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08-20-2016, 12:59 PM
60 Gallon GLA aquarium with center overflow
20L custom refugium sump
2 Reef Radiance LEDs
2 Vortech EcoSmart MP40W powerheads
Tunze ATO
BRS 2-part dosing with pumps
Digital Aquatics Reefkeeper Lite controller
Custom cabinet I built
Why is this a "starting over" thread. Well I had a very nice mixed reef for 5+ years. Lots of SPS with beautiful growth, LPS on the sandbed, a derasa and squamosal clam, a pair of percula clowns, melanarus wrasse, leopard wrasse, Tomini Tang, Butterfly angel, yellow watchman with pistol shrimp....all very happy together. Then we traveled for 3 days during which a lightning storm blew out the power and when it came back on the ground fault popped. 2 days without heat or lights and I came home to death. Most of the LPS survived, surprisingly; but everything else was gone. It was a sad day.
Within the first week I had transferred all the survivors to a small rescue tank and began cleaning. Almost all the liverock was removed and bleached, all dead critters pulled, lots of water changes with the protein skimmer working overtime.
By the end of the first week all water parameters were back to normal and I transferred the LPS back.
By the end of the second week I added a sea hare, a handful of hermits, a couple turbo snails, a pair of percula clowns and an RBTA.
By the end of the third week I added a sea cucumber, an emperor shrimp and 1000 copepods.
Thanks to Tropicorium and Ypsilanti Fish Doctors for the livestock to get back up and running.
20L custom refugium sump
2 Reef Radiance LEDs
2 Vortech EcoSmart MP40W powerheads
Tunze ATO
BRS 2-part dosing with pumps
Digital Aquatics Reefkeeper Lite controller
Custom cabinet I built
Why is this a "starting over" thread. Well I had a very nice mixed reef for 5+ years. Lots of SPS with beautiful growth, LPS on the sandbed, a derasa and squamosal clam, a pair of percula clowns, melanarus wrasse, leopard wrasse, Tomini Tang, Butterfly angel, yellow watchman with pistol shrimp....all very happy together. Then we traveled for 3 days during which a lightning storm blew out the power and when it came back on the ground fault popped. 2 days without heat or lights and I came home to death. Most of the LPS survived, surprisingly; but everything else was gone. It was a sad day.
Within the first week I had transferred all the survivors to a small rescue tank and began cleaning. Almost all the liverock was removed and bleached, all dead critters pulled, lots of water changes with the protein skimmer working overtime.
By the end of the first week all water parameters were back to normal and I transferred the LPS back.
By the end of the second week I added a sea hare, a handful of hermits, a couple turbo snails, a pair of percula clowns and an RBTA.
By the end of the third week I added a sea cucumber, an emperor shrimp and 1000 copepods.
Thanks to Tropicorium and Ypsilanti Fish Doctors for the livestock to get back up and running.