A couple things have happened with my tank the past few days. I noticed all of a sudden most of my aiptasia are gone!!! Finally! I put in 10 berghia plus eggs quite a while ago and haven't noticed a single missing aiptasia, and hadn't seen the berghia since. I had aiptasia everywhere, tons of tiny ones and many big ones. Now I only have a patch of them right where the flow is the highest coming out of the closed loop. I thought I better try catching some berghia and passing them on before they run out of food. I got a red light, put the fish to sleep early, and turned off the closed loop pump for the night. I still have decent flow from the return pumps. Several times during the night and early morning I sat and looked and looked for some berghia and never saw a single one!! Not sure what to make of it. And I still have the aiptasia in my sump. So I'm wondering if the filefish finally started showing some interest in the aiptasia, or maybe it's just a passing phase like diatoms or gha. Not sure yet. Maybe they don't like the higher light? I haven't seen the filefish picking at any. So I'll keep watching and try to catch something eating them. In the end, it doesn't matter, they're almost gone!! Yay
Today Timfish came by and we redid the bottom panel in the canopy. I have a kessil in each corner, then I had the 5th one to the side, in the middle, just past the center brace. Having that one towards the middle made a big shadow. So we made a new bottom and cut that hole further to the side, and made the hole for the 6th one even on the other side. The difference in the tank is amazing! It makes much more of a difference in the tank than I thought it would. I'm thrilled with the result. I was also able to turn the intensity down overall. I will need to move a few corals into shadier areas, but I have tons of shady spots that can use some color. I'm looking forward to being ready for some highter light loving SPS.