Tank Entry

I'm being cautiously optimistic that the reef is recovering properly. Here are three pictures to show you the general overview.

My reef definitely got cooked by overdosing bacteria in recent months, and it took me a while to figure out what was wrong (as you know if you read my blogs). I'm doing a soft reset rather than a hard reboot now. I'm not going to dose any additives for the next six weeks. I pulled the biopellets offline to stop any additional bacteria introductions, and I'm doing some big water changes to hopefully help the corals turn around.

I feel like anything I do will spook them, and I don't ...

Being sick is never fun, and knowing your reef isn't doing well only adds to your misery. I'm reclining per the doctor's orders and just watching tv, little energy to do anything else. But knowing some corals are declining is frustrating. (Knowing customers are waiting for their orders is even worse, but I need to be on my feet first to take care of those items...as soon as I feel stronger that is.)

I wrote an email to Prodibio to see if they had any direct suggestions to reboot ...

Recently I've read a few threads where people's tanks were dead when they arrived home after being away. I always make some type of arrangements to have someone stop by daily just to do a quick visual inspection and throw in some thawed food. Usually this works out quite well, but over this past weekend, it was somewhat of a cluster.

Mere days before I had to leave, mine cancelled on me because he and his family were heading out of town as well. My home is automated so I texted another ...

I just got back from MACNA late last night, but walked in on a semi messy situation. It took me about 30 minutes to get everything squared away, and I was really glad I didn't extend my trip by even a day. As you know from my previous blog, I concluded that I badly overdosed Prodibio and caused issues with some corals in the process. I also worked hard to get things back on track before it was time to fly to Denver.

At the show, I explained what I had observed to the president ...