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Did a lot of work to the tank last night and this morning. Last night I did a really thorough cleaning where I blew off all of the rocks and stirred the sand around as I did my water change. Cleaned off all the glass this morning and such as well. Because of the cleaning I've got some diatoms this evening. They weren't there yesterday... and I doubt they'll be there tomorrow. At least I hope they're gone! ;-) I've got some new corals since the last time I took pics too. I've got two blue ...

And I actually have a few polyps of that particular one growing in the 400g.

So I haven't been super active on here lately, having a lot to do with the fact that I recently moved and have been going through a bunch of crap with my tank. Since reseting the system up in January I have been battling STN on all of my SPS and have basically gone through and tried to correct for every possible cause of general SPS unhappiness. For reference, my parameters have been pretty stable at the following:

Salinity: 35 ppt
PH: 8.0 - 8.2
Alk: 9.5 dkh
Calc: ...

well I seem to have some interesting things transpiring in my tank, first off my female ocellaris seems to be hanging out near the Rose BTA, which might I add is on the opposite side of the tank from her beloved zoos but what makes this a little more interesting to watch is that the BTA is in an area that the yellow tail damsel has called home for quite some time, they have been together for a long time and do not fight (in fact when they were younger they used to school together) but they seem ...

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I recently found my alkalinity went to 6.1 dkh. I dosed within a few hours to bring to 7.1 in a 24 period. Will dose again to bring to 8.0 ish... So, I was cleaning the tank this morning and was saddened to see my Sally Light Foot Crab "belly up" on the bottom I know invertebrates are often sensitive to ph and alk swings.... Here are a few pics that I took, morbid curiosity.



But, as always in ...