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Keep the tank. You're gonna need something to keep your mind active. If all I did was work and change diapers, and do dishes, and work and give baths, and work and change diapers, I'd jump off a building.
Ive got two toddlers myself, this reef stuff keeps me sane some days
This is why I like the hobby. It's hard, and then even once you figure out the basics, it's still hard. It's similar to cooking in many ways. I might go to someone's house and say oh wow this tank is excellent, what are you running your nutrients at, what kind of lights ect ect. I then file that...
Take it eeeeeasy on the dry rock. I didn't know any better when I started and live rock wasn't a thing anymore. Went with dry rock because that's what people told me to do and I ran into a lot of problems.
funny enough my wife wants a tank, I might have an evo incoming. Yours looks great
It's the chicken or the egg. I pulled some gigantic coral, binned it, then had crazy swings. Stabilized it. Then had phosphate readings of about .8 for a while. Stabilized that. after abojt four months of tinkering, I'm back on track. Just by looking at the tank, my wife would have no idea...
I think all the talk over the years about Alk spikes killing corals is somewhat true, it's just misguided. "Something" happens in a reef aquarium that pisses off the coral. This causes Alk consumption to decrease, which causes an Alk spike. The hobbiest sees unhappy dead or dying corals, tests...
I want halides, but the setup has to to be appropriate. Once I get my next project built out, it may be an option on at least one tank. Just to try it..