snakeblitz33
Well-Known Member
I clean a few aquariums around town and one of the aquariums that I clean - well, the power went out for a day and a half over the weekend and the business owner didn't call me to let me know anything about the fish tank. (problem number 1) I could have helped her with her fish, adding a battery pump or battery air pump or something to her water and taking care of the scrubber screen by submerging it in water until the power came back on. Well, problem 2 is the scrubber screen dried completely up and when the power came back on, water rushed over the screen and a lot of the nutrients from the algae was released back into the tank. Problem 3 is that the scrubber screen has to entirely be re-started and there is no filtration on the tank now for the next week (it's been a week. Problem 4: Since a lot of nutrients were released back into the tank, cyano is starting to form in the tank and is getting ahead of the scrubber screen growth. I know eventually that the scrubber will out-compete the cyano - but...
I'm thinking about using chemi-clean to get rid of the cyano in her tank, turning her lights off, letting her feed the fish every two days half of what she normally does and doing a large water change after the treatment to see if I can get the algae scrubber ahead of the cyano.
I'm just really disappointed that this happened. Instead of paying me what she owes me for my services, I let her start paying me for equipment to run her tank. I would really like to put a nice protein skimmer on her tank and heck, maybe even a phosban reactor. I know she needs new metal halide bulbs as well. I hate it when a customer wants a world class aquarium on a non-existant budget.
Anyways, this is half a rant, half asking for ideas on what you would do to the tank and tell her.
I'm thinking about using chemi-clean to get rid of the cyano in her tank, turning her lights off, letting her feed the fish every two days half of what she normally does and doing a large water change after the treatment to see if I can get the algae scrubber ahead of the cyano.
I'm just really disappointed that this happened. Instead of paying me what she owes me for my services, I let her start paying me for equipment to run her tank. I would really like to put a nice protein skimmer on her tank and heck, maybe even a phosban reactor. I know she needs new metal halide bulbs as well. I hate it when a customer wants a world class aquarium on a non-existant budget.
Anyways, this is half a rant, half asking for ideas on what you would do to the tank and tell her.
