- Location
- Flushing NY 11355
in tanks that are left unattend for 2 months and without heat, nor water, movement and any auto management stuff?
As you guys all know I have been away to Kansas for couple months and, in fact, I travelled back and forth a month or so before that.
So, I left all my tanks unattanded and removed all fish and corals (actually I still have couple rainbow acans frags) to my friend's tank. One particular tank I want to mention is the 240G system volume one in my unheated garage. During the month of travelling and as all my fish are gone, I decided to go further lower salinity than already low to kill off everything that may be harmful. This is the holding tank for my fish import. It is dropped to 1.001 (it's maintained at 1.001 by my bois) to make sure there are no ick and such. I finally moved to Kansas and thus I stopped all heaters, all pumps and power head for 2 months. The water was freezing cold when I return 3 4 weeks ago. What do you guys think happened? There is another 40G holding tank that has the water salinity issue in the reverse of the 240G, that is the salinity is very very high when I returned due to evaporation as I told my bois to just ignore that tank. Guess what I found in the tanks when I started the pumps couple days ago.
Just before I left, there should be no fish (well I know there must be couple purple firefish that has went to the sump but with ~1000lb rocks there, I gave up to located them after 3 days); there must be snails, crabs, stars, and macro algae. Should everything there have died-super cold, no water movement, no food, no light(except a little form the tiny window)...
As you guys all know I have been away to Kansas for couple months and, in fact, I travelled back and forth a month or so before that.
So, I left all my tanks unattanded and removed all fish and corals (actually I still have couple rainbow acans frags) to my friend's tank. One particular tank I want to mention is the 240G system volume one in my unheated garage. During the month of travelling and as all my fish are gone, I decided to go further lower salinity than already low to kill off everything that may be harmful. This is the holding tank for my fish import. It is dropped to 1.001 (it's maintained at 1.001 by my bois) to make sure there are no ick and such. I finally moved to Kansas and thus I stopped all heaters, all pumps and power head for 2 months. The water was freezing cold when I return 3 4 weeks ago. What do you guys think happened? There is another 40G holding tank that has the water salinity issue in the reverse of the 240G, that is the salinity is very very high when I returned due to evaporation as I told my bois to just ignore that tank. Guess what I found in the tanks when I started the pumps couple days ago.
Just before I left, there should be no fish (well I know there must be couple purple firefish that has went to the sump but with ~1000lb rocks there, I gave up to located them after 3 days); there must be snails, crabs, stars, and macro algae. Should everything there have died-super cold, no water movement, no food, no light(except a little form the tiny window)...
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