ok so now that the cyano is dying back I am getting a rise nitrates even after changing 2 gallons. I removed a sponge filter from the overflow and changed my filter in the sump hoping that it will help some. Other than that everything looks good. I noticed my peppermint shrimp cleaning a clam that came on the underside of one of my shrooms so I figured I would feed him while he was out. He went crazy for the brine shrimp but after he was done he was picking at my larger shroom. I wonder if some of the brine shrimp got on it and he was just cleaning it off. Whatever he was doing was sure ticking off my shroom though because that thing basically turned inside out. Eventually the shrimp left and the shroom opened back up but there is an area on the edge of the shroom that looks irritated where the shrimp was picking at it. Hopefully he will be fine.
Here are a couple of pics of my other corals.
