AquaLifeStudio
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So, this just happened.
I am not a morning person, I nearly always have the option to sleep in and do just that.
It's about 8:50am and something tells me to get out of bed and to go downstairs. I walk past our mixed reef display tank which is already lit up in a nice 20,000 Kelvin Blue, all our fish are out and enjoying the morning light and I move past.
We've got nine - 25 gallon quarantine tanks in the garage, 5 of which have some fish being treated for clients, everything is fine there. Our 130 gallon store holding tank that has a show size Black Tang, show size Yellowfin Tang, Bellus Angel and full size Snowflake Eel, also fine. I check the locking thumb screw for our diverter valve on our saltwater mixing station, it's loose so I tighten it. Thankfully, the valve was closed after my buddy filled up the water tender in our service van. This is what I thought I'd be worried about so I was relieved and turned around and went back inside.
I walk back past the laundry room, where the dog either barfed or had diarrhea all over the floor, (I think to myself I'll do that later) and check the Display Tank's sump.
I've been dialing in a few things after some equipment changes so I want to see how things are going. Between 7 and 8:35am, the water level rises since the return pump essentially shuts down to minimal flow for a daily automatic water change of 8 gallons. It's at 8:35am that it begins to ramp back up to 100% so maximum flow is reached by 9am where the water level recedes to it's normal level.
I just upgraded to the V2 Controller for the Platinum Trigger sump which replaces the floats with optical sensors and I've been playing with their positioning along with the many available settings for getting the filter roll setup dialed in again. In short, I'm checking to see that the filter roll isn't being run through too quickly.
Anyways, we've had an Hybrid Goldrim/Achilles Tang that has been housed down here in the sump for the last year and I notice it's not swimming around like it usually is. There are a few fish in the Display that would try to kill it and I dont trust the fish in the holding tank either.
I dont panic, okay, I kind of panic. I immediately look in the bubble trap compartment of the rear of the sump which is somewhat out of view because its beneath the carbon reactor (pictured, spot circled in red).
I see a fin. It's the Hybrid Tang and it's basically almost beached on top of the sponge in just about an inch of water. It must have swam into the area while the water was high and felt stuck when the water started to decrease. I could see the gills moving quickly, the fish was panicking. I had just enough room to get my hand in there and without worrying about getting shanked by that scalpel I scooped that fish up and gently deposited it back on the right (correct) side of the weir.
I hate to think that under a normal morning of mine this fish would have ended up as jerky.
It likes to hide under the filter roll compartment, is still a bit spooked but it's alive.
Does anybody have any similar stories?
I am not a morning person, I nearly always have the option to sleep in and do just that.
It's about 8:50am and something tells me to get out of bed and to go downstairs. I walk past our mixed reef display tank which is already lit up in a nice 20,000 Kelvin Blue, all our fish are out and enjoying the morning light and I move past.
We've got nine - 25 gallon quarantine tanks in the garage, 5 of which have some fish being treated for clients, everything is fine there. Our 130 gallon store holding tank that has a show size Black Tang, show size Yellowfin Tang, Bellus Angel and full size Snowflake Eel, also fine. I check the locking thumb screw for our diverter valve on our saltwater mixing station, it's loose so I tighten it. Thankfully, the valve was closed after my buddy filled up the water tender in our service van. This is what I thought I'd be worried about so I was relieved and turned around and went back inside.
I walk back past the laundry room, where the dog either barfed or had diarrhea all over the floor, (I think to myself I'll do that later) and check the Display Tank's sump.
I've been dialing in a few things after some equipment changes so I want to see how things are going. Between 7 and 8:35am, the water level rises since the return pump essentially shuts down to minimal flow for a daily automatic water change of 8 gallons. It's at 8:35am that it begins to ramp back up to 100% so maximum flow is reached by 9am where the water level recedes to it's normal level.
I just upgraded to the V2 Controller for the Platinum Trigger sump which replaces the floats with optical sensors and I've been playing with their positioning along with the many available settings for getting the filter roll setup dialed in again. In short, I'm checking to see that the filter roll isn't being run through too quickly.
Anyways, we've had an Hybrid Goldrim/Achilles Tang that has been housed down here in the sump for the last year and I notice it's not swimming around like it usually is. There are a few fish in the Display that would try to kill it and I dont trust the fish in the holding tank either.
I dont panic, okay, I kind of panic. I immediately look in the bubble trap compartment of the rear of the sump which is somewhat out of view because its beneath the carbon reactor (pictured, spot circled in red).
I see a fin. It's the Hybrid Tang and it's basically almost beached on top of the sponge in just about an inch of water. It must have swam into the area while the water was high and felt stuck when the water started to decrease. I could see the gills moving quickly, the fish was panicking. I had just enough room to get my hand in there and without worrying about getting shanked by that scalpel I scooped that fish up and gently deposited it back on the right (correct) side of the weir.
I hate to think that under a normal morning of mine this fish would have ended up as jerky.
It likes to hide under the filter roll compartment, is still a bit spooked but it's alive.
Does anybody have any similar stories?
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