Thanks Buddy. I really wouldn't worry too much about a new camera.. the rebel XT is still a very good camera, much better than mine. Ya, there are better cameras on the market now, but the XT can still hold its own. As far as videos, I just upload them you youtube.
My 29G is actually doing pretty good compared to my 75G. I only have 3 fish in the 29G though. I can't wait for my 75G to finally turn the corner and start to look good again. This morning I pulled out almost all the dead corals and tossed them and scrubbed the rock again. I am now down to just a handful of corals left in that tank.. literally. I went from 40-50 different corals to now 5 little pieces left and a big Duncan colony, none of them SPS. I am back to having this really hard red turf algae taking over.
The tank also smelled like a sewer as I was working on it from all the death in the tank. I have pretty much been neglecting it for the last month.. probably spent a total of 5 minutes in front of the tank in the month and that was just to feed the fish. I also pulled out a large rock that was covered in black sponge and was starting to spread to other rocks.. and that stuff does not scrub off.
When I do start to restock my corals in that tank though I don't think I will be doing any SPS corals anymore. They were fun and educational for a while, but too high maintenance, costly, and stressful for my taste now. I want something I don't have to worry if I sneeze wrong around the tank it will crash it, so it will be mainly LPS from now on. I think I am going to start getting into an Acan phase myself since those have become reasonably priced now. A few years ago they were $10-$100 per head.. now even the very high end ones I can find for $10 a head and more common ones are around $2 per head which is more to my liking.
