Hello,
I had the opportunity to take a month long vacation and I had a person from the LFS maintain the tank while I was gone. When I left, my 8 gallon nano reef was pristine and the parameters were fantastic and it had lots of corals that were healthy and growing like crazy. When I got back, I had lost my beautiful dragons breath macro algae and the Ora blue macro algae, seven zoo colonies including electric oompa loompa, Rastas and fruit loops. The other corals were montipora, birds nest, and clove polyps.
My house sitter claimed that he showed up twice in the first week and nothing for next three weeks. The hired fish guy kept on canceling and not rescheduling the water changes. The parameters were so bad upon my arrival that I am surprised my only damsel survived.
Here is the story, I cannot make this up. My house sitter decided to try to do a water change he learned from a YouTube video and did not use r/o water, and added so many chemicals that the parameters have killed the corals and they were not removed from the tank. He got nervous so he turned off the power to the tank and the lights last week. He lit Incense near the tank to cover up the smell and never thought to call the fish store nor the LFS guy who was flaky. It is going to take another water change for me to feel confident that the tank is back and stable again. I took my time with the tank and it has been three weeks since this discovery and recovery.
If anyone has some frags for sale, please let me know. i am located in Boulder and will respond to all pm's. Thank you!
Yours,
Ryan
I had the opportunity to take a month long vacation and I had a person from the LFS maintain the tank while I was gone. When I left, my 8 gallon nano reef was pristine and the parameters were fantastic and it had lots of corals that were healthy and growing like crazy. When I got back, I had lost my beautiful dragons breath macro algae and the Ora blue macro algae, seven zoo colonies including electric oompa loompa, Rastas and fruit loops. The other corals were montipora, birds nest, and clove polyps.
My house sitter claimed that he showed up twice in the first week and nothing for next three weeks. The hired fish guy kept on canceling and not rescheduling the water changes. The parameters were so bad upon my arrival that I am surprised my only damsel survived.
Here is the story, I cannot make this up. My house sitter decided to try to do a water change he learned from a YouTube video and did not use r/o water, and added so many chemicals that the parameters have killed the corals and they were not removed from the tank. He got nervous so he turned off the power to the tank and the lights last week. He lit Incense near the tank to cover up the smell and never thought to call the fish store nor the LFS guy who was flaky. It is going to take another water change for me to feel confident that the tank is back and stable again. I took my time with the tank and it has been three weeks since this discovery and recovery.
If anyone has some frags for sale, please let me know. i am located in Boulder and will respond to all pm's. Thank you!
Yours,
Ryan
