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OK so it looks like I picked things up at 2-25-10. Since then there has been a night mare of brown diatoms or algae in the tank. I believe it is the "Italian Springs" Sea Veggies Green Seaweed produced by Two little fishies, please prove me wrong... as I have been a huge fan of every thing produced by Two Little Fishies for many years now. I feeed the seaweed for ten days then stopped completelly the last few days. I was feeding a good 3inch by 6 inch strip rubber banneded to a peice of live rock.
I picked up four fish a medium 6 inch scrilbbled eyed rabbit fish, a (micro) fire fish who jumped into the over flow... got him out jumped back in, got him out jumped back in went through to the sump... took out the protein skimmer and pump then got him back into the display tank and has been there since last night in the display that is. I need to build some wedding net covers as I do not prefer egg crate over the returns as small as he is. I can't remember the exact date that I got the (small 3 inch) sail fin yet I know it was from green tree when I purchased the lights, the VHO t-5's one all white one 50-50 actnic blue, along with the yellow eyed purple tang ( small 4 inch) and purple and yellow wrasse ( 1.5 inch) who is doing very well. My Zoanthoids are opening up again and spreading rapidly producing new heads constantly under my 10 K MH lights (Thank you Bobby!). I have been loving running my two new VHO T5's from around 12PM to 1-2AM for an extended photo period with the MH running from 7PM to 1-2 AM as usual.
I am extremely concerned with my Xenia coral in the back left corner which was spreading all around a 7 inch rock so well for the last 3-4 months until I entered in the sail fin tang which I am afraid may be consuming it based upon other reefers posts. I plan to make a bottle protection for it with in the next day or two as it has been picked down quite a bite yet I have never witnessed it. It was one of my favorite corals as it was so prolific. My sun corals were under a rock for four days and went from 40-50 heads to 6-10 and I have been trying to recover them since. The brown algae seems to be so hard to fight against. The last four days I have dove in with a turkey baster twice and pushed off every thing that looks like it every other day . Aside from my daily magnet scrapping of the sides. I am still cleaning out the protein skimmer collection cup every day, and the throat leading up to it once every four days. At the same time my Xenia started declining my hammer coral did the same there must be a connection. I lost one of my prized clams from Vietnam last week yet the other is doing great. The one that pasted over night never would attach its strings to substrate adn would always list on its side.
I have been doing 4-5 gallons of watter changes 3-4 days per week over the last 5-6 weeks as well as adding part A and B calcium and alkalinity supplements for the last 4-5 months every night a slight squirt.. I will test tomorrow for my TDS in my RO/DI unit. I have been replacing my phosban stuff in my sock every two weeks. I have been cleaning my sponge in my sump every week. When I first got the new VHO lights and fish I added a cotton floss to the sump and left it for a week then removed it and haven't used it since.
The last 5 days I have gone at all of the rock work and corals with a turkey baster to get off the brown allege every other day after waiting four days before the second treatment. It is amazing how quickly it comes back, even with water changes.
So I am really worried about this brown diatom bloom, my hammer coral hasn't been opening up for 4 weeks, my xenia has been demolished over the last four weeks, I lost a prized clam two weeks ago, and I am having to go into the tank every couple of days now due to this darn brown diatom out break...
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I gradually raised it up over two weeks to 1.026. I was having issues with all softies shriveled up. 
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