added and glued stuff in a few days ago. everything looks ok except the rising sun stag got some stn, so i had to break off a decent chunk to hopefully save it. that was a couple days ago so.. fingers crossed
i bought a salifert potassium test kit for black friday, so i gave that thing a go and it looks like my dosing corrected things right to slightly high levels, 420-440 somewhere in there. i also finished running reef flux and it totally killed off all algae. i did a small water change and added carbon, i need to do a larger water change soon, i've just been working a lot so neglecting the tank a bit. i also need to figure out how my potassium dropped so significantly. i had recently switched back to regular IO, but after blaming it for my metal issues i refuse to blame it. but when i'm not blogging tank updates i need to test my source water to see if it lacks potassium
i did send in an icp test before thanksgiving and just got the results
seems things are back to normalish. i'm apparently low on iodine, iron, and manganese according to the yellow colors. looks like this has potassium at 401, so that's good i didn't massively overdose or anything. mag 1275 is a bit low, i think i'll try to raise that up a bit
1 kamohara blenny was added without issue. only my sunburst anthias gave it a brief charge, the midas blenny didn't notice it at all. i didn't realize in qt, but he's so tiny compared to all of the other fish. i think he's even smaller than the sunset anthias. my fairy wrasses have gotten huge, especially the orangeback. i opted against adding both despite both being fine together in qt as i'd rather just go with what eatbreakfast said about meicanthus blennies not loving company long term. plus then i can add more fish..
speaking of, i hopefully have a female china wrasse on order via a qt vendor. he got two, so hopefully at least one makes it through qt and then it shall be mine, but probably not until after christmas
cyano still hangs out pretty heavily after reef flux. i'm undecided if i want to chemiclean it. i hesitate to change much right now as the tank seems to be going well except for that. coralline is popping up everywhere finally, despite my urchin army putting in work mowing it down. i hate to chemiclean and then something more nefarious than cyano decides to rear up, so i'll probably just try to syphon out and hope it matures away