Matt's 40g breeder

[Foxchase]

During the fallow period, my nutrients bottomed out and i ended up with Coolia dinos. (one thing after the other i swear). Stopped doing water changes and ghost feeding like crazy but nothing was helping. Sand bed was overrun by dinos, rocks taken over by GHA and what I would imagine was bryopsis. Corals werent looking good either.

Fallow period ended and the surviving fish went back into the DT
Which was only the Yellow Coris and lawnmower blennie

 

[Foxchase]

Forgot to turn my heater back on after a water change overnight once so I bought an inkbird controller. (literally one thing after the other)

 

[Foxchase]

I've been fighting dinos ever since. Tried Dr. Tims method, blackouts and overfeeding but nothing.
Finally went and spent money i didn't have on a UV as a last ditch effort for black friday. Been running since along with dosing nitrates and phosphates. Levels other than 0.

 

[Foxchase]

Some comparison for what it looked like vs where I'm at right now

 

[Foxchase]

Unfortunately, my lawnmower blennie also just passed. It stopped eating completely and starved to death no matter what I tried

 

[diana a]

Wow you have had a tuff run since Sept

 

[deepblue68]

Uggh hang in there man.mad reefer had a bout with dinos and I think he beat them down.

 

[Foxchase]

Uggh hang in there man.mad reefer had a bout with dinos and I think he beat them down.

Thankfully, iit has gotten a lot better than what it was. But it's going so slow. Biggest challenge now will be restocking the tanks

 

[mickeysreef <*))))<]

toss a black mollie in there to confirm ich gone