It’s been sometime since I’ve been on the reef forums.. I’ve had my tank up for 12 years now and over the last 6 to 7 of those years.. I hate to admit it but I’ve neglected my tanks. It wasn’t always like that for me.. starting out I enjoyed every chance I got to spend, watching it and catering to its every need.. I had gorgeous colonies of zoanthids in an array of colors.. and a mixed reef to match.. tanks that went from being beautiful to baron wastelands.. so in a nutshell.. I had three tanks setup along a wall in my house.. a 110g, a 75g and a 60 g.. all plumbed in together and running off the same sump system.. everything ran perfectly for a few years and I’m sure as your reading this by now your thinking “oh this guy definitely did something dumb”.. but you’d be wrong as I truthfully had no part in what would take place next.. so I was living in a home with a couple room mates and one day I got home from work seen one of the roomies in the driveway watching as one of his friends replaced his brakes.. our exchange was quick and I went inside for a shower.. came out.. seen the guy that had been working on the car.. hands full of grease.. in my main tank!!! I flipped out and yelled “ what are you thinking” (amongst other things) he responded..” I was trying to see if the clownfish would go hide in the anemone or if that was a lie.....” Well.. with the car grease/brake grease.. within hours I started watching Coral’s dying off.. and there wasn’t enough crazy water things I could do at that time so I watched my hard work wither away.. I became bitter and extremely depressed... took down the tanks but my 110 only because, somehow miraculously 12 fish survived and a carpet anemone.. oh and a pistol shrimp which I thought was nuts.. for the last couple years the fish have thrived with no water changes.. just merely adding top off.. two weeks ago I finally got out of my depression from what had happened.. and now I’ve decided to finish a project reef build I was working on.. I’ll post a build thread on that here within the next few days.. the 110 is down and the live stock has since been moved into a 150 gallon tub that I’ve turned into a lagoon for the time being.. it sucks that I took so long to bounce back.. but this time.. things will be way different.. I look forward to interacting with you all more! Thanks for reading! Stay tuned! -Tan
