Work's been eating my whole week so the tank basically just got fed and glanced at, no drama though which honestly I'll take
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That Favia Though
The favia has just been quietly doubling in size while I wasn't paying attention, puffs out at night like it owns the place, meanwhile the goniopora is still deciding if it likes this tank at all
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Blackout Time
Hair algae and some green spot decided to throw a party on the glass and rock so the lights are getting a serious schedule cut, dropped the photoperiod down and I'm doing a short blackout stretch to see if that knocks it back, sand's got the brown diatom dusting too which feels like piling on at this point, corals don't seem bothered at least, just my sanity with the algae scrubber
Algae phase, working on itPhoto Date
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Water Change Day
Bucket out, hose in, same old dance
After trim + water changePhoto Date
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Meet the Tang
Added my first fish today and went with the Yellow Tang, took forever deciding on a name and landed on Mango, he zoomed straight into the rockwork and hasn't fully forgiven me for the move yet
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Ghost Feeding Season
Two weeks into cycling and I'm just standing over an empty tank dropping in tiny bits of fish food like a weirdo, dosed some bottled bacteria to speed things along too, rock's got that thin brown diatom haze on it which I'm told is a good look right now even if it doesn't feel like it, water's crystal clear at least, no fish yet, just me and my ammonia test kit having a very one sided relationship
Cycling, still sparsePhoto Date
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Water's In
Topped her off and got the filtration running, nothing alive in there yet but it's official now
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Leveling Purgatory
Spent the whole afternoon with a level and shims trying to get this stand dead flat, 120 gallons of water does not forgive a lazy setup, rearranged the dry rock about six times before it stopped looking like a Jenga tower and started looking like something a fish might respect
