Spark's Desk Cube
- Thread starter innerspark
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So I took Friday off work and went to Vegas with the wife over the weekend. Before I left I put a fan on the tank to help with the high temps this past weekend and did my normal water changes and made sure the tank was fully operational. When I got back to the office yesterday morning I took one look at the tank and went into emergency mode. ATO bucket was full but the back of the tank was dry and about 1/4 of the water in the display section was gone and absolutely no water movement. Tapped on my float valve for the ato and it kicked on and started filling the tank back up. Needless to say I lost just about everything but a snail and the clown fish. Hopping my urchin pulls through but its not looking good and I may just pull it out. As far as my corals, I had pulled out my 2 nice pieces before the trip and moved them to the tank at home so they where good. My mini colony in the photo in my previous post is gone and the garf bonsai is gone. Anyways i'll be running it without a ton of stuff in it tell at least next month as I will be moving desk areas soon but it sucks to see everything go.
So this tank has been a rollercoaster ride since I set it up. I have had issues with my ATO over filling the tank, lights failing, fish carpet surfing, and algae blooms. Everything seems to be getting back in check now after spending the last month working with it. I did have a hiccup Thanksgiving weekend with leaving the lights on for the whole weekend (oops) and now I am fighting hair algae again. But the coral's seem fine and I am about to actually move my nem back into the tank (been sitting in my 50 at home to color back up and be happy).
Update: This is the only tank I still have set up at the moment. 
Good news though is it got some much needed TLC this past week as I lost my one and only clown fish that was still kicking. It's so hard to keep up with a little tank in the office. Anyways, I gutted the whole tank. It's got new water, new sand, new rock's new rockscape, a skimmer finaly and a media reactor. Maybe this time around I can keep up with the maitnence now that I have some help. We are 3 days into the cycle (dont think it will be long as I did add some filter media that was in it before) and I am getting ready to start filling it soon. Here are some photos of the current rockscape.
Good news though is it got some much needed TLC this past week as I lost my one and only clown fish that was still kicking. It's so hard to keep up with a little tank in the office. Anyways, I gutted the whole tank. It's got new water, new sand, new rock's new rockscape, a skimmer finaly and a media reactor. Maybe this time around I can keep up with the maitnence now that I have some help. We are 3 days into the cycle (dont think it will be long as I did add some filter media that was in it before) and I am getting ready to start filling it soon. Here are some photos of the current rockscape.
