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Wanting to take a picture of one subject, I ended up with a few to share.

The Hammer zone in the center of the reef is impressive.


The Yellow Scroll coral is healing a little bit more every day.


This was a blind shot with a top down photo box. I just pointed and clicked, and got a decent image from the effort.
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For anyone who has ever battled Satan's algae (bryopsis) currently or in the past know that it can be a very daunting task and will test your mettle to the point that giving up even crosses our minds. Bryopsis is not your typical algae, it does not require high nitrates or phosphates to thrive. Bryopsis will strike a clean spotless tank just the same as a dirty tank so despite what you may have been told if all you have is bryopsis in your tank then you do not have phosphates leaking from your live ...

So here I have finally discovered that the algae I have been fighting isn't hair algae or caulerpra toxifica but bryopsis instead . I know that the two main ways that people seem to fight this stuff is by raising the magnesium (not a fan of that idea with me actually keeping millepora alive for a change) and the other option a foxface rabbit fish.

I am not scared of adding a foxface to the bioload of my tank as I am confident it won't make any noticeable dent in that but ...