It has been a while since I updated my thread. I have been busy with life outside of my tank. I will likely be moving from Ann Arbor to the Twin Cities area in the next few months and have been busy with those plans. Unless things get too crazy as the move date gets close, I fully intend to move this tank and most of its inhabitants with me. I have posted for sale on this site some of the corals from the tank, but they haven't moved and I will likely keep them rather then sell them back to the LFS. I have plans for how to move the tank, and I will discuss those in a later post.

OK, in the past couple months there have been some changes to the tank as far as equipment and livestock.
Equipment changes:
1. The submersible Aqueon heater I had in the tank showed much internal condensation build-up. I removed it and replaced it with a heater by Eheim Jager.
2. One extra Koralia 425 added for a total of 3
3. I modified the Aquaclear 50 HOB filter by insertion of a media basket from the company InTank. This basket allows water to be first filtered through a poly-filter pad before entering a second chamber containing Chemipure Elite. Without the poly-filter pad the fine mesh bag holding the Chemipure Elite gets covered in debris over time.
4. Added ~$20 Air King fan (also sold under Sunlight Supply brand name) to keep tank temps under control during summer. The 80 degree March weather provided a nice test for tank temp stability under the new MH light.

Livestock changes:
I decided to venture into the realm of SPS. I purchased several frags of Montipora digitata of red, green, and purple color. The purple digi frag was browned out and had tissue loss at the LFS, so I got a large discount on it. It is healing well now, but still has not regained its purple color which I witnessed when it first arrived at the LFS. I also have a second brown or browned-out digi frag that I hope will change colors. I also have a nice Bird's Nest frag. This I started too high in the tank and it lost some tissue on its tips. I moved it to the bottom and it is 100% recovered now.

Also added a peppermint shrimp which has effectively reduced aptasia population.

Top down view showing green digi at top
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Top view of Bird's Nest
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Another top view showing various corals including Duncans:
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That's all for now. I am using a different camera, but still not very good pics...