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anyone in woodbridge? dude I know you guys live out here too! I live right across from great american steakhouse

okay so I pourchased a RO/DI unit from a friend and he was using a different connection for hookup. so unless someone has a wather hose RO/DI unit connect then I need to borrow 10 gallons of RO water until I can get one ordered! help! Josh 3989 Cressida Pl WOODBRIDGE VA

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Haha although I don't think Gadgets is a noob... Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 4

yeah tell me about it bro... should have listened. SMH.... and just a FYI I followed the instructions exactly, so if there is a separate way of dosing this stuff then the manufacture doesn't give a crap about it.

Yeah like a knucklehead I had the skimmer off.. the instructions say nothing about the skimmer on or off. My skimmer is still going nuts after two water changes and 3 days time. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

So far I've counted 23 corals dead and 8 more on the edge Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Yeah bro stinks to high he ll. But what can I do? Dumb mistake. I'll stick it out for now. Yeah lost some plates. Bummer Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Thanks John. It's gonna be awhile before my tank is ready for more stuff. But I'll be stopping by soon for some dr Tim's.

My skimmer is still going nuts after 2 big water changes. I used a little bit of pvc lube to prevent too many bubbles from being pumped out. Calmed the storm to a light rain but still overflowing. Dear lord this stinks. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Death toll rises... what a dumb noob mistake. SMH.

yeah I'm sure there is a spike. so much died I can't imagine not having a spike, the fish are fine and between my water changes yesterday, today, and tomorrow, I should be good with that. I'm running my carbon and GFO still and I might have to change that out after tomorrows WC. FML!!!

dang I just remembered I don't have any good shots of how my tank looked before the crash. bummer X2

dude I wouldn't risk it, just buy some Marco dry rocks and do it right this time. Live rock from the ocean is too much of a gamble for pests.

thanks broski, TOM you too bro! I'm thinking of moving far away from SPS since they are a P.I.T.A. maybe go for a tank like Travis. dunno, all I do know is that as of now I maybe have 1/3rd of my corals still alive but looking like crud. haven't had the lights on for 2 days now. scared to turn them on to see the end result. oh well, another WC tonight and one more for tomorrow, then off to BRK to buy Dr TIMS bio stuff and start over with coral population. the scolys were hanging in there yesterday but looking like junk, I'm hoping that I don't have to trash them as the cost is insane.

I don't know about all that, but my system was looking darn good for the past 8 months or so since I setup this new tank. it's not that I've lost the spirit of the hobby. far from it, hence just selling off corals and fish and storage the rest of my equipment. bah! who am I kidding, I'm staying in, just hate seeing my reef look like cr ap.

I hear ya, I had gone through that a long time ago and the end result was to break it all down and start with new rock and corals... bummer broski.

nah no fish, only my corals. that stuff is nasty I should have known better than to think a shortcut will be good for me. what's the old saying again? Only bad things happen fast...

yeah silly mistake on my part due to me being lazy. oh well. time to make a choice. should I stay or should I go? thanks everyone for the frag offers, I just might hit you up for some stuff, but I need to make up my mind if I want to put more $$ into my system or sell it off and put the hardware into storage.

yeah tell me about it... I don't have a issue with a couple corals dying but almost all of them? dang makes me wanna quit.

thanks everyone, just wanted to post this so others can learn from my mistake. never be lazy when it come to your reef tank. there is NO SUCH THING as a shortcut in this hobby!!!

so I've been in this hobby for a while now, some would say long enough to know what NOT to do in this hobby. well since the arrival of my 2nd child I have found less and less time to give to my hobby; let alone spend $$ on new corals. so as a result my tank grew some nuisance algae, red slime algae to be exact. experience has taught me what to do in dealing with this type of algae, mainly a result of neglect all I would have to do is use a powerhead and a toothbrush to get the algae off the rocks and do a water change to get it out. continue this method until the algae stays away. well I don't really have time to kick up my water changes (which is now around once every 2 weeks, but it should be weekly) so I had a bright idea. Lets use some RED SLIME REMOVER (you know the yellow powder in a small tube) so for a cool price of $16.99 I tried my luck at it. 6 scoops premixed, skimmer off, carbon off, and turned the lights off... 12 hours later: Toxic Tort Colony Cali Tort Colony Gold Mister Chalice Colony Miami Hurricane Chalice Colony Tyree Tri-color Colony Jason Fox Bloodshots Colony Orange Crush Chailce Colony Highlighter SPS Colony Several Rainbow Acan Colonies UC Ironman Blasto Colony Jason Fox Jack-o-Lantern ALL DEAD. YEAH THIS WAS A GREAT IDEA. So basically being lazy about maintenance has caused me a couple grand in corals. Now my tank looks like the beaches of Normandy scattered about are the skeletons of my prized corals. I'm bummed in a sense that I know coming back from this will take time and $$ I don't have right now; so I just might run my system with fish only for a whole until I can accept defeat and break down the system. Lesson Learned, NEVER take short cuts in this hobby. do it right the first time or don't do it at all.

I'll take the ozone bro Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Sweet post. Laughing in the office Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Is that to stabilize the ph? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 4 Beta