Considering total system reset...

[asylumdown]

Guys I need someone to talk me through this.

Ever since my coral disaster, I have just not been able to get things where I want them. The corals are all growing like mad again, but while that whole mess was happening I developed MAJOR cyano issues and aiptasia has simply taken over. I've probably got 100,000 individual nems in there. I had success with Berghia once in 2012, but they missed a single anemone and two years later here I am. I've put Berghia in there twice again, once in January, and once about a month ago, and nothing. Something's changed in my system apparently and they're not able to breed like they did the first time.

This cyano cycle is really starting to wear me down as well. It seems like the only way to treat it is to dose the tank with unknown chemicals or play around with hydrogen peroxide every day and neither of those is really all that appealing. I take a week off from sticking my hands in there every day and it's back, all over everything. I've reduced my fish population by three large fish, and am trying to reduce it further, and everyone's on a diet, but I just can't get ahead of it.

The notion of shutting the whole thing down, draining it, cleaning it, and dipping all my rocks in acid keeps running through my mind. I'd have to re-home all my fish, and I'm not sure what I'd do with my corals (probably sell most and give someone big chunks for free on the condition that I can have frags back or something), but looking at this thing is really starting to bum me out, which is insane considering how well the corals are doing again.

Ugh. Am I crazy for just wanting to re-set and start fresh?