Weekend update by Ty Ta:
Okay, no SNL style show here but good bullet points.
I'm over my ich worry. Fish are eating like pigs and the one that broke out first is over it. The rest should follow within the next couple of days.
Alk was crazy low in the new tank. We're talking in the 4's. Getting it slowly back up over the last couple days. Sitting at around 6 now and aiming for 8. That should stop the STN I've been seeing in the new tank but still doesn't explain what I saw in the old tank. Perhaps the old tank had too high of alk since colonies were being removed as alk and Ca still were being supplied by the CaRX so those colonies STN'ed, and then in the new tank the opposite problem was occurring and they were STN'ing due to low alk.
Cooking up some baking soda as we speak. I feel like I run a meth lab right now... Breaking Frags!!!
Aiming to move the rest of the corals to the new tank this weekend
During the week, I'll slowly aim to clean up the last big rocks I'm moving over and transition them as well
At the end of the week, I plan to catch all the little fishes left in the old tank (6 chromis... 1 already made the trek in my volleyball size birdnest colony, 2 clowns, 1 hippo tang, 1 banghaii cardinal, 1 midas blenny, 2 mandarins, and 1 dartfish)
I'll end up moving my last 2 reactors over to the new tank, already setup the CaRX last night on the new tank
Aiming for next weekend shutdown of the old tank... wish me luck!