lkgrenegade22
Member
I have learned so much in this hobby over the last 4 months and I have finally come to the conclusion that something is always going to happen. I admittedly came on here after buying way too many fish at the beginning (and was bashed for it) but corrected my wrong doing the best I could and went from there. I even gave fish away to better homes than I could give them. Then I learned my skimmer was not top notch so I researched and bought 2 of the best HOB skimmers out there. I've maintained pristine water conditions for my FOWLR tank and did scheduled water changes as needed. I also had the bad ick outbreak at the beginning due to not QT a tang and did a very successful hyposalinity treatment and made it through that without any losses. I finally got my 72 back up and running for the last month and everything has been great. UNTIL tonight...my brother stopped by to check on the fish and calls me at work to tell me the news. My HUGE Condy anemone which I have had since the beginning and has tripled in size decided to take a stroll and end up getting shredded by my modded maxi jet. The anemone has not moved in the 3 months he was there and I have not changed anything lately so I don't know why. I spot fed him also. Now before I get the you should have used a prefilter let me inform you that I had one! I had made a custom one from some filter media I had and it has been on the maxi jet for over a month. Apparently when it climbed onto the powerhead the prefilter somehow came apart (I had glued a flat piece together to make a circle over the mod kit) and it sucked him in. Tank was cloudy and he told me he saw 2 confirmed dead fish. I got him to add 2 huge bags of carbon and dose the tank with amquel. I'm stuck at work and can't get home until around 8am. I'm just hoping for the best. Sorry for the rant, but I had to vent.