Dez
12-13-2009, 05:40 AM
Well, I left California today +18 degrees, and I'm back to -37 degrees here in Edmonton.
My tank went through a 5 hour power outage without anyone around and I came back to a living tank. The only loss was a milli frag which never was looking good from the day I got it, and a 1.5" maxima clam. Who knows why the clam passed on, but all 4 other clams still look good. I actually found a bunch of pyramid snails on one of my big clams the day before we left because the clam had pinched mantles for a few days. Now it looks great!
One of my pink pocci's fell into the hammer coral so there is about a dime sized dead portion on that coral.
Parameters are within line (7 dkh - Alk, 400ppm - calcium, Magnesium 1250). Not bad for 12 days gone.
Some corals have grown, some corals have changed colours - nice.
My closed loop pump was spitting tiny microbubbles due to a couple of small hermits in the intake, that was easily taken care of with a cleaning.
I'm quite pleased to come home to a living tank.
About 6 Christmas's ago we left for a week (had a well educated tank sitter/hobbyist take care of our tank) and came back to a completely rotten and crashed tank due to the tank sitter not checking sump level.
All in all, I'm quite pleased.
This time I had someone who knows NOTHING about fish/aquariums look after it. But it is someone I completely trust and he uses his head. He is also very mechanical.
I did a one hour education on my system and corals before I left. He even dosed all my zeo morning and evening. What a great friend. I had to teach him what polyp extension, let alone what a polyp was etc...
The power outage happened while my tanksitter was gone for a couple of days to Calgary and it was really cold! I heard there was a power outtage from my neighbour via facebook....but all was well!
Nice!
My tank went through a 5 hour power outage without anyone around and I came back to a living tank. The only loss was a milli frag which never was looking good from the day I got it, and a 1.5" maxima clam. Who knows why the clam passed on, but all 4 other clams still look good. I actually found a bunch of pyramid snails on one of my big clams the day before we left because the clam had pinched mantles for a few days. Now it looks great!
One of my pink pocci's fell into the hammer coral so there is about a dime sized dead portion on that coral.
Parameters are within line (7 dkh - Alk, 400ppm - calcium, Magnesium 1250). Not bad for 12 days gone.
Some corals have grown, some corals have changed colours - nice.
My closed loop pump was spitting tiny microbubbles due to a couple of small hermits in the intake, that was easily taken care of with a cleaning.
I'm quite pleased to come home to a living tank.
About 6 Christmas's ago we left for a week (had a well educated tank sitter/hobbyist take care of our tank) and came back to a completely rotten and crashed tank due to the tank sitter not checking sump level.
All in all, I'm quite pleased.
This time I had someone who knows NOTHING about fish/aquariums look after it. But it is someone I completely trust and he uses his head. He is also very mechanical.
I did a one hour education on my system and corals before I left. He even dosed all my zeo morning and evening. What a great friend. I had to teach him what polyp extension, let alone what a polyp was etc...
The power outage happened while my tanksitter was gone for a couple of days to Calgary and it was really cold! I heard there was a power outtage from my neighbour via facebook....but all was well!
Nice!