Couple nighttime PE

[niloc16]

acclimating new additions is the most fun with the kids, my son is 3.5 and daughter is 1.5 and both of them hover over the buckets talking to the new additions. i guess they think it helps when they say, "its ok, you'll have new friends soon". the hardest part for me having them around is when i'm up my ladder doing stuff in the tank the 2 of them feel they HAVE to climb the ladder as well. next thing i know one is pushing the other over the side and i have to grab onto them while holding the frag in place to glue and then i have water running down my armpit and i lose the frag anyway into the sand, they are screaming at each other and then i have to send them away. and it starts all over again

blaster - i dont know exactly one thing that did the dinos in. the final draw was an 8 day blackout with about 4 hours in between of light. looking back on that, the blackout is why i lost most of stuff because there was so much dino's and such a huge die off they polluted the tank and wiped everything out and i was not running alot of carbon or chemipure at the time to help absorb it. but all together i did a ton of stuff with the blackout being the most effective. here is a list if you guys havent read it yet of all that i did

replaced all ro/di filters twice
extra water changes
less water changes
shutoff CA reactor
cleaned all pumps and adjusted flow patterns
reduced feeding to every 3 or 4 days (poor cleaner shrimps suffered from this and became fish food)
chemi clean (which did nothing for it at all except kill off a clam)
tested any type of water associated with the tank.
replaced MH bulbs
reduced photoperiod
major sandbed syphoning (more then usual)
trochus snails (very very bad idea because the dinos killed them all in about a week, another great waste of money)
couple bottles of jack daniels for myself
blackout for 8 days. i had only planned on a blackout of about 3 or 4 but i kept checking the dinos and it took a full 8 days for it to be completely gone.

then a week later there was small spot on the sandbed again and a tiny bit on the back wall. i syphoned the sandbed area and now it hasnt returned and on the back wall the dinos went away on their own.