abcha0s' 300G Ultimate Reef

[lastlight]

Wow the rock went purple quite fast that's impressive. It was bone white when last I saw so that's a great sign. Awesome collection of fishies you have there. We should do LED sunset beverages one evening lol.

[Delphinus]

Sorry to hear of the challenges. .. summer is a hard time for tanks I think. Things are looking good though.

[abcha0s]

2/3 of my SPS are thriving. The colours are deep and rich. The PE is good.

1/3 of my corals are either dying or dead. Some still have reasonable PE, but have completely bleached. Some are clearly dead.

I can't figure out what's going on?

Somewhat frustrating...

[lastlight]

Sorry to hear that Brad. I can't offer any suggestions but I hope that turns around.

While your rock is looking more mature that stuff might take a long time to really catch up to where live rock would have been I imagine. Maybe not... just thinking aloud. Isn't this hobby FUN?

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by lastlight

While your rock is looking more mature that stuff might take a long time to really catch up to where live rock would have been I imagine.

I've been wondering this same exact thing too Brett. Even though my dry rock looked like collected live rock by around the 2-3 month mark, at 9 months in my tank just seems to be having issues that one really would expect out of a newer tank. It's not unfair to think that dried rock needs more time to catch-up.

I'm sorry to hear of your issues Brad. FWIW, and probably for a myriad of potential causes, summers are hard on tanks. With the level of attention to detail you've put into yours, I'm sure yours will turn around in time. My own tank is suffering issues. No coral losses (well, one montipora did recede but it's not a loss at this point), but, just stuff that shouldn't be happening. Bryopsis, hair algae, sludge algae, cyanos, diatoms, dinoflaggelates. Dinos are the worst thing, it's so demoralizing because it just doesn't go away, and it's lethal to anything that samples it.

[MustangMX]

Hey your tank looks amazing, hows everything going in it now?

[abcha0s]

Hi Mustang / All

The tank has been ticking along. To that end, I am very grateful for all of the work I put into automation. Maintenance consists of little more than cleaning the skimmers (5 minutes/Week) and occasionally cleaning the glass (5 minutes).

I have to say that after several years of constant building, tweaking, upgrading, adding, fixing, tinkering and generally obsessing over the tank, it's very nice to just sit back and just look at it - without feeling compelled to change something because it isn't absolutely perfect.

I suffered a complete loss of all my corals which really left me discouraged. I can't explain what happened. My best guess is leaching from my 200G saltwater storage resevior. I plan to get rid of this in favor of a smaller resevoir, and hope that the problem goes away. I will eventually figure out what went wrong and start over, but rather than going crazy over it, I am taking my time. I finally learned how to have patience.

The good news is that my fish look spectacular. I have a great collection of fish and they are all thriving in the tank (go figure). I lost one goby and a shrimp, but other than that all of the fish are doing great.

At the end of the day, I still love my tank and I still love this hobby.