Sneaky's 225 gallon!

[SneakyTortuga]

Ouch. I hope you have an able tank sitter. I assume so being gone that long. Sorry to hear.

He’s able but out of practice. Only positive is he works for me so even though he’s at work I can tell him to go take care of this for me

 

[NY_Caveman]

He’s able but out of practice. Only positive is he works for me so even though he’s at work I can tell him to go take care of this for me

HA!

 

[SneakyTortuga]

Quick run to Walmart to clean them out of all there distilled water.

40 gallon water change and by the grace of g** none of my corals are showing stress.... so they say.

I’m interested to see what this tank actually looks like when I do come back

@bubbaque you were right about the ugly phase of the frag tank

 

[bubbaque]

Yeah even if it’s all the same water and plumbed to a mature tank, if you add a new tank to it, it goes through an ugly phase still.

 

[SneakyTortuga]

Welp I lost one frag due to the ato dumping in the tank. I’m fine with that it’s better than having a tank full of dead corals. I thought with so much kalk being dumped in the tank I was for sure going to have some serious problems.

Here’s a picture from my maintenance guy

 

[tripdad]

Glad to hear that the damage was minor. Set up looks great.

 

[SneakyTortuga]

Glad to hear that the damage was minor. Set up looks great.

Yea I was freaking out. Thought for sure i was going to have a crash

 

[SneakyTortuga]

I come home for thanksgiving after being away for over a month. The tank actually looked great. Corals are growing and colors were good but Just my luck my my Túnze (less than a month old) decided to fail on me. The optical sensor didn’t read and my alarm was going off. Then I come to this

I only had 3-4 gallons of top off in the reservoir but once again the top off decided to just keep going. I don’t understand how I could have such bad luck with ato’s this past month.

I’m considering drilling my BEAUTIFUL sump to add a float valve to the top off line because at this point I really don’t know what else to do

 

[tripdad]

E-Shopps makes a clamp on adjustable float valve for that purpose. Maybe it can be adapted to your sump without drilling. Glad the animals were all good after the trip.

 

[SneakyTortuga]

E-Shopps makes a clamp on adjustable float valve for that purpose. Maybe it can be adapted to your sump without drilling. Glad the animals were all good after the trip.

I’ll definitely have to check that out

 

[SneakyTortuga]

Only view I get of my tank these days...

 

[bubbaque]

How much longer are you gone for?

 

[VSVP bet]

Only view I get of my tank these days...

separation anxiety

 

[SneakyTortuga]

How much longer are you gone for?

It’s looking like another month maybe 2 depending on how quickly they clean here. Here’s a few pictures of the neighborhoods we are cleaning up (what’s left of them)

separation anxiety

You don’t even know! My apex was telling me my return pump was using 0 watts today. I thought my pump was fried!!

 

[SneakyTortuga]

so i am officially home! i was away from the tank for 2+ months and i must say i was pleasantly surprised to see how well the tank truly did. i came back to tank that almost looked better than when i left. most of the corals are showing good growth and i only lost 2 frags in the 2 months. since ive been home ive picked up an additional ecotech xr15 for the frag tank because 1 was just not cutting it and i decided to treat myself for the holidays so i i picked up a few frags after seeing how well the tanks doing.

new additions:
asd mille
pc rainbow
pink floyd
hungs rainbow stag
sc orange passion
cc bahama mama
red devil nasuta
cc walt disney jr
jf fantasy island
and a new mariculture monitpora

ill post some pics up tomorrow

 

[bubbaque]

Pretty impressive to be gone so long and have everything do pretty well!

Looking forward to the pics.

 

[SneakyTortuga]

Playing around with a new lens. After coming back from the trip this by far is my favorite in the tank right now. Can’t wait for it to grow out

 

[bubbaque]

Very nice! What is that one?

 

[SneakyTortuga]

Very nice! What is that one?

It’s a no name piece from wwc a few months back

 

[SneakyTortuga]

One of the cool new additions

And a classic pc rainbow