u/lhbruen

The last 45-60min of the day feel like a different tank as the lights dim to the west, and all the fish have gone into hiding.

Tank is ~1.5 years old and has experienced a lot of changes, from lights, to wavemaker pumps, to livestock. The lights unfortunately bleached some corals until I made some moves. I had a large turbo snail that nearly wiped out all of my macroalgae in a week, which for those of you that recognize this tank, that snail nearly wiped out much of my natural filtration. For those unaware, this tank has no sump and no skimmer. Instead, I do a series of small water changes every day (6L/1.5g), and remove small clumps of macroalgae when necessary. There are two heaters (connected to a controller), two AI Orbit2 pumps, and a 700+gph canister filter that contains some rock rubble and is vastly infested with pineapple sponges that help filter. Currently, the only dosing I do is RedSea Magnesium because the RedSea salt I use runs low, sub 1200. There's also an air pump outside that has its tube running all the way inside that pumps a fresh stream of outside air.

Over the past year, the tank has gone through some unexpected outcomes, like a pack of bumblebee snails that ate 2 of my 3 clams in less than a week until I removed them. Fortunately, I was able to save my original crocea clam, though I wish I had read more about bumblebees and their supposed appetites. I've read that they're like peppermint shrimp, which can result in seemingly docile specimens that are actually a very similar looking species that'll hunt anything small enough... I too suffered that. I had 6 peppermints which ended up killing 2 small fish and an assorted amount of invertebrates and even corals.

I lost one chromis to jumping out, but still have the remaining 20 of the original 21. So far, they all still get along well, and some have even attempted breeding many times, but I've never seen surviving fry. I also removed a few rock pieces and moved some algaes and corals around, so the tank's look has changed. I introduced one small RTB Anemone over 6 months ago, and within a few months it started splitting. I now have SIX and will likely remove some over time.

The tank has been a wild ride, but it's still going strong.

RIP ur gainz tho

To be fair, my calls are $205, but I made this meme in solidarity for our soon to be fallen siblings RIP

For the record, I don't hold any bitcoin, just here for the gooner finance conspiracy