Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Before I launch into my rattle,
here's something interesting. The world would be so much more interesting if this occured frequently! Kinda like the fascination and joy of learning something new when we were kids.
Anyway, I'm back at fixing the tank full-time during this break. A long story short, the tank crashed when I was away in Scotland. For some odd reason (I think because the 150W metal halide burst), some of the lovely rose bubble-tip anemones died and fouled up the entire tank. Yx called me up and promptly threw in a load of activated carbon, thereby saving some of the livestock. The tank now looks horrid though, but most of the fish are still alive. Measured my nitrates today, and it was a HORRENDOUS 50 ppm!
Changed out 60 litres of water today, soaked the protein skimmer in vinegar to dissolve the layers of coralline algae on it, washed out the fluidised reactor and filled it with fresh Rowaphos, bought new carbon, hooked up the calcium reactor and took out a tonne of miscellanous useless stuff from the sump (UV steriliser etc).
OK, my calcium reactor leaked, but that's another long story. Going to fix that tomorrow I think.
Anyway, the dilemma. I'm going to have to part with this tank pretty soon I think, somewhere next year. The thing is, should I then be trying to do anything to it now? Or just sell of whatever junk I can sell, decomission it and live without a tank for 9 months or a year?
Serious questions.
Wenky
7:49 PM
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