I used to be really good at this reef tank thing...

[Myka]

I feel your pain. My current tank has been set back after set back. The most recent was a year ago I added a Multibar Angelfish to my SPS reef. Multibars are usually considered fairly reef safe - especially with SPS. What could go wrong? He killed half my SPS and almost killed the half (all of which remained were green...the little prick). It took a good 6-8 months to recover from that. Currently in a good place now so hopefully I can just sit back and observe rather than mess around with it.

[DKoKoMan]

I have yet to have the multi year reef tank as I have transferred twice now. I’m hoping this one will settle in and become mature. Tired of the new cyano blooms or diatoms etc. Best of luck and always revert back to the KISS method. Lots of stuff going on in the reef world etc. That it’s hard not to try. Always a new method out there that tempts people.

[Animal-Chin]

Well and so that I'm not a total debbie downer I'm happy to report that 2 of my SPS that looked like goners seemed to have stopped receding since I took the roaphos offline and may live on!

I can't believe that I will have to re seed montipora though. I had the plating and branching for years and years and now its all gone. The stuff that was once a weed in my tank and I would actually frag and throw away because no one wanted it is back to being on my must aquire list....lol

I do still love my tanks though, we just don't see eye to eye sometimes...lol

[chizerbunoi]

Isn't that the annoying thing. You grow all these frags into colonies only to go back to your frags, if you did frag to begin with.


I now keep it simple as well. Tank, heater, lights and powerhead. No filters, skimmers or any other equipment. Just a lot of live rock, refugium in tank and easy maintenance schedule. Whatever happens in the tank just happens.


I found constantly tinkering caused me a lot of grief as well. I guess I took the fresh water/pond approach to reef keeping which is working well.