Aftermath of 3 weeks in Bali

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Is the LR brown because stuff on it has died or because it's covered in dines or diatoms, or some other such algae? If it's just covered in grossness, it will be back to it's former glory as soon as the tank issues are corrected and the algae is gone. If the coralline has died, it will come back, but it might take a month or two to look the way you remember.

I am constantly amazed at how resilient the things that are in our tanks are. We always think they're so fragile (and relative to a house plant they clearly are), but they're just as robust as any other living thing in their native environment. I've had corals that I thought were completely dead recover from a single polyp that survived at the edge of it's encrusted base before, and my pico tank gets 100% water changes with water that's a few degrees colder than what it's used to every week, and yet that tank thrives.

You'll pull through! Now it's time to start scouring the net for some of those species you saw in Bali and seeing which ones can eventually live in your tank!