All is well with the tank, between school, work and all my projects I haven't been present online as much lately. The tank has largely been on autopilot aside from top-off and feedings. I got a chance to actually do some work this weekend though.
Pink Stylo has colored up well, no noticably growth yet though.
I'm currently holding a lot of corals for a friend who's tank was going through some bad dinoflagellates. Taking all of corals didn't cause a dino outbreak in my tank, so it's clear it's a problem of nutrients rather than some sort of outbreak from exposure.
The corals were looking pretty bad when I took them, but they started recovering immediately. Here's his beautiful elegance:
Several of the trachs in the front of the tank are his, as well as most of the frags in my frag tank.
I was able to cleanout my frag tank this weekend. I moved all the frags to the sump and then drained it completely. I had previously put a bunch of PVC tubes under the racks to allow breeding grounds for microfauna. This worked very well, but I ended up cleaning it all out because some texas trash polyps were taking over. I scraped the tank down and dried it out. Bleached the racks and got rid of the taller racks. Now it's just one level and all clean.
The big powerhead is a seio I got from Champion Lighting Supply's box of crap deal. It's actually a really nice pump, I have it adjusted to it's lowest setting so it doesn't blow the flesh off everything in there.
A sweet cyphastrea frag, this one of my friends corals, but I'm going to have to find a way to frag it, because it's too nice to give back in one piece.
My cousin sent this frag up with my mom when she visited family in southern california:
