Oh my freaking gosh.
Life sucks.
On January 12th
I sprained my ankle really really bad, my doctor said I was about 20lbs of pressure away from a break.
I thought I could skateboard as well as I could when I was 15....
Note to self if you're 30 years old stay out of the skate park.
Slipped on a quarter pipe, and came crashing down on my left ankle.... just remember the sound of the pop and warm nausea feeling makes me tremble....
I was basically bed-ridden with it propped up for 5 weeks.
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My wife also 7 months pregnant, unfortunately wasn't about to lift around any 40Lb water jugs. Nor did I want her to.
My doser went on the fritz and stopped working....
And my tank went to all hell.
After the 3rd week I could finally walk with crutches.... but everything just started going to hell, STN started setting in on my LPS and SPS. I was having my wife feed frozen every 3 days so I wouldn't over load the system with nutrients, but that ended up being just as bad.
No water changes, just ATO going, I lost my BTA, Carpet Nem, Hammer, all my SPS, bar my birds nest and Stylo, my Mystery wrasse jumped ship again.... and I didn't catch him this time.
And then I just got the Reef Blues..... I kind of let things slide even more and just got sadder and sadder.....
6 weeks later I had to MOVE the tank! OMG. This is really when I almost just threw the towel in, but my Wife actually said she would be super sad if I did.
Had to move it to make room for my baby coming in 5 weeks
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So , ankle still hurting, I emptied it bar 10G, took all the rock out, put it in some buckets with salt, and shoved the tank on stand 2 feet at a time out the room and across a hallway.
Couldn't handle a re-scape so just threw the rocks back in any old way.
Had to let my sandbed bomb take it's course, I wasn't willing or really able to take the hours/days to rinse it take it out and rinse it all. Lost a Favia and Acans due to the nutrient spikes.
Found my blenny in the back chamber and added him back to the DT, He'd been living there for a couple months I guess. Unfortunately 2 days later he was dead in the powerhead.... not sure if he died first or commited suicide.... but that was more insult to injury.
Did about 30G of water changes over 4 days, and let things start to stabilize out again.
Really wasn't sure what to do, but last weekend bit the bullet and just got on with it.
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Last weekend - 2 months since sprain- I re-scaped it and did 20G of water changes. Finally got all my params back in check, and went to make my first purchase in what felt like forever. Nice little Urchin
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That got me re pumped and enthused and away we went.
Ankles almost completely better now, lifting anything over 80Lbs, or going into weird positions, still gives pain, but I'm basically good to go again.
So here's where we stand now:
Picked up 8 new frags and away we go back to getting things running.
