Haha Yup I live So lets see if I remember how to post pictures and stuff. First off I killed all my acros that were happy and healthy back in May I think, or I had a big alk swing and everything bleached and slowly died over the course of the summer. I am not 100% sure what killed everything, but there were 3 survivors. I can't grow acros and I am thinking it has to do with a huge variety of things one being I just didn't have time for my tank this summer and fall. I ordered a dosing pump and I am going to start dosing vodka/glucose/vinegar and also MB7 (I gave the bio pellets a go and they just aren't right. They wear down really fast if they tumble too fast, and they get clumpy and make your nitrates spike if you tumble them too slow. (Those two things also happened this summer, again with the death of so much its hard to blame just one thing, there was one point when my nitrates were at zero... my water was super clear and stuff started bleaching... lights again maybe to blame for that...) I haven't had time to test and think and read and ask and make my tank better. As most of you know I have 4 kids. Well this fall the three girls decided to do soccer. , and my son decided to do rocket football which my husband coached, so we spent very little time at night over the course of August September and October at home.. . I know excuses, excuses oh well take them of leave them thats what my fall looked like. SO without further adue here is the tank, it has turned into a fish with live rock and favia/ other simple lps tank. My fish are happy healthy and fat, (again the uglier the tank got the less I cared about nutrients and the more I feed my fish because they still bring me joy) I took these pictures quickly tonight w/o a tripod on the auto all setting so they aren't very good but the tank pretty much looks like crap so fancy good pictures won't help that just wanted you all to see what I am dealing with here.
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thats good for now photo bucket is having issues
So lets see if I remember how to post pictures and stuff. First off I killed all my acros that were happy and healthy back in May I think, or I had a big alk swing and everything bleached and slowly died over the course of the summer. I am not 100% sure what killed everything, but there were 3 survivors. I can't grow acros and I am thinking it has to do with a huge variety of things one being I just didn't have time for my tank this summer and fall. I ordered a dosing pump and I am going to start dosing vodka/glucose/vinegar and also MB7 (I gave the bio pellets a go and they just aren't right. They wear down really fast if they tumble too fast, and they get clumpy and make your nitrates spike if you tumble them too slow. (Those two things also happened this summer, again with the death of so much its hard to blame just one thing, there was one point when my nitrates were at zero... my water was super clear and stuff started bleaching... lights again maybe to blame for that...)
I haven't had time to test and think and read and ask and make my tank better. As most of you know I have 4 kids. Well this fall the three girls decided to do soccer. , and my son decided to do rocket football which my husband coached, so we spent very little time at night over the course of August September and October at home.. . I know excuses, excuses
oh well take them of leave them thats what my fall looked like. SO without further adue here is the tank, it has turned into a fish with live rock and favia/ other simple lps tank. My fish are happy healthy and fat, (again the uglier the tank got the less I cared about nutrients and the more I feed my fish because they still bring me joy) I took these pictures quickly tonight w/o a tripod on the auto all setting so they aren't very good but the tank pretty much looks like crap so fancy good pictures won't help that just wanted you all to see what I am dealing with here.
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