Yeah BABY! My colors are coming back!

[Canadian]

My colors are starting to come back!

I've added some sand and a whack of new fish and feed them 3 times a day (added fish include 6 green chromis and a yellow tang). I've also been able to stop dosing Zeovit additives. Additional changes have included: removing the filter sock and performing weekly 5 gallon water changes (previously bi-weekly).

I still have some corals with significant bleaching on the upper portions of branches but I'm hopeful that based on the recovery so far those corals will recover over the next couple weeks.

[cuz]

sweet!!!!

[don.ald]

OK stopped zeo?

removed the sock?

feed 3 times a day?

do tell more i dont get it?

[Canadian]

Originally Posted by don.ald

OK stopped zeo?

removed the sock?

feed 3 times a day?

do tell more i dont get it?

I didn't "stop Zeo" per se because I'm not running a Zeo system. I was just using some of the additives to try to feed the corals while I had poor coloration and have since stopped using amino acids, Pohl's Coral Vitalizer, and Pohl's Xtra. I stopped these because I was hoping that the addition of the fish, additional fish feeding, addition of sand and removal of the filter sock would make more food available to the corals. And thus far I'm seeing pretty dramatic results.

[lorenz0]

looking alot better than your previous pictures. good to hear about your progress

[christyf5]

Wow thats awesome. Fish poop to the rescue!
Love the white sandbed *sigh* lucky bastard

BTW, your aquascaping puts me to shame every time I see it Side photo please?

[noirsphynx]

Looks great. I love you scape, very unique.

[Canadian]

Originally Posted by christyf5

Wow thats awesome. Fish poop to the rescue!
Love the white sandbed *sigh* lucky bastard

BTW, your aquascaping puts me to shame every time I see it Side photo please?

This is the only side I can take a pic of. The tank is shoved into the corner and I can't get far enough away from it on the other side to even take a pic.

And if anyone is reading this and uses a Canon G10 please feel free to share some settings and photo taking hints because I still can't take very good pics.

[wayner]

Fish Poo! - looking good Andrew!

[Canadian]

Originally Posted by wayner

Fish Poo! - looking good Andrew!

Thanks!

Don't forget about the sand - I assume it's helping trap some detritus to drive up the organics in the tank.

Also, I feel like I have a lot of fish in a 50g tank:

6 Green Chromis
Yellow Tang
Chalk Basslet
Sixline Wrasse
Saddleback Clown

Does this seem like a lot of fish to you guys?