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First of all - no idea how i missed this thread.
Second of all that's awful to hear bob - I'm also glad you are safe and uninjured by going to help.
Did the neighbor leave a generator on to power the fridge in the kitchen while they were out?
I can't make that time...i got stuck with being the point person for work until 9pm every day this week. Next week I took off (hence the extra load). When you're ready to move it back in - i guess give me a holler!
transformer blew in my town and parts of it lost power...thankfully we weren't included. I've been without clean water too for the past 48 hrs. I still see lines for gasoline...speaking of which odd number, gotta go out and get some.
no need to move the tank. The smell is gone after two 45~50 gallon of water changes. Thanks for the offer. Right now the big next step waiting for the tank to stabilize and then figuring out how to re-stock.
Of course during this debacle you'd hope that the pain in the rear asterina stars...
i dosed some Erase CL to bond the ammonia. I had picked that up a long time ago in anticipation of helping with the clownfish fry tank. The fish are much more out and about and the hammers are slowly opening up their polyps again. Scoly still is oblivious to it all (thank goodness), but the...
olivier - let me know when and i will do my best to come over and help.
trust me in this debacle, being there for the event may not have helped. It was just utter chaos and frustration. I lost almost all my corals but was able to save all but one fish (achilles...).
thanks everyone. I just did another 50 gallon water change between conference calls. I was at the office all last week while the building was on generator power so I figured I could take a day to work from home today.
I am pretty sure I siphoned out bits of snails and anemone. Tossed out...
Mark - good to hear you are ok. So sorry about the house. Is FEMA at least helping with alternate housing?
I'm listening to the news say that you are supposed to keep the generator '20 feet' from the house. If I did that it would be that much closer for some jerk to load into his/her car...
great idea...the SH are crazy about sitting in front of the pump for flow. They will even grasp the floss and then thrust their face into the pump. The idea that you need low flow is some kind of internet rumor. They do need flow slowed down when they eat, but otherwise they like living in the...
I can finally see the back of the tank through the cloudiness. The stink is still there and the skimmer is pulling out indescribable stink.
I had to remove the entire rock the nem was on - at least what was left of the nem. Little fluorescent red bits of what were the tentacles were floating...
This is about 12 hrs after power restored. It's a lot clearer and I think I see the anemone in the back trying to reinflate. I'm not putting this on photobucket as I have no desire to look at decaying coral blown up. I took out a dinner sized plate of grape cap (luckily the stuff grows...
Hurricane Sandy left her mark.
Power was just restored in my home after 5 cold and long nights. Right now the entire mid-section of the tank is a sea of white. The smell is pretty bad.
The survivors that I can see:
pearly jawfish
a single red fire shrimp
a maxima clam (reef odyssey)
a...
power finally came back...making a big batch of water to change out...the 120 is a cloudy mess. Put a ton of carbon in to try and help...the water is stinky.