OK! Enough chat...Starting a 1000g+ Reef

[jnarowe]

Well, I did an inspection today and am still finding corals in stress. The clams are not happy either...so I don't know about this "no water change" thing.

Anyway, one acro that has been suffering for a while caught my eye and I decided to try and rescue it. Pulled it out nad guess what was staring me down? A friggin' acro eating crab!! I cannot figured out how they are getting into my system with the stringent QT protocol I have.

Anyway, they are both gonners.

So I mounted a frag rack in the display and moved about a dozen frags onto it from the QT. I have them right where I can keep a close eye on them. I still think i am having water quality issues but the overall appearance of the tank looks much better today.

 

[Micki]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10965334#post10965334 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnarowe
Sorry about the scene at the restaurant. I really thought I had locked the door!!

Ok details please...

 

[sherm71tank]

You really should be careful what you ask for Micki! Trust me, you don't want to know.

 

[dhnguyen]

Can't be any worse than my family at a restaurant Sherm. :lol:

 

[jnarowe]

I can't remember.

 

[sherm71tank]

How's the sand bed removal coming along? The pair of scribbles I had are gone to a better home (larger tank). My tank looks very empty now.

 

[jnarowe]

haven't been able to do any more what with the folks and my stupid store. I have so much on my plate right now I can't even begin to get into the tank...want to come over and see?

Who got the scribbles?

 

[jnarowe]

and BTW, one of my yellow tangs is getting bullied again. And it's the same two fish, the other yellow tang, and the purple tang. I see it has a wound too...here we go again!

 

[sherm71tank]

Jedimike from RF picked them up yesterday.

 

[jnarowe]

COOL.

 

[Micki]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10968707#post10968707 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sherm71tank
You really should be careful what you ask for Micki! Trust me, you don't want to know.

I bet I could top pretty much any story you have from when my boys were little!

 

[Bax]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10969086#post10969086 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnarowe
I can't remember.

Ahhh ... the benefits of brain injury, can't "remember" dinner with the family

 

[jnarowe]

I think they were there.

 

[jnarowe]

FLOOD-A-ROONIE

Well I did it again and flooded my tank room. I left the top-off for the QT tank in th emanual ON mode and went to bed. Today i was real busy but got some messages from the display tank that the ORP was getting low, so around 4 pm I went down to check and the whole place was flooded.

The QT tank was 1.002...a couple of frags had RTN'd, but the zoanthids and the candy cane were fine. I am so upset, I won't even vacuum the water up.

I started boosting the salinity, drawing off water, and opened up the line from the display fuge to the QT...when I left at 4:30 I had gotten it back up to 1.010. Talk about a wicked water change!

Display looks OK but the birdsnest is STNing. I am not even going to try and save it.

I am so relaxed now, I just want to set up 6 more tanks!

 

[Bax]

Sorry! Man, that sucks!

 

[jnarowe]

Good thing I am not into nanos!

 

[mrcrab]

Sorry to hear that Jon. You need to start writing yourself notes.

 

[Micki]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10979154#post10979154 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnarowe
Good thing I am not into nanos!

:eek1: :eek1: :eek1:

 

[dhnguyen]

Dude that blows.... That birdsnest was sweet looking to

 

[jnarowe]

It's all good...It might make it...or I might frag it tomorrow. ORP is down to 261 most of the day though and that is the worst it's ever been.