Week #4
What a wonderful vacation @ Fort Leonard Wood Mo. I took my mother with us to see my son's Graduation from the Army on April 7th. Wonderful ceremony! I'm so darn proud of him. I didn't think he could handle it, because he hates being told what to do. Boy was I surprised, they really changed him in a matter of 10 weeks. He's in Fort Lee, Va now. We're already planning a weekend down there to. It's at least closer to us. Fort Leonard Wood took us 13 hours one way, and Fort Lee is only gonna take us about 5 hours. So Looking forward to the trip.
Back to the tank action.
Everything seems fine in the RSM 250. Parameters are fine, except the darn Nitrates are staying at 5. GRRR We had a bit of a scare while we were away. The tank temp got to 77.3, and it was at a steady 75 before we left, but my daughter didn't turn on the Central air in the house while we were gone. So that's what I'm guessing. I didn't think to tell her before we left, but I made a cheat sheet and taped it to the wall for when we ever go anywhere again. Temp, tank feeding days and times, taught her how to test the water, etc....
I should have been on top of it before we left, but we were so excited to go see him graduate, it slipped my mind about the tank temp. Cause it was staying at a steady 75, till it got really warm that weekend. I'm looking into a chiller now finally. I wanted to wait till after the graduation, before I dipped into tank money. You never know what could happen emergency wise.
So take a tip if no one else has advised it yet, and make a Cheat Sheet for your tank sitters.
I put the Mushroom rock in, and a few other corals. They seem to be doing fine. I'll be doing a scrub down tonight I can't stand looking at any kind of algae in there at all. I'm also headed to the LFS to get Brittle stars, and urchins for some algae cleaners and excess food eaters. Not sure what else is going to be safe in the tank with an Octo or a Cuttlefish, but glad I have more then one tank for emergencies.
MTS
I'll take some photos this weekend, I'm still unloading photos from the graduation. I'm a bit of a Picture addict. lol