Yeah, I need to take another good picture of the emperor. He's lookin' mighty yellow these days!
Quick update on the system:
-everything purring along until my Apex started acting goofy
-some slight fluctuations of alk but nothing crazy, it did cause me to lose a little color in some of my acros but most stayed nicely colored
-using a loaner Apex (thank you for good reef buddies) and shipping my unit in for repair. I anticipate getting it back next week
-no more CYANO!!! Woohoo!
-moved all corals off the sandbed and enjoying the negative space and having my beach back
-will be cutting up some corals for the next few weeks prior to C4
-introduced several new fish that were in QT and also some that went in directly, replacement leopard wrasse female, pencil wrasse, tomini tang (my first tang back in the tank since the marine velvet epidemic), niger trigger, flame hawkfish, male mandarin goby, red linkia, and blue linkia,
I turned off the skimmer and UV for 3 days as an experiment. Let's say I didn't like the results... the water got slightly cloudy from an increase in bacterial populations from the biopellets and the emperor got ich really quickly. I turned back on the skimmer and UV and everything is croaking like an emperor fish again... snapping like a pistol shrimp?... cleaning like a cleaner shrimp? encrusting like a monti?.... hmm.... they all sound good.