Thank you!
We thought we had sorted out our RKE problem, but now we wonder if it even is an RKE problem at all. Our lights do not run the RKE. This morning when the T5s came on, at that same moment the skimmer pumps shut off, and turned on again. My first comment to Kevin was that we might be overdrawing the circuit when things start up. He gave me a big lecture about how power draw works, and my eyes glazed over.
At this point we/I do not know if the last time we heard the skimmer pumps if something else had just turned on. Maybe adding the RKE to the tank's circuit took it just too far, and is the cause of the skimmer pumps randomly turning off.
We are still seeing steady growth, and colour from all our SPS. Unfortunately I STILL can't get the white balance quite right. My photos have too much red in them. While this green piece shows reasonably well the green is a bit more of a neon green, and less yellow-green as shown in the photo. I'll keep working on getting it right.
When we first got it
This one here actually is a cream colour, with bright royal blue tips. I just can't get my camera to capture the colours.
And to show some growth, the photos below are from when we first got this colony
This one is actually a light purple
My purple monti from a previous order,
The 'bush' is coming along well. Either it came with an acro crab, or one already in the tank, but there is one there now,
The supervisor is not impressed at our lack of sump progress
