I'm glad to hear that the fishes are figuring it out, and not causing too much trouble.
Minor update:
I'm still working on taking pictures to post online, I just need an afternoon/evening to take the time to do the pictures right. I was holding off on announcing what corals I picked up from RaP until they were settled, but coraldrama, so I'll write a narrative, and follow up with pictures.
I did buy a flipper nano, and it's an EXCELLENT scraper/glass cleaner (though I'm not sure why it sounds like there is sand scratching when there is no sand on the fuzzy cleaning side). I scraped the coralline off the front of the tank with the flipper, and I would definitely recommend it for anyone who doesn't yet have a glass cleaner. Super easy to use, and convenient. Now I just need to save up for replacement blades down the road.
Also, frags keep falling all over the place after RaP. Fortunately no casualties yet, though an acropora horrida fell on top of my setosa colony, killing about half of it. I had never really experienced a coral directly falling on another and killing it, but that's what happened with this. Just overnight bleached half of the colony out. Oh well, Setosa is a fast grower. Glued the horrida back up, hopefully it stays. I thought it was solidly glued down, but those snails can wedge their way into crevices and knock anything over....
Also I came home to my ORA frogskin (nice sized piece too) fallen down in a rock, sitting on some zoos. Hopefully the zoos didn't sting it, it's a beautiful piece!
The ORA Purple Plasma frag I picked up at RaP I wasn't sure if it had AEFW so it was my first test of using Bayer Advanced dip. It looked like hell before the dip from all of the stress, and using my macro lens as a microscope, I tried to see if there were any AEFWs (I could post pics if people were interested). I'm pretty sure it was clean, but dipped anyway. New experience, had to be very careful to not introduce any of the dip into the tank since it's poisonous to fishes. The polyps were slow to come out on the coral, but i'm seeing some fluorescence out of where I glued the coral down (new growth I think), and most of the polyps are out now. It looks like a happy little coral.
Also, picked up a Hanna 736 phosphorous checker, and testing it yesterday, my phosphates were 18ppb, which works out to 0.055ppm, which is on the low side I think. I've been looking for ranges,
and it sounds like people want to keep it right around 0.03 (0.0-0.07), so maybe I'm a bit high, but we'll see how the algae comes out.
I'm actually finally getting good growth on the dragon's breath algae, might even have to throw some out. I wonder if I should restart the refugium to lower phosphate levels? Not sure. Right now nothing is wrong, so I guess I should keep going as I am. I'm also feeding quite a bit more, and more of the frozen rods food, and dosing AAs twice a week now... I'm sure those contribute to phosphate. I'm still at 0 for nitrate.
Maybe I need to start dosing the KNO3 I picked up? I hadn't thought about that! Feeding KNO3 to increase nitrate, so that bacteria/biological processes use up more of the phosphates. Hmmm.
