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As many of you know I had decided to do a restart on my tank and correct earlier mistakes/lack of knowledge from when I started my tank 2 years ago. Several of my corals were dead or dying and I had placed corals into my tank that I later realized was a mistake (Xenia, blue clove polyps, ect...) I looped my pump return from my sump back into my sump again, kept the skimmer running, maintained a constant temperature, maintained choeto in the refugium, and kept the biopellet reactor operational to ...

Well I thought I would give a quick update on what was going on with my tank restart.

I ordered 50lbs of keylargo rock from Marco Rock that has arrived.

I purchased a 10 gallon tank and filled it up to use as my frag tank, painted the back glass, made a frag rack out of light diffuser, installed a heater, 30 gallon rated biowheel, added a nano korelia, added led lighting, waited for the temperature to level out and started moving over frags. I did not cycle the tank though ...

Ok so I have been through a lot with my current tank and set up but I am starting to lose some very hardy corals and as well there are some things and corals I would like to rid my tank of (blue clove polyps, xenia.) My rock I bought "live" but it is not very porous and I think may be leaching some bad into my water as well. So I am thinking about "starting over" and wanted to get some input.

First off if i do this my equipment and tank would remain the same but ...

Hey guys can't help but the write real quick and ask what is everyone biggest mistake so far in this hobby? at this point as I watch yet another blue clove polyp spawning I wish I had never put that coral in my tank, they are worse than xenia once they start spawning and there are so many of them I think they are the reason I am having issues growing sps....

I looked over at my tank just a minute ago and was wondering what I am looking at.

If you look in the "mouth" of one of the heads you can see some white something in there sorry this is as clear of a close up as I can get. dare I say it almost looks as though my hammer is about to have a spawning event, but that is just a guess as I have never seen this before. they are individual white ...