Some pics. If anyone in Calgary ever wants to come over and help me take some good quality images that counter-acts the effect LEDs have on camera sensors, I'd be happy for the help. We have a pretty good camera now (these pics were taken on it), but it's still washing everything out in the images compared to real life. I don't know what else to do!
FTS front
FTS back
South detail front
North detail Front
North Detail photo bomb. You'd think I never feed this guy.
South Detail back
North detail back
Update on the tank - I've been battling low grade dinos for a few months now. I've been trying to be super aggressive with nutrient control, but at the level of phosphate in the water I need for good coral colour, I also get expanding shadows of dinos in the sand around the base of my rocks. I'm also getting a few patches of cyano here and there. It's not getting out of control or anything though, so I haven't really wanted to take extreme measures that can upset the whole system.
I was sure my purple queen anthias were going to starve to death (bought on impulse with no prior research), but I think I'm on month 3 now and all three of them have gained weight. I'm having more troubles with my other anthias - I've got 3 females and two males. I think it's triggered one to turn in to a super male, which is awesome as he's so much more brilliantly coloured, but he's been bullying the other male something fierce.
House is still for sale, but it hit the MLS two days before the flood, and since then the market for homes in our price bracket has been pretty chaotic, so we've not had much traffic. As it stands, the tank is still mine, but I'm still not spending much money one it as I don't think it will be mine for much longer.
I've been having a heck of a time keeping my alkalinity up the past month or so, it hovered around 6.5-6.7 for nearly a month, and my birdsnest took a serious beating. My other corals are growing faster than they ever have right now though, which is why I think the demand is so high. I'm presently dosing 165ml of randy's two part baking soda solution per day, and 130ml of anhydrous calcium chloride solution. I also recently added a third dosing chamber for magnesium, and 30ml/day seems to be keeping the levels around 1300ppm. As of two days ago, my dosing schedule finally brought my alk levels back up above 7.
I'm getting so bloody sick of using filter socks - they sometimes clog and start overflowing after 18 hours these days. WIthout them, my sump design allows too many micro-bubbles to get back in to the display. I've been toying with the idea of completely re-doing my overflow plumbing so that I can have an overflow that functions on the same principle as a BeanAnimal (I have the right number of holes), but that would be a major undertaking if the tank is just going to get broken down. If the people who buy my house want the tank, I'll probably do it.