Well after a week of ski vacation in Colorado and a couple days of work, I'm finally back!
Let's start with the latest installment of "It's always something" . . . two frags broke free of their glue including my Pearlberry frag which wiped, the RO top off which is running through a home rigged Nilsen reactor while I wait for my new one to arrive clogged and the top off stopped for several days, my file fish jumped into the overflow and had to be carefully extracted, and one of my ballasts needed a capacitor replacement . . . but heh . . . all in a days work for an aquarist . . . haha!
Interestingly enough Jason from GA lost his Strawberry Shortcake colony which was spectacular. Keep in mind that he too added ReefBrite LEDs over his system only a few short weeks ago. Although this is highly anecdotal and unscientific is it possible that something about intense blue LED lighting kills certain corals. My colony is holding on, but still not really recovering its coloration even after I moved it to the lowest possible position in my tank.
On another note be sure to get a copy of Coral Magazine this month and look at pg 53 for shots of my tank! Sadly the blue Radium lighting distorted the photo in print production, but none the less, I am proud to be included in such a worthy publication!
Oh and one last note . . . I'm in a discussion on RC regarding refractometers. I am not convinced that certain models sold as "seawater" refracts really are indexed for natural sea water and so far my testing at home seems to bear this out, but I still have much to learn with regard to this topic so I am holding back on any final judgement.
