Every Reefers Worst Nightmare
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, 04-17-2011 at 05:11 PM (1179 Views)
This has been a very tough week.... My wife and I recently bought a second house, and decided to rent our old house to my wife's brother and his wife. I didn't want to move my 30g reef over to the new house till I had my new 75g up and cycled. My intent was to move everything over slowly and minimize the risk of losing any livestock. I have been going over to the old place to do water changes and maintenance about once or twice a week. Well i received a text the other day saying my sister in law thought my long tentacle anemone was dead because it looked funny and had been lying over on its side for a few days. I go over there to find that the water is practically opaque and smells horrible. The anemone was dissolved and all my coral had died..... Talk about devastation. Its only a small 30g tank with a 20g sump but i have had it up and running in my bedroom for over 2 years. I lost a large kenya tree that had been dropping new babies all over the tank, purple, green, and lava mushrooms,red button polyps, a blasto, a pavona frag i bought at 1" that was about triple the size, an acan i bought as a single head that grew to about the size of a softball with ~30 mouths, and a duncans i bought as a single head that had ~25 mouths. I also lost my only fish in the tank a flametail blenny. I don't think i have ever been so depressed. I am killing myself for not moving the tank over sooner, but i really thought i was doing the safe thing by setting up the new tank first. Live and learn, never leave a tank with people who don't reef. It was a very sad goodbye to a tank i poured alot of blood, sweat, and tears into.... Now its back to square one.