Things have been going really well, good growth on my coral, had ich return but things have settled down after adding a UV sterilizer and using the polylab reef medic. I debated doing the H2O2 dosing but haven't seen anything get worse so holding off, but I have got the doser and supplies ready to go.
Main issue is cyano which has never gotten too out of hand but has sort of just been lingering, Po4 is at 0.05 and no3 at 10 ppm for a while now, what is getting annoying is the blackish cyano with air bubbles showing up on my rock and getting close to coral. I have chemi clean but am very hesitant to add any chemicals. I may turn down the auto feeder to feed a little less and use smaller pellets cause I think a lot of the medium sized pellets are going uneaten.
I have to go out of town for at least a month to take care of a relative so my main thing has been keeping everything stable and not making any changes so that the person taking care of my tank has the least amount of work to do. I already set up an enormous RODI reservoir and started a few weeks ago automating and monitoring everything with as little input as possible to make sure it is all good to go when I am gone.
I will premix and fill 5 gallon jugs for waterchanges, since I change about 5 gallons a week that will be pretty straightforward, I have large enough 2 part reservoirs to last a month, and two auto feeders that should also last a month if they are set to rotate alternatingly. In the end, all that will have to be done is 5 gallon water change once per week, clean out the skimmer, and replace co2 media. I thought about setting up AWC but worry about doing something with so many moving parts without the time to monitor is before I leave, same thing with the calcium reactor, I am nervous to set up anything that I cannot see in action for a month or two and make sure it doesn't need more tweaking. A fellow reefer is taking care of my tank, but I don't want to have him needing to troubleshoot.
