Thanks, Koestby.
Current issues in the tank:
1) nitrates and phosphates elevated
- carbon dosing to bring them down
- reduced feeding of fish from one cube each of brine and mysis shrimp to alternating days (one cube of brine one day, one cube of mysis the next)
- cleaned out rear chamber with circulation pumps, scrubbed down sump
- installed home made algae scrubber two weeks ago (started to build up film algae but no hair algae yet)
- would eventually like to not have to carbon dose to keep nutrients in check, but system needs time to build up denitrifying bacteria naturally instead of me forcing it
- skipping this month's purchase of fish (to replace the sunburst anthias) to not add bioload to the tank
2) Clown Goby, citrinus. In the two months I have had him, I have yet to see him actively eat. He has to be eating something but I fear the supply may be exhausted since he is starting to thin
- tried various types of foods, frozen, brine and mysis, pellets
- purchased some cyclop-eeze over the weekend hoping the smaller particles would work. He didn't actively feed the last two days I used it
- purchased materieals for a QT system. If he doesn't start actively eating, will transfer him to QT in the hopes that isolation will aid in feeding
Haven't lost the two remaining Acan frags (one has almost fully recovered from being partially consumed by the fromias). Difficult/moderate care level (gorgonians, sponges, basket star) are all doing well. Haven't had any large scale algae blooms (isolated algae, cyano, diatoms). Did notice two different colors of cyano film algae, the common redish pink color down in the sump and a lime green color in the corner of the DT. The two red stoplight cardinals, while still hiding behind the rock have started becoming a little more active to the point where I can spot them easier.
