45 Gallon Reef Diary From Setup To...?

[brittlestar]

Aww I'm really sorry to hear your bad news Ski, wish you and your family all the best.

 

[sianeds]

Take care Ski. I'm sure everything will be fine with your tank while your away

 

[Navarre]

Safe journey.
Hope everything stays safe and well for your return.

 

[Mr.September15]

Good luck with everything =)

 

[SkiFletch]

Thanks for all your support guys, I really appreaciate it. At least I get to see a lot of the fam I haven't seen in so long since we're so spread out. One of my house mates is taking care of the tank in my absence. He knows enough to feed them, top up and call me if it starts looking foul, but not much more. Hopefully weather doesnt keep me away tomorrow

 

[Lynden]

Good luck.

 

[SkiFletch]

Wow, so it never ends apparently. Got in a car fender-bender in the rental car on the way back from pittsburgh, thank God everyone's ok. Someone needs to teach the DOT in puttsburgh how to plow a road, but thats another matter. Get home, start my car up (which I had left at my parents' house) and the fan blower motor is siezed so I can't heat up the car. Drive mercifully only two miles home in the 10 farenheight weather with my head out the window (cause its fogged up and I can't de-fog it without the blower) to find that my lazy ass roommates didnt bother to shovel the driveway and went to bed. Shovel myself an entrance and I get inside and upstairs to find that Lieutenant Piws is still MIA, the elegance looks like its about to die, withered away from the point where it got stung a few weeks back, and my leather coral was upsideown buried in the sand. Got a 12 hour work day tomorrow to make up for the fact that my co-worker and good friend's father is in the hospital from a much more severe car accident than our little fender bender. He's in critical condition with a punctured lung, broken ribs with internal bleeding and a bunch of other minor and major limb fractures. Lookin for an end in sight but I don't see one yet. Gonna bring home a chisel tomorrow and try fragging the elegance if it still looks as bad as it does today. There's a pretty easy spot to frag it where I'll at least seperate the stung area from the rest of the colony. No clue if that's gonna work but I'm basically out of options. Anyway, I'm gonna go un-pack then parka-up and run a few miles to exhaust myself into falling asleep. Praying for good news tomorrow.

 

[Mr.September15]

Wow. That must suck ass. Sorry to hear all the bad news









just for furture reference, you can always go on msn and type your way to sleep...

Hope everything goes well for the rest of the week!

 

[Miss Wiggle]

Wow, so it never ends apparently. Got in a car fender-bender in the rental car on the way back from pittsburgh, thank God everyone's ok. Someone needs to teach the DOT in puttsburgh how to plow a road, but thats another matter. Get home, start my car up (which I had left at my parents' house) and the fan blower motor is siezed so I can't heat up the car. Drive mercifully only two miles home in the 10 farenheight weather with my head out the window (cause its fogged up and I can't de-fog it without the blower) to find that my lazy ass roommates didnt bother to shovel the driveway and went to bed. Shovel myself an entrance and I get inside and upstairs to find that Lieutenant Piws is still MIA, the elegance looks like its about to die, withered away from the point where it got stung a few weeks back, and my leather coral was upsideown buried in the sand. Got a 12 hour work day tomorrow to make up for the fact that my co-worker and good friend's father is in the hospital from a much more severe car accident than our little fender bender. He's in critical condition with a punctured lung, broken ribs with internal bleeding and a bunch of other minor and major limb fractures. Lookin for an end in sight but I don't see one yet. Gonna bring home a chisel tomorrow and try fragging the elegance if it still looks as bad as it does today. There's a pretty easy spot to frag it where I'll at least seperate the stung area from the rest of the colony. No clue if that's gonna work but I'm basically out of options. Anyway, I'm gonna go un-pack then parka-up and run a few miles to exhaust myself into falling asleep. Praying for good news tomorrow.

awwww man gutted for your ski, got my fingers well and truly crossed for you.

 

[Mr Miagi]

dude, hopefully all your bad luck will be over with now. As you say, a good nights sleep might do you well.

I really dont know whats going on with your Elegance corals. IME a sting shouldn't matter. When I started reefing, my Torch coral fell RIGHT on top of my elegance, and as you can imagine, and all out war began. I noticed the next morning, and my elegance came off second best. He had a huge sore on his flesh. He is still going strong (not so strong when my DEVIL hermits ripped the flesh of the skeleton when it closed overnight! .....Dont get me started), and healed nicely in a few weeks, longer than I expected.

IMO, with the good params I see these Elegance corals dying in, it either has to be a lack of something (at a real loss to what), or its in the method/location of collection between specimens found in Aus, the UK and US. Hope it pulls through.

 

[sianeds]

Oh Ski you're really not having a nice time are you.

Everything will work out fine in the end and something pretty good must be on the way to balance out all the crappy stuff

 

[maidenfan]

good grief ski your havin a bit of a bad run hope all works out mate

 

[brittlestar]

What a bad time you are having right now, poor you Ski. We are all thinknig of you and hope your work mate's Dad will be ok soon too. Best of luck with everything and hope your tank recovers soon.

 

[Redstratplayer1]

man that sucks......

Best of luck to you,your family,your friend and your tank.

 

[tmreynolds]

Bad luck always seems to come along in truck loads unfortunately!

Hopefully you got all the bad stuff out of the way in one go, and your luck will change.

Buy a lotto ticket, you're luck will swing the other way sooner rather than later