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Sorry to hear about your Dad. I think it's good to try and bring your tank back, I know mine is a nice reminder of color with this blah winter. Chemiclean works great, your skimmer will go crazy for days and you will have to do about a 25% water change to be able to skim again.
How big is your system? Is it a 150 gal? I currently use LEDs IT 2040 for a total of 4 over a 120. They have programmable times in 30-60 min intervals for 2 channels. I also supplement 4, 25 watt t5 bulbs to fill in shadowing from LEDs. If you can mimic the natural daylight cycle ( equitorial...
There is one in the tank I can't get a good shot of. The main sps is a hawkings echinata and another coral hit the base and has been slowly encrusting up over the echinata. It is only covering the echinata structure like a covering with the echinata form remaining. It literally looks like...