Friendly reminder to always check your tank!

[FishyFishy!]

Try to look at your tank and equipment every day...unlike me!!..just got back from vacation. Realized that the skimmer on my FOWLR was barely producing bubbles. Upon further investigation... a ton of baby snails! Well...they are shells now.... I'm surprised that they didnt tear the pinwheel apart!

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c38/bilmaga/20170110_193638_zpsgbml4sc1.jpg (http://s24.photobucket.com/user/bilmaga/media/20170110_193638_zpsgbml4sc1.jpg.html)

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c38/bilmaga/20170110_193647_zpsnxmedeau.jpg (http://s24.photobucket.com/user/bilmaga/media/20170110_193647_zpsnxmedeau.jpg.html)

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c38/bilmaga/20170110_194358_zpsx4qzubfn.jpg (http://s24.photobucket.com/user/bilmaga/media/20170110_194358_zpsx4qzubfn.jpg.html)

[GoFish]

Nice catch! That's why I put screens on skimmer intakes (wedding veil) and clean every week or 2 :wink:

[FishyFishy!]

Nice catch! That's why I put screens on skimmer intakes (wedding veil) and clean every week or 2 :wink:

Interesting! Do you get that at a hobby/craft store?

I think im going to use some hard plastic mesh.

[DKoKoMan]

Wrong thing to read as I'm currently in Maui and I don't return home until Sunday! I have someone watching the tank, however they wouldn't have a clue about tee equipment. I'm already scared to come back to my tank (sps corals) after this 2 week vacation.

[FishyFishy!]

Mine isnt too bad. I was gone for two weeks. I had a lazy tank sitter who didnt fill my ATO container on my reef. So I had a pretty huge salinity swing. But not much happened. My big bonzai colony is starting to STN and a lot of my zoas melted for some reason. And I now have a weird outbreak of bubble algae and hair algae in my frag tank.

Next time I might actually hire someone with experience.

[DKoKoMan]

I'm hoping I experience similar and not a coral wipeout. I'm expecting the tank to have an algae breakout etc. Just hoping nothing silly happened. I'm with you FishyFishy and will probably look for someone with saltwater experience. I had a hard enough time finding someone to feed the fish, do the top off and be trusted inside my house!

[FishyFishy!]

and be trusted inside my house!

Yup! This! I guess we're left with paying a company at this point.

All this algae from two weeks....and ive never had algae issues. And my NO2 and PO4 are undetectable. No idea where it came from

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c38/bilmaga/20170111_114638_zpsoumzi243.jpg (http://s24.photobucket.com/user/bilmaga/media/20170111_114638_zpsoumzi243.jpg.html)

[Myka]

You need to hire a pro tank sitter, like me! Except in your own city! People usually comment to me about how their tank looks better than when they left. :)

[Dearth]

Every time I clean my skimmer I pull 3-8 snails out of the skimmer and 2-3 out of the motor never ceases to amaze me.

[FishyFishy!]

Every time I clean my skimmer I pull 3-8 snails out of the skimmer and 2-3 out of the motor never ceases to amaze me.

Well im glad im not the only one! Lol

[DKoKoMan]

You need to hire a pro tank sitter, like me! Except in your own city! People usually comment to me about how their tank looks better than when they left. :)

I agree! Just need to find that someone :mrgreen: Although... I probably won't et time off of work for a while for the next 2 week vacation. But I definitely would like my tank to look better then when I left :lol:

[smokinreefer]

I am the only one who thinks it just cool that your snails are reproducing!?!

I've only had the mini hitchhiker types maintain a population, but then again I barely keep regular snails in my tanks.

[DKoKoMan]

I am the only one who thinks it just cool that your snails are reproducing!?!

I've only had the mini hitchhiker types maintain a population, but then again I barely keep regular snails in my tanks.

Would be cool in the refugium, not in the skimmer pump :lol: that could be a disaster to the pinwheel.