Hi all, I apologize for not being posting much if anything for a long time, this school year has been hectic and busy, and I have some emotional personal stuff going on for a few months now that finally settled out. So any way, it seems it has been nearly 4 months now i have done nothing with my take, it has just sat relatively empty with a neon toad stool (which did reproduce once so now i have 2), 5 blue green reef chromis, and sadly my flasher wrasse decided to jump in the middle of the night and did not make it which stinks. He was fine for so many months, not sure why he decided to jump that night. Oh well, with the new semester coming, emotional things dieing down, and my wallet full again from Christmas, I want to get back into things, but alas on thing still stands in my way. For now 3 months I have been struggling with cyanobacterial mats, and my neon toad stool not opening. Not sure how he is still alive considering it has been 4 months since I have seen his polyps come out. I started out with the brown stuff, and so I checked everything and my pH was down so I added more flow, and it went away. In a week I got the green, checked again, temperature was low, so I got a new heater, again algae went away. SO finally I got the red, so I hooked up my old aquarium computer to monitor everything, checked all the chemical tests I had (nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, phosphate, carbonate alkalinity, magnesium, calcium, pH chemical, pH meter) and it was all fine. I cleaned out the protein skimmer then, all the pump, I did water changes, I put in a polyfilter, checked my RO to make sure it was fine, all that jazz. Once again it went away for a week, and then came back, and still my toad stool is mad at me. Also the callerpa in my refugium died out, my cheato never grows, or dies, it just floats there unchanging. So at this point I feel kinda silly since I have been in the hobby a while and I cant seem to get one single coral happy in this bloody tank. So at this point I am not sure what I am doing wrong since all my perameters check out, I even ramped my LEDs up slowly for a week, then down lower for a week, and both did not seem to do anything. So now I am just at the point of making sure it stays minimal and my corals never being happy. And whoa man this is a big paragraph XD, any way hi again masc, all dem peps, thanks for reeding this, any advice or ideas would be lovely, thank you, enjoy your day.
