[goldenmean]

Thats everyone. My nano appreciates the loce!

I early December I decided to move the blue spot and striped shrooms to the 55g as I was not happy with how their colors were fading. The shrooms are much happier now under the MH. They are opening big and brightening up.
I had also bought some Green Star Polyps for the 55 and a couple of pieces broke off the colony so I decided to put them in the nano.

During this time the nano also started to get a small batch of green hair algae. It was always just a small patch, front and center of the tank by the Trachy. Using the hands of god (chop sticks) i would remove it and do a WC but a week later it would be back. This went on for several weeks - always just a small patch in the same general area. It was not spreading.
Then I noticed the GSP were not opening up and the fungia was pale, thin, and her mouth was gaping open all the time. That concerned me enough to test. Ammonia and NitrItes were 0 but NitrAtes were at 30. Yikes!
I am sure it is my overfeeding my seafood slurry.
I do a couple of big (30%) WC on each of the next couple of days followed by daily 10% WC for the rest of the week. I cut back on feeding.
A week later the GSP started to come back out and the fungia was looking plump and getting some color back. TrAtes are back to below 5.

I got the Water quality issue corrected just in time for the Nano's 2 year birthday. This led me to starting this retro look back. 80+ pics later we are caught up. I also realized that i felt my tank look its best at the 1 year mark before the Zoanthid wasting episode. Today the nano needs some TLC - a little punch - to light a spark under it.

I decided to do some major reworking of the rock. I emptied about 3g of water into a bucket with a power head and removed all the rock and corals except for the rics, fungia, and the two biggest pieces of rock. The fish, shrimp, and the rest of the CUC also stayed. I then rebuilt my lil reef.
Here is a FTS of the new reef along with the part that I am happiest with. The home of the Baracle Blenny is now front and center in the tank. Bibo was amazing during the move. He stayed in his home the whole time and I even removed his rock from the water for about 30 seconds. I kept watching for him to jump out of his hole.
Play Wheres Bimbo with the 2nd pic.

This post has greatly exceeded my word/pic ratio rule.