Cleanup

Long time no post... because long time no good tank maintenance LOL .

Serious now, I've been running the tank on autopilot for a while now....

• Since May 1st, started dosing Balling Plus to move Alk, Ca and Mg up. Just a basic dose of each, to slowly move params up.
• Since late-April feeding with auto-feeder twice a day. By the jungle algae my refugium developed, and the few algae spots that appeared in the display tank, clearly it is too much food...
• ATO refilled weekly,

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It has been a while since I last posted, mostly due to lack of time due to work overload.

Which obviously meant I also had little time to take care of the tank, and it went backwards.

My 4 mithrax crabs gradually died (of age I believe), leaving me without valonia eaters, which isn't good. One of the mithrax crabs (the hardiest of them, last to die) apparently was of a different species and I caught him eating my zoa colony. Moved him to the sump a month ago, and I ...

Today I had the wonderful surprise of finding a dead roach floating in my sump, apparently already decomposing... but probably not for too long as it was still in one piece and apparently still had a body.



Well, removed and dumped it, then took the opportunity to clean up my skimmer's cup, which was smelling pretty bad... the worst I've ever smelled it....

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