Well it has been over a month without any updates. I have continued to have some highs and lows but things are all working themselves out now.
Lost a few heads of candy canes... but not all of them.
I managed to clean off some of the algae from the back of the tank.... what a pain in the arse.. I don't know how some people keep it so clean.. within a few days though the algae was growing back.
So I made an order, and got myself some Phoseguard by Seachem, the 500ml bottle. Used about 3/4 of it and put it in the AC70.
Within a week I have noticed a reduction in the bryopsis, but the hair aglae (which I have less of) is still going strong.), but I don't mind the looks of where it is in patches right now.
I have started dosing for Calcium and Alkalinity. I am using Kent Tech A & B, in addition to Kent Coral-Accel. The later two I am dosing 6ml each, and 10ml of the Accel.
Within the first day of using this, I noticed all my SPS seemed sooo much happier. Polyp extension noticeably imbroved and so has color.
The baby clowns are still doing good. They are getting a little more harassed now that I put my Koralia3 back in this tank to get more flow. I am now up to 48x.
Elegance is still doing nicely. My large female clown still is testing it out for hosting. Took me a month to even get some decent shots of her buried in it.
So to the pictures: (Note: All these shots are taken with flash so you don't get the nice flourescent colors of the corals like you otherwise would see...
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Omen is still growing and is almost the size of Jigsaw the picasso now. I would say less than half an inch difference.
As you can see though, he still hasn't developed the Onyx coloration.
Big Momma checking out an Asternia Star. I have 2 of these in my tank.
Stripes, the Bengaii Cardinal (sorry for the crappy pic.. camera focused on the green algae spots and not the fish) has gotten larger now and no longer hides from the other fish.
Hermit Pile
Green Bottlebrush, taken with flash... has been encrusting very nicely.
Unknown Acro front side, the polyps end out more now than they used to since starting to dose.
The back side of the same Acro, showing there is new growth of branches starting. woo hoo.
This Acro really extended it's polyps after.
GSP is liking it's new spot at the front right of the tank. Close up shot.
