The tank continued to improve and each day we would hit an LFS to have water tested and look at things we wanted. We finally had gotten some hermit crabs and some snails to go along with my 3 stooges and we would buy rock each time we would go into an LFS…another stupid move, but miraculously things survived. Since I am on that subject I will now tell anyone who is setting up a SW tank DO NOT do things this way, regardless of the success we had.
I think we just got lucky or maybe perhaps it was because we had been through so much and a higher power knew there was more to come so spared the tank losses.Who knows, but I do know that we did everything wrong although at the time we felt we were doing it right since we weren’t having any issues as algae outbreaks or losses. I did have one issue with the little plants in this picture and that was when they would touch the sand it would turn it green. Well those had to go because I wasn’t having green sand in my tank!
Somewhere through this time period to about the 20th I don’t have pictures which I think is because I was not able to take pictures by myself and so they were too blurred to see or too much movement that they were deleted. The pictures that are half way decent were taken by someone else or were taken when Jack would help me hold the camera still, push the button or something