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I'm still here, and the hermit crabs are doing great, clinging to life as usual.

One of the coflakes is a real survivor, looking healthier than ever - all its polyps are out and it's thriving. The hammerhead coflake is also doing amazingly well.

The mushroom polyp coflake seems to be flourishing ...

I've had to do repeated water changes and I'm pretty sure my local LFS is getting tired of me buying all the RO they have. Unfortunately, all the livestock except the hermit crabs has died.

I'm planning to drain the tank down later and start again from scratch. Should I do a thorough clean of the ...

It appears everyone is now in a better state. I've dug out the tank's stats from the past 10 days and it's interesting to see that the ammonia spike occurred 5 days ago, followed by a nitrite spike 4 days ago, and then both returned to zero until this recent issue arose. Upon retesting today, prior ...

Most of the coflakes seem fine, one's still a bit stressed, but that's been ongoing since we got it - it's always been a bit of an oddball, putting its polyps out then quickly withdrawing them. However, now it does look more 'open' than before.

The fish are doing better today, which is a relief. I ...

The temperature's been steady at this point for a week now, and I only noticed the salinity drop when I did the water test - didn't catch it earlier. I've just done a 15-liter water change and I'm going to monitor the tank for a bit longer to see how things go.

I removed all the rock to check for ...

Take a look at my thread in the tropical fish emergency section, it's got all the details.

No, actually I was referring to my cat, not catalaphilia

No idea why you're asking, I came here for the elegance issue, not my cat.

Should I throw in the towel at this point?

Yesterday, a beam of sunlight hit my elegance head-on, and I noticed something pretty interesting - it started to swell and open up.