vol_reefer
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Gary - of course you can post a link - glad you like them. Personally, I think the ones I took a few months later in Australia turned out better: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1460849. You're welcome to link to those too if you'd like.
Thanks Chris, Scott for the encouragement. I'm sure it'll get better as he gets a little older. We were expecting this to be a challenging period, so it's not like we're getting anything we didn't bargain for. Sleep-wise, he's probably doing better than most at his age - he'll go nearly 8 hours at a stretch now. It's the cluster-feeding and fussiness without apparent cause when he's awake that is driving us batty right now. My tank has suffered some casualties from the situation... I let my two-part top-off run dry for a few days without noticing because we were so busy. The alk dropped to 3.something. That by itself probably would have been survivable, but when I started putting additive back in, I didn't monitor the changing levels in the water often enough. The alk shot back up very quickly and the corals took some hits. I lost that nice bright green a. florida colony, a pearlberry frag, and a purple plasma frag, and about half my oregon tort colony, half a green a. horrida colony, and maybe 2/3 a royal blue tenuis. This was two weeks ago, and everything seems to be stabilized now - pretty much all the other colonies (which is the bulk of my tank) seem to be ok. Don't believe anyone who tells you global warming is responsible for reef losses - I have hard evidence that the real reason is human infant fussiness!
Jeff
