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No, nothing had changed. Every night he would spend about 30 minutes diligently covering the open hole of his cave with sand, and then dive through it. I guess he had grown larger, so maybe that's why he got stuck. Here's a slo-mo video I captured months ago:

Sadly, this was the last I saw of my goby. He didn't come out the following day, and didn't come out this morning. When I saw my Apex ORP probe dropping rapidly, I suspected something died in the tank. I dug out the sand from where he always sleeps and found his body stuck in the sand at the opening to his cave. He always buried the cave opening each evening, and then darted through the sand into the cave. But apparently this time the sand was too thick and he got stuck. I'm pretty bummed. 😢

No, that favia is about 6 inches away (looks closer in the photo) and I routinely look at my tank every night with a flashlight (because that's just what I do) and there are no tentacles long enough to come close to the chalice. Plus, this has been a long, slow decline that you wouldn't even notice day to day, but over a period of weeks the color loss has become apparent. I'm taking Rudy's advice to move it to a darker area for a while. Hopefully it bounces back.

I came home from dinner tonight and found this. I started getting muscle cramps from squeezing the turkey baster for 10 minutes to clean it up. 🙄 Drag the slider left or right to see before and after:

I bought this chalice two months ago. For the past month or so, it has been slowly losing color, and now some tissue is starting to recede. I have it placed on a rock at the bottom of my tank, partially under an overhang where 3/4 of the chalice gets light and 1/4 is shaded. PAR in the light is 150, PAR in the shaded area is 35. Water flow is low-medium. Here are my water parameters: Salinity: 1.026 Temp: 78.0 - 78.3 F pH: 8.0 - 8.4 Alk: 8.5 dKH Cal: 420 ppm Mag: 1350 ppm NO3: 4 - 8 ppm PO4: 0.02 - 0.04 ppm I dose BRS 2-part, and my Trident measures Alk/Cal/Mag multiple times per day so I know there have been no spikes. I also target feed Reef Roids twice per week. All of my other corals (SPS, LPS, and softies) look healthy. Could it be too little flow? Too much light? Other ideas? Here are before and after photos: Aug 15, 2019: Oct 11, 2019:

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I’ve started seeing aiptasia return to my tank after being clean for about 4 months. I’ll pitch in for 10 nudis.

Luckily I'm retired and home all day...it's nearly a full-time job to blow the sand off the lower corals. He can be a total pain, but he does keep the sand super clean! My sand was ugly green-brown before I got the goby.

Woo Hoo! Congrats! Today I just had to frag mine because it's getting out of control. These things can grow into monsters.

Things are looking good!

Did you cryogenically freeze it so if a cure for velvet is discovered in the future you can bring it back to life? 🤣🤣🤣

I have a Neptune flow sensor on the return line after it exits my UV. I can then use the flow readings in my Apex programming to turn off the UV if the flow is too low, like during feed mode when I reduce my COR speed. It also turns off the UV when the water temp is too high, or when I'm conducting maintenance. UV ----------- Fallback OFF Set OFF If FLOW_4 > 200 Then ON If Tmp > 78.3 Then OFF If Output Maintenance = ON Then OFF

The frammer I got from you has been growing like crazy, so I'll need to frag it up at some point soon. Same with my duncan. The two of them are trying to take over my tank!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think your new coral is a Trachyphyllia, not a Lobophyllia. My understanding is that Lobo's have a bunch of enclosed rings, but Trachy's are more of a wavy structure enclosing a central core. Lobo: Trachy:

I plumbed mine directly into the return line, and added a bypass valve to allow for UV maintenance without interrupting the return flow. This ensures 100% of the water reaching the display tank has been hit with UV.

We’re getting all the vendor tables set up. Lots of great looking corals!

Wow, that's surprising to me. My tailspot only ever nips at algae on rocks or the back glass of my tank. Sorry to hear about your dilemma.

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Yikes. How did it happen? Were you doing some sort of tank maintenance? Do you know which coral(s) are toxic?

The problem with float switches inside a skimmer is that they can easily get gummed up with skimmate. While this is more expensive, I absolutely love my Avast Marine skimmate locker. It has a built in pressure switch that shuts off the skimmer when full, and a large enough volume that it only needs to be emptied every couple weeks. https://avastmarine.com/products/djsl

Somehow I doubt I can convince my wife to cancel our NetFlix, HBO, and Amazon Prime Video subscriptions to just watch our kole tang trying to eat our cleaner shrimp's antennae and our diamond goby burying that mushroom again for the ninth time today... 🙄

Wow, I tuned in right as they were showing the octopus using the two half coconut shells for shelter. Very cool! I'm going to DVR the show to watch on Friday. Thanks for posting!

If you missed it, you can watch it again or DVR it later this week: Nature Octopus: Making Contact A professor raises and studies a pet octopus in his home and makes remarkable discoveries. Past Broadcasts Wednesday, October 2 from 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. on OPB TV Upcoming Broadcasts Friday, October 4 from 1:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. on OPB TV Sunday, October 6 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. on OPB TV

Nice growth and colors!