tx reef
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I never thought I would be posting this, but it is entirely my fault.
During the 3 weeks before Thanksgiving, I was at work until 9:00pm every night and even was working on the weekends. Thanksgiving night, I get a bad pain in my lower right abdomen and get my appendix taken out the next day.
During all of this time no water changes have been done on my tank, which wouldn't have been a problem, except that my skimmer overflowed. I had the top of the skimmer cup just sitting on top, not snapped on. So, all of the skimmate (an entire skimmer cup full from an ETSS Reef Devil) went into my tank at some point and I didn't notice it until Thursday night.
Also, my wife is not the best at adding the proper amount of alk. buffer to the auto top off bucket, so my alk. was slightly low for weeks.
I am just now able to get around good since the appendectomy, and I had some water made up for a change, but it was too late.
As of Friday morning, I had lost almost every coral in my tank. I still have some zoos, S. Bennet Acro, a bright lime green acro, and a purple tipped acro.
Everything else was lost to RTN. I lost a superman monti, atlantis pink polyped cap, pokerstar monti, leng sy monti cap, a huge tabling acro, and three other very large acro colonies.
I can't even stand to look at my tank right now....but after Christmas when I can afford it, I will buy a frag pack or hopefully get a good deal on some large colonies and pretty much start over.
At least I didn't lose everything........
During the 3 weeks before Thanksgiving, I was at work until 9:00pm every night and even was working on the weekends. Thanksgiving night, I get a bad pain in my lower right abdomen and get my appendix taken out the next day.
During all of this time no water changes have been done on my tank, which wouldn't have been a problem, except that my skimmer overflowed. I had the top of the skimmer cup just sitting on top, not snapped on. So, all of the skimmate (an entire skimmer cup full from an ETSS Reef Devil) went into my tank at some point and I didn't notice it until Thursday night.
Also, my wife is not the best at adding the proper amount of alk. buffer to the auto top off bucket, so my alk. was slightly low for weeks.
I am just now able to get around good since the appendectomy, and I had some water made up for a change, but it was too late.
As of Friday morning, I had lost almost every coral in my tank. I still have some zoos, S. Bennet Acro, a bright lime green acro, and a purple tipped acro.
Everything else was lost to RTN. I lost a superman monti, atlantis pink polyped cap, pokerstar monti, leng sy monti cap, a huge tabling acro, and three other very large acro colonies.
I can't even stand to look at my tank right now....but after Christmas when I can afford it, I will buy a frag pack or hopefully get a good deal on some large colonies and pretty much start over.
At least I didn't lose everything........
