I had a very unfortunate series of events lately. I had to go up to my family's farm for a few days after my granny had her knee replaced and I ultimately did not feed this tank for four days. I also set the Metal halide light on a timer where I had been manually running it a few hours a day and while I was gone it ran a full 8. I think the combination of stress from not eating and an increase in light led to a velvet parasite outbreak and I lost all my fish one by one except my two firefish and yellow coris wrasse . Quite a bummer. Clown tang, foxface, blenny and hawkfish all didn't make it. Now I have to trap the firefish and wrasse and keep the tank fallow if I ever want to add a new fish. Anybody have any experience with velvet disease?
Thankfully my original 75 gallon is totally separate and doing fine but I lost some good fish. Really sort of ironic how the firefish survive over all the other tough fish and are doing well , because for the longest time they were always the fish that i couldnt keep . Thankful the wrasse and firefish survived - they are great. And it will be lots easier to keep good water parameters for a while with just them in 100 gallons.
Going to work on a couple nitrate reducing projects in a biopellet reactor and hopefully a algae scrubber with some red LEDs and a driver I have left over and then just focus on water quality and coral growth here for a while.