In The Previous Episode...
In the previous episode
I had started back in June 2014 with an agreement from the MRS that this would be a hobby that we both enjoyed. She had previously kept freshwater fish and I had never kept either. We chipped in for the best that we knew of with the understanding that the wife would be excited to spend money on saltwater like she previously did with fresh. We got as far as a good amount of softies and zoas but the wife decided she wanted to spend an insane amount of $$ on the extended honeymoon that we didn't have after our wedding. So in May this year we trundled off over to Europe leaving our mildly experienced niece at the helm so that we could ensure top ups and glass cleans.
Bad news was shortly delivered before we even arrived at our final destination. Here we are sitting in Heathrow when a text comes through from the niece saying that she just completely over-filled the sump and shorted out the Radions when trying to clean things up. I talked her through cleaning up and getting everything working again. Unfortunately what I didn't know was that she had not turned back on the return pump... For the next 5 weeks, whilst we were eating and drinking our way through Europe, the display tank temperature dived down to 15 degrees and no skimmer action was happening. I came back to an almost dead tank (no corals survived) with Victor the lawnmower blenny and a few cleanup guys to salvage in the QT.
We also had an epidemic of Dictyota algae and bubble algae so I was convinced we would be better to start again. I told the wife we are not giving up so easily. Since then my tastes have also changed to a bit of SPS as well...
I have a TJ on RTAW but cannot yet post links until i get to 10 posts on here so ill come back with a link shortly.
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I had started back in June 2014 with an agreement from the MRS that this would be a hobby that we both enjoyed. She had previously kept freshwater fish and I had never kept either. We chipped in for the best that we knew of with the understanding that the wife would be excited to spend money on saltwater like she previously did with fresh. We got as far as a good amount of softies and zoas but the wife decided she wanted to spend an insane amount of $$ on the extended honeymoon that we didn't have after our wedding. So in May this year we trundled off over to Europe leaving our mildly experienced niece at the helm so that we could ensure top ups and glass cleans.
Bad news was shortly delivered before we even arrived at our final destination. Here we are sitting in Heathrow when a text comes through from the niece saying that she just completely over-filled the sump and shorted out the Radions when trying to clean things up. I talked her through cleaning up and getting everything working again. Unfortunately what I didn't know was that she had not turned back on the return pump... For the next 5 weeks, whilst we were eating and drinking our way through Europe, the display tank temperature dived down to 15 degrees and no skimmer action was happening. I came back to an almost dead tank (no corals survived) with Victor the lawnmower blenny and a few cleanup guys to salvage in the QT.
We also had an epidemic of Dictyota algae and bubble algae so I was convinced we would be better to start again. I told the wife we are not giving up so easily. Since then my tastes have also changed to a bit of SPS as well...
I have a TJ on RTAW but cannot yet post links until i get to 10 posts on here so ill come back with a link shortly.
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