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Any gurus out there who can tell me whats going on with my sand? TIA!
Is this normal the appearance of the sand look purplish with some green and bright orange? is this coralline algae?

Hey guys,

I had a few questions about the proper way to resilicone an old tank. I have a new to me 75 gallon tank which made it into a few pictures on here previously (link). The silicone between the glass panels is fine. However, the silicone around the internal portion of the tank has gotten beat up and scraped into by its former owner. As such I am uncomfortable with using the tank before I attempt to fix the silicone. However, I want to do this correctly and have a few questions. ...

... always be polite.

No update in months, but all is well. I should start each post with "nothing has died" since that's always good news for a beginner, so let me start over:

Nothing has died. Most corals showing growth, especially the frogspawns and hammers, and worms are more numerous--and that's a good thing 'cause I love my spaghetti worms. My tank reached a point where I was able to "safely neglect" it, although I still gave it weekly water changes. Actually, that's almost all ...

After last nights horrible storm that produced a 3 minute surge followed by an outage, my Apex display is no longer working. It is lit up and the controller is working as far as I can tell. However, the display is blank. I tried power cycling it a few times trough out the day and have not had any luck. Anyone have a similar experience that has found a fix? I lost a large tree last night and had to take a day off of work to clear the road, so I am hoping that I won't have to buy a new one.