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Today as soon as my migraine subsided, I decided to get my arms wet and do some work in the reef. It was cold and rainy outside, so why not play in the 80 degree water.

I removed some stuff that needed to be gone, like empty shells, some dead skeletons, etc and tried cleaning up some corals. I added some frags into the reef that have been in the frag tank for the past month or longer, and puttied / glued down frags that were broken recently by my active fish. A few items were moved off the sand onto the rockwork.

I'm not really happy with my tank lately as I don't see clean rockwork. Instead of purple coralline, I see this red stuff on the rockwork that reminds me of turf algae, although it isn't something you can remove. It bugs me, and I don't have enough snails to gnaw it away. The anemones add motion to the tank, but they also sting SPS that have been growing slowly over time. Not really wanting to get rid of them, the thought still crosses my mind to remove them anyway. It's a tough choice.

I'll take some pictures tomorrow as the water was affected by the glue, putty, and all my adjustments.

Let me know if you know of a good deal on an Apex, I think I'm finally going to have to pull the trigger and upgrade my controller.

On a lighter note, one of my yellow tangs is swimming around with glue on his mouth. Guess he was a little too curious. It'll take a few days to drop off.