Does anyone else work away from their tank?

[Sharkattackmack]

To start this off I am a Boilermaker/welder in Alberta, we work long hours normally away from our homes and family for extended periods of time. I just got home for being gone for 14 days and once again my wife has done an amazing job with the tank. I'm not sure what she does but whenever I leave I come back to large amounts of growth and lots of color pop.

Here are some things about our tank:

Livestock- two clowns, six line wrasse, blue eye Cole tang(about to be moved to a larger tank and replaced with a tomini), a yellow head goby paired with a pistol shrimp, two neon gobies.

Clean up crew consists of snails, hermits.

We use reef crystals and try to keep the parameters on the bucket.

We dose acropower, all for reef and phosphorus. Spot feeding the corals once a week with a mix of reef roids and reef casa coral curry.

Tank is mixed reef but I love my sticks. Here are some photos.

 

[KrisReef]

Your tank is beautiful.
You are lucky to have a wife who can keep the tank running while you are away.
If I knew you better, I would write something along the lines that I am looking forward to you going away for another couple of weeks so I can come help out with the tank, and stuff.

But, the truth is, you are a lucky man to have a great tank and wife n your home. I sincerely wish you a long and happy life together without any nonesense, other than mine here to distract you. Your tank it fantastic! Im jealous. Mines been killing me lately and its likely punishment for my horrible jokes and wicked humor. God have mercy. :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing: :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes::smiling-face-with-sunglasses:

That old saw about absence making the heart grow fonder, I have also had a few vacations that took me away from my tank when it was growing properly and it's easier to see the growth when you can't watch it for a week or two.

 

[Sharkattackmack]

Your tank is beautiful.
You are lucky to have a wife who can keep the tank running while you are away.
If I knew you better, I would write something along the lines that I am looking forward to you going away for another couple of weeks so I can come help out with the tank, and stuff.

But, the truth is, you are a lucky man to have a great tank and wife n your home. I sincerely wish you a long and happy life together without any nonesense, other than mine here to distract you. Your tank it fantastic! Im jealous. Mines been killing me lately and its likely punishment for my horrible jokes and wicked humor. God have mercy. :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing: :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes::smiling-face-with-sunglasses:

That old saw about absence making the heart grow fonder, I have also had a few vacations that took me away from my tank when it was growing properly and it's easier to see the growth when you can't watch it for a week or two.

Thank you! We've gone through some struggles with the tank but it's bounced right back to it's happy self. Just before Christmas everything browned out and I lost a few acros. I ended up doing three very large water changes over the course of the week to get the tank back in check.


Right now we're battling low nutrients. That's why we're dosing the phosphorus and today I'll be picking up some nitrates to dose. I'd like to just add another fish but I don't want to mess with the tank dynamic too much. I never thought I'd have this problem as I feel like I feed a lot but the growth of the corals must have used them up.

Those pictures last night were heavily blued due to my lights ramping down so I'll take some more this afternoon when they're whiter.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

To start this off I am a Boilermaker/welder in Alberta, we work long hours normally away from our homes and family for extended periods of time. I just got home for being gone for 14 days and once again my wife has done an amazing job with the tank. I'm not sure what she does but whenever I leave I come back to large amounts of growth and lots of color pop.

Here are some things about our tank:

Livestock- two clowns, six line wrasse, blue eye Cole tang(about to be moved to a larger tank and replaced with a tomini), a yellow head goby paired with a pistol shrimp, two neon gobies.

Clean up crew consists of snails, hermits.

We use reef crystals and try to keep the parameters on the bucket.

We dose acropower, all for reef and phosphorus. Spot feeding the corals once a week with a mix of reef roids and reef casa coral curry.

Tank is mixed reef but I love my sticks. Here are some photos.

Your corals do truly look great! I travel a good bit for work and vacation, so I have to leave my tank on auto pilot from time to time.

 

[Sharkattackmack]

Some less windexy photos

 

[Uncle99]

Stunning!
Very happy sticks….

 

[Freenow54]

To start this off I am a Boilermaker/welder in Alberta, we work long hours normally away from our homes and family for extended periods of time. I just got home for being gone for 14 days and once again my wife has done an amazing job with the tank. I'm not sure what she does but whenever I leave I come back to large amounts of growth and lots of color pop.

Here are some things about our tank:

Livestock- two clowns, six line wrasse, blue eye Cole tang(about to be moved to a larger tank and replaced with a tomini), a yellow head goby paired with a pistol shrimp, two neon gobies.

Clean up crew consists of snails, hermits.

We use reef crystals and try to keep the parameters on the bucket.

We dose acropower, all for reef and phosphorus. Spot feeding the corals once a week with a mix of reef roids and reef casa coral curry.

Tank is mixed reef but I love my sticks. Here are some photos.

Love Oil And Gas lol. I used too but am a pipefitter retired in Ontario. Wait until you are lots of fun. Your wife is doing a bang up job

 

[RamsReef]

Hey brother, Electrician in the patch here, ramsreef is all remote. Most help I get is wife / kids might clean the glass for me.

I have had to go home a couple times for emergencies, it is hard even with the full thing automated.

 

[rhitee93]

Nice tank!

I too work away from my tank. All of about 8' away from it I get panicky when I am on vacation, so I'm impressed with what you've done.

 

[Sharkattackmack]

Haven't signed in for awhile. Work has been busy but I got lucky enough to go home for a weekend to see the wife,dogs and the tank.

Drove 2 hours to trade a bounce mushrooms for a piece of homewrecker. I won't be home for another few weeks so I did some fragging. Hoping to pick up a cheap evo 13.5 when I get home as a frag tank. Wife tells me it's been hard to keep the alk up with all the corals. I did a large water change when I was home and she's going to do another this weekend to help get us back up around 7.5-8.

Also struggling to keep my nutrients up so we have been dosing both nitrates and phosphates. We lost our pistol goby a week ago because his "friend" kept renovating their lair and he wasn't able to come out to feed.

 

[Sharkattackmack]

Also forgot I picked this light up. Couldn't resist the deal of $40 for a Bluetooth powered light with this much coverage. I don't plan on replacing the radion's but I'd like something for my frag tank. Not sure about the power it puts out or even the name of it but I'll rent a par meter now that we have a new reef store opening up on town. Here are some photos of it. Gives pretty close to same colors as my current lights.

 

[Miami Reef]

Is this orange passion?

Tank looks fantastic!

 

[Sharkattackmack]

Is this orange passion?

Tank looks fantastic!

Yes it is.

 

[Sharkattackmack]

Haven't posted here in awhile but I figured this would be a good time for an update. I'll be leaving this weekend for 4-6 weeks worth of work. I've been back for about a month and started to clear some corals out of tank as I was having trouble keeping up with the alk.

My LFS takes corals in for $10 a frag. I dont bring any of my nice stuff there but I chopped up my green slimer, blue digi, Forest fire digi, tri color validia and a random green acro I have. I'm at the point now where I'll have to start cutting some of the nicer corals and start pruning them to grow in the direction I like.

As for new occupants, my six line died so I replaced it with a yellow corris wrasse. Very happy with the addition. I traded a Sunkist mushroom for a small frag of homewrecker and RR wildfire.

Photos were taken at two different times/spectrum. I think giving the tank both high whites in the morning then going to a more blue spectrum in the afternoon. Even in with morning when my lights are off and the tank gets sunlight the corals still.keep their colors.

Frags we're for my buddy. He gave me a bunch of across when his tank was having trouble so I was giving him some of mine to give him some different colors in the tank.

 

[mfinn]

As a union Heat and Frost Insulator I spent many months away from my tank working out on the road. Sometimes as much as 6 months without coming home. I was always surprised at how well my wife and daughter were able to deal with the routine maintenance and the emergencies that came up. Early on I made up a list of things that needed to be done and a list of possible fixes to those emergencies.
They did a great job over a 30 year period of working on the road.

 

[Sharkattackmack]

As a union Heat and Frost Insulator I spent many months away from my tank working out on the road. Sometimes as much as 6 months without coming home. I was always surprised at how well my wife and daughter were able to deal with the routine maintenance and the emergencies that came up. Early on I made up a list of things that needed to be done and a list of possible fixes to those emergencies.
They did a great job over a 30 year period of working on the road.

We are both very lucky to have someone to take care of the tank for us. I just finished doing a fair bit of maintenance. Cleaned my mixing container (reef crystals mixes pretty dirty), cleaned both my power heads and my return pump. I also did a 40-50% water change yesterday.

 

[Reginald Reefer III]

I travel for 4-5 days at a time for work pretty frequently, but my wife has 0 idea what is going on with the tank. I have automated the majority of it with an APEX, and the only thing my wife and teenage sons do is manually dose RMS elements daily with the dosing amount printed onto the bottles.

 

[maroun.c]

Amazing tank you got there and very lucky to have a supporting wife.
I frequently travel and even relocated for 3 years and used to come home only for few days every few weeks .... needless to say a supporting wife goes a long way.

 

[BryanM]

To start this off I am a Boilermaker/welder in Alberta, we work long hours normally away from our homes and family for extended periods of time. I just got home for being gone for 14 days and once again my wife has done an amazing job with the tank. I'm not sure what she does but whenever I leave I come back to large amounts of growth and lots of color pop.

Here are some things about our tank:

Livestock- two clowns, six line wrasse, blue eye Cole tang(about to be moved to a larger tank and replaced with a tomini), a yellow head goby paired with a pistol shrimp, two neon gobies.

Clean up crew consists of snails, hermits.

We use reef crystals and try to keep the parameters on the bucket.

We dose acropower, all for reef and phosphorus. Spot feeding the corals once a week with a mix of reef roids and reef casa coral curry.

Tank is mixed reef but I love my sticks. Here are some photos.

Tank looks awesome, kudos to the wife and you :)

 

[Sharkattackmack]

I travel for 4-5 days at a time for work pretty frequently, but my wife has 0 idea what is going on with the tank. I have automated the majority of it with an APEX, and the only thing my wife and teenage sons do is manually dose RMS elements daily with the dosing amount printed onto the bottles.

I never had good luck with the apex. Granted the two I bought were used classics but I couldn't ever get them to connect properly. Now that they're owned by Aperture and everything they make is overpriced I don't think I'll ever purchase one.