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I just have to ask where you found this guy? Is he an LFS employee or something? Dumping whole containers of food, failing on a CO2 tank change, fiddling with your system even though you OBVIOUSLY know what you're doing by the looks of your tank.... it just seems this guy had no knowledge of how to operate/maintain a reef... I'm getting more PO'd right now thinking about it, especially since I enjoy your new posts with pics...

Again, so sorry for the mess.

 

The guy was referred by a LFS, he services tanks all over. Guess he mostly deals with mixed tanks. The thing is, I told him not to adjust a thing, to remove the regulator and replace the tank. Open up the tank's valve, and it would be fine. I really don't understand why he adjusted the needle valve. On my reactor, it's run differently than most, the regulator and needle valve are opened up all the way, and there is a separate sensor that shuts off the CO2 as it runs through the box.

What I am going to do is automate my tank, and have spare CO2 if I ever have to run out of town. Then I will let the tank run on it's own, and probably have much better results.

 

Any updates? How's the recovering going?

 

So a month ago, I was out of town for over a month, and in that time I hired a professional maintenance company to care for my tank. I needed the guy to swap out my CO2 tank for a full one, and even paid extra to buy a larger tank. I instructed the guy to remove the regulator and not adjust a thing. Also told him to not even worry about bubble count, since my Reactor runs differently than other Calcium Reactors. Well after 1 1/2 months, I came home to super low alk. The reason was the guy decided to turn down the regulator, and it wasn't getting enough CO2 to the reactor. He basically shut off the needle valve. Anyway, here are some of my recovering coral.
Mummy Eye and Mias Pot of Gold morphed during the fiasco

poor Ice fire lost it's color, but is doing better

German blue polyp is recovered

this tabling acro has morphed into a blue with red polyp coral. Used to be just a light red with red polyps

this brown turd of a candlelight acro is finally showing signs of purple

bumblebee acro is recovering'

Bazooka Joe is on it's way back

undata is almost 100%


HI Flame

scored this guy a month ago, until I get Max back

FTS with lot's less

frags from Imus last weekend along with the mini colony of Pink Lemonade that came full circle thanks to DBTC



Recovering RMF Blueberry acro recovering

a little more blue to the Biohazzard and it will have made a full recovery

Lime in the Sky that was off my rack and under a rock, for a month, is on it's way back

And this RMF mille is recovering and gaining it's color back

 

I have like 3 big frag packs waiting to be shipped. I just want to clear out any algae I have, and make sure I have all my corals either close to or fully recovered.

 

Every time you get things back to normal something else happens. I hope you didn't pay him.

 

Yeah I paid him, only positive is that it could have been a lot worse.

 

Glad to see things are slowly recovering!

 

Did the guy ever explain why he messed with your system or didn't follow your directions? Seems less than professional to me. I'm sorry, your tank looked amazing and I'm sure it will be better than it was before long.

 

Sorry to hear about your loss, you had quite a collection.