asm1134
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Warning kind of long, but I need HELP PLEASE!
I went out of town for 2 weeks and had a fellow co-worker watch my tank while I was gone. I gave him detailed instrustions on what he had to do and how important it was that he had to check on everything daily. Mainly all he had to do was feed the fish and fill the sump and check salt levels. I also gave him my cell phone # in case he had any questions, but he never called.
When I got home my tank looked like a desert! When I left for the war I left my wife with less instructions and she did an amazing job for 2 1/2 months and she absolutely had no idea what she was doing. Now in 2 weeks I lost so much. I was so upset I just wanted to give up and take everything to the LFS and QUIT this hobby. I cant. I love my tank too much to give it up cause some idiot was to lazy. I lost a coral beauty, a purple psuedochromy, a mandrin and several corals and a few snails. total about $500 worth of tank creatures and countless months of work. I also have before and after pics.
I checked all perameters, ammonia 0 (surprizingly) nitrate 12.5 nitrite 0, ph 8.0 and salt 1.016. I immediately started making new salt water to slowly bring the salt level back up, I also ran some fresh carbon. I got home around 1:30am after a 9 hr drive home and didnt go to sleep till 8am. The worst part about it was that I wasnt even tired because I was so upset.
The things that made it through all this were 2 false percs, a bicolor blenny, some button polyps, and the bubble tip anemones that had just split before I left. I tested the water today and everything seems stable. The button polyps are more open and the anemones are more open. Salt is sitting at 1.023 The glass is covered in green and brown algea that grows super fast no matter how much I clean the glass. I took all the dead matter out that I could.
I think I should take everything and put it in a trash can and fill it with the tank water, put the lights over it and try to clean out the tank and try to mix the top layer of sand. Normally I wouldnt do this, but what happen is that he got really lazy and after the 3rd day he filled the sump as much as it could hold. Well the power went out for about 2 hrs and the sump over flowed and the carpet got soaked. When he finally came back over he niticed that the sump was really low so he filled it again with fresh ro/di water (no salt) and I guess the power went out agian the following day. And everything happend again. Im surprized anything make it. He is willing to give me $500 back, but that still doesnt make up for what I lost, or all the work that this is causing me, and the carpet that I have to replace.
Any suggestions would be really helpful. Thanx in advance
I went out of town for 2 weeks and had a fellow co-worker watch my tank while I was gone. I gave him detailed instrustions on what he had to do and how important it was that he had to check on everything daily. Mainly all he had to do was feed the fish and fill the sump and check salt levels. I also gave him my cell phone # in case he had any questions, but he never called.
When I got home my tank looked like a desert! When I left for the war I left my wife with less instructions and she did an amazing job for 2 1/2 months and she absolutely had no idea what she was doing. Now in 2 weeks I lost so much. I was so upset I just wanted to give up and take everything to the LFS and QUIT this hobby. I cant. I love my tank too much to give it up cause some idiot was to lazy. I lost a coral beauty, a purple psuedochromy, a mandrin and several corals and a few snails. total about $500 worth of tank creatures and countless months of work. I also have before and after pics.
I checked all perameters, ammonia 0 (surprizingly) nitrate 12.5 nitrite 0, ph 8.0 and salt 1.016. I immediately started making new salt water to slowly bring the salt level back up, I also ran some fresh carbon. I got home around 1:30am after a 9 hr drive home and didnt go to sleep till 8am. The worst part about it was that I wasnt even tired because I was so upset.
The things that made it through all this were 2 false percs, a bicolor blenny, some button polyps, and the bubble tip anemones that had just split before I left. I tested the water today and everything seems stable. The button polyps are more open and the anemones are more open. Salt is sitting at 1.023 The glass is covered in green and brown algea that grows super fast no matter how much I clean the glass. I took all the dead matter out that I could.
I think I should take everything and put it in a trash can and fill it with the tank water, put the lights over it and try to clean out the tank and try to mix the top layer of sand. Normally I wouldnt do this, but what happen is that he got really lazy and after the 3rd day he filled the sump as much as it could hold. Well the power went out for about 2 hrs and the sump over flowed and the carpet got soaked. When he finally came back over he niticed that the sump was really low so he filled it again with fresh ro/di water (no salt) and I guess the power went out agian the following day. And everything happend again. Im surprized anything make it. He is willing to give me $500 back, but that still doesnt make up for what I lost, or all the work that this is causing me, and the carpet that I have to replace.
Any suggestions would be really helpful. Thanx in advance
