing fine (i just need to get them to color up now). my 4 helfrichis seem to be doing good together. and all the current tankmates seem ok. (although, i'm a little worried my achilles may be a little over aggressive). and my water had cleared up quite a bit (but i did add an undersized uv sterilizer to help with clarity).
I'm still trying to figure out the white balance on my camera to take better pics. i'm also working on taking better videos but here's an updated video anyway. not too happy with the quality, but oh well.
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You may want to keep an eye on the Scott's as they can be very aggressive.
But in the next few weeks ill have a major update. Hopefully a good one
