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Ok I am glad to hear this, I figured the same thing. Thought it was better to just get it over with at once and let the healing begin sooner instead of trying to face an uphill battle saving them

I have a picture of the ones I found on my coral somewhere, but if you google them you'll get a good idea of what they look like, I found them by inspecting my tank with a flashlight a few hours after lights out.

Interesting point! I wouldn't have thought of that at all, but makes sense

One additional annoyance has been vermetid snails, it seems that ever since I have been trying to get rid of them and superglue them shut there are more of them. It seems the level to which they are harmful are debated but they just annoy me. It also seems that whenever I do a water change they...

Lots happening as always, some steps backward but still feels like more steps forward, really happy with the growth I am seeing on my coral and really as opposed to be discouraged with the set backs really just want a bigger tank to correct some of my mistakes

Next thing I am working on is my light schedule, I am still slowly ramping up to higher intensities but sort of paused when I was having some issues because I don't want to be doing too much at once. But currently there is no ramp up or down, my light just goes on at noon and goes out at 8 pm at...

I set up a co2 scrubber a few posts ago, after which my ph got up to 8.3 even 8.4 in the day and I think it did help my growth. I was skeptical at first but then I saw my alk usage go up so I thought maybe it really was happening. However that did not last really long and then even when I...

This favia sort of just started developing a hole in the the top of it out of nowhere maybe a week ago, but it seems to have leveled out and hopefully will close up again

What is the protocol for trimming or killing palys/zoas? I have a lot that are overgrowing and want to keep them at bay but am scared about toxins, can I just cut them and siphon them, or aptaisa x them or something? Same goes for my anenomes, they have gotten out of control! There are like...

Some coral warfare going on between the valida and the palys, really thought the palys would take over the its been slowly encrusting towards them

So few setbacks, but still trucking, all that being said I have seen some growth on my coral and plenty of things are doing well.

My latest mistake was leaving my dosing pump on on accident and dumping a whole bunch of two part into my system. By the time I caught it my alk had jumped from about 8.3 to 13 or so, luckily I had a lot of water mixed up and was able to do probably about a 50%ish water change which brought it...

Next difficulty has been my continuing battle with cyano, I have done two seperate blackouts, one 2 day and one 3 day about a week apart, but it keeps coming back. Used to only on the sand but recently it has gone on to the rocks a bit and getting close to some coral. My po4 is about 0.1 (up...

Around two months ago I found some MENBs in my display tank, I had found them in my frag tank a while ago, and then got rid of the montis in there and set up a clean tank. Was bummed to see them in the display too but just tore off the bandaid right away and threw out all my montis that night...

I can make frags of this in San Leandro too, I've got one or two ready to go

I feel like it’s also a timing and quantity thing. If your prophylactically treating a few fish at a time TTM is probably best, but let’s say you out a fish in your established tank and then have ich, if you’re gonna follow a fallow period and have to wait anyway, putting things in copper for a...

sounds good just shoot me a pm

I have some of these in San Leandro too if anybody wants

Too bad, but definitely good to know. I luckily have some cipro lying around I can put to use if anything starts to get really bad

Thanks both of you for the tips, luckily I had plenty of salt so I just did a big water change with that and got the alk back to 9.3. Maybe tomorrow change out the GFO if it hasn’t dropped a bit more. So far things looked alright so hopefully crisis averted