cm11599ps
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I'm at the tail end of a divorce which as you can imagine isn't all that fun. I got the house but can't pay for it myself. There is an apartment in the house and I found awesome tenants but it took some time and I got behind on the mortgage. I'm currently in the process of modifying the loan to stay in the house.
With that said, I kind of lost interest in my tank. I made RO and my ATO was going but it's probably been well over a year since I changed the water. I fed infrequently and lost my firefish but I still have my clown and royal gramma. Skimmer was off and one of my VorTechs had fallen and was sitting on the sand bed for months.....
In October I began to get back into things. I began taking out some GHA, fed better and more. I was just trying to take it slow.
A few weeks later I'm at my sisters house watching football when my tenants contact me. They said their ceiling is leaking bad which is directly under my tank. :-( I rush home and find my return spewing a lot of air bubbles. I open my cabinet doors and see my sump water level is really low and there's some water on the floor.
Turns out that a clump of GHA found it's way into my u tube and clogged it. As you can imagine, no water was draining into my sump but my return pump kept pumping which made my tank overflow. To top it off, my ATO activated and continually pumped fresh water into my sump and it only stopped because my ATO reservoir emptied. Oh, and my APEX got fried as a result of the tank overflow. I sent the APEX in for repair and got it back about a week later. This was in November. I was disgusted and let things slip again...
It was only yesterday, February 8 that I finally decided to get back into things. I got my APEX installed with some basic programming done. That was a relief. I spent all morning today pulling some GHA and chaeto out of my display. There's still some strands of GHA left but 99% is history. I've got two MP40's and cranked those suckers up to help clean up my rocks. Right now my softies are shriveling in fear. I cleaned my glass, cleaned the splash guard on my light and got my skimmer working again. The tank looks so much better then it did just 24 hours ago.
In the coming weeks I'll be doing some water changes and getting my parameters back in check. My bulbs are due for a replacement too. Once I get the parameters in check I'll slowly start restocking and the first will be a cleanup crew. I don't see any crabs and at most 5 snails left.
With that said, I kind of lost interest in my tank. I made RO and my ATO was going but it's probably been well over a year since I changed the water. I fed infrequently and lost my firefish but I still have my clown and royal gramma. Skimmer was off and one of my VorTechs had fallen and was sitting on the sand bed for months.....
In October I began to get back into things. I began taking out some GHA, fed better and more. I was just trying to take it slow.
A few weeks later I'm at my sisters house watching football when my tenants contact me. They said their ceiling is leaking bad which is directly under my tank. :-( I rush home and find my return spewing a lot of air bubbles. I open my cabinet doors and see my sump water level is really low and there's some water on the floor.
Turns out that a clump of GHA found it's way into my u tube and clogged it. As you can imagine, no water was draining into my sump but my return pump kept pumping which made my tank overflow. To top it off, my ATO activated and continually pumped fresh water into my sump and it only stopped because my ATO reservoir emptied. Oh, and my APEX got fried as a result of the tank overflow. I sent the APEX in for repair and got it back about a week later. This was in November. I was disgusted and let things slip again...
It was only yesterday, February 8 that I finally decided to get back into things. I got my APEX installed with some basic programming done. That was a relief. I spent all morning today pulling some GHA and chaeto out of my display. There's still some strands of GHA left but 99% is history. I've got two MP40's and cranked those suckers up to help clean up my rocks. Right now my softies are shriveling in fear. I cleaned my glass, cleaned the splash guard on my light and got my skimmer working again. The tank looks so much better then it did just 24 hours ago.
In the coming weeks I'll be doing some water changes and getting my parameters back in check. My bulbs are due for a replacement too. Once I get the parameters in check I'll slowly start restocking and the first will be a cleanup crew. I don't see any crabs and at most 5 snails left.
