I can't figure out how to post pictures in comments (always asks for URL) so I'm going to post here instead. Here is the cooking vat: The one thing that is doing great through this whole thing is the Rose BTA. It has grown 4 times it's size in the same time period. Notice the hair algae on the rocks and the hammer coral wasting away. This picture is actually underwater ...
About 10 months ago my tank was doing great. I created a little gallery of the tank with Iphoto that is available here: https://www.icloud.com/journal/#p=02....jb/index.json Around Christmas this past year a rapid decline started. I started to lose some corals (mostly Montipora) but everything else looked fine. Shortly there after the hair algae ...