Free Corals in Northeast Iowa!!!

Atticus · #1 01/02/2008, 12:50 AM

Murphy's Law took over when I tried to move my tank this last week. I have lost everything but a few leather corals and unfortunatly I believe they are soon to be next. I will give Ben first option as I promissed him a bunch of items prior to the move, but if he does not want them or is not able to pick them up right away I will go with the next person in line.

They are a Neon Green Devil's Hand Leather, Neon green polyped toad stool and a rare Pink crown leather with green polyps.

heartben · #2 01/02/2008, 01:18 AM

holy crap! thats not cool at all!!

yeah, i will take them... can probably get em tomorrow if youll be around? youre just in independence now right?

let me know via PM or whatever

im sorry to hear that about your coral..
-ben

Atticus · #3 01/02/2008, 01:21 AM

Yeah we are in Indy. I will pm my phone number.

xroads · #4 01/02/2008, 09:52 AM

Welcome to the area, where are youe setting up shop?

glaspie69 · #5 01/02/2008, 11:02 AM

Where in Indy did you move?

jtesdall · #6 01/02/2008, 11:12 AM

I am really sad to hear that Travis. These tank crashed lately are really scaring me. Especially when they have your years of experience. What happened? You aren't getting out are you?

Atticus · #7 01/02/2008, 12:11 PM

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Originally posted by glaspie69
Where in Indy did you move?

We bought a house next to Mc Donalds. Great place for a health clinic right???

xroads · #8 01/02/2008, 12:19 PM

Are you going to run your office out of your home. Too bad you werent in Waterloo, I have 3 employees that visit one every 3 weeks.

Atticus · #9 01/02/2008, 12:33 PM

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Originally posted by jtesdall
I am really sad to hear that Travis. These tank crashed lately are really scaring me. Especially when they have your years of experience. What happened? You aren't getting out are you?

This was nothing for you to worry about. It was a "perfect storm" of issues. I setup a holding tank for all of the fish and corals at my old place so I could get the 90 running at the new place. The water at the new house was so crappy and cold it fouled out my old RO filter in no time. The 90 never did get filled as in 24 hours of running my 75 gph RO I got 15 gallons of water. To help things along I decided to put the live rock and water I brought along on the move into the 90. Unfortunatly the water hit 56 degrees during an only 2 hour drive and an ammonia spike fouled the water in the 90 gallon tank. The ammonia spike allowed the pH to drop to 5.85 and it actually started to melt my live rock.

So, the 90 was not ready, but we had to be out of the old place by the 31st. We drove down to Davenport only to find all of my fish laying on the bottom of the tank. A few corals were dead and the rest looked like crap. Appearantly the heater was plugged into an outlet that was run by a light switch and the switch got flipped as we left. The tank was at 60 degrees and a pH of 7.45. This killed a couple corals and I thought it killed all of my fish. I quickly threw some heaters into the tank and slowly raised the temp to 75. I luckily had some buffer there also to combat the pH drop as the temp increased. At 70 degrees all of my fish came back to life!!! I thought I had a chance at saving my tank.

We moved everything that night and drove home through the worst fog I have seen in years. The fish made it through the trip and through the night. We checked on them before going out to breakfast and the tub holding the corals and fish was at 74 degrees and a pH of 7.85. We left for breakfast. When we returned the temp was 78, the water was cloudy, and the pH dropped to 6.87. I believe the ammonia spiked with the increased heat and the pH change allowed the calcium to precipitate thus dropping the pH. Similar to what happened in the live rock tank.

So now I have 3-4 corals sitting in fresh saltwater in 10 gallon tanks and a 90 gallon filled with cycling water and dead rock...

Got to love this hobby!!!

Atticus · #10 01/02/2008, 12:34 PM

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Originally posted by xroads
Are you going to run your office out of your home. Too bad you werent in Waterloo, I have 3 employees that visit one every 3 weeks.

The office will be on our property. We are only 20 mins from Waterloo... :P

phishcrazee · #11 01/02/2008, 12:47 PM

Sorry to hear about the tank

Makes me wonder if I could have saved my fish from my tank crashing.........

glaspie69 · #12 01/02/2008, 01:05 PM

If you need somehere to put them I'm about a mile away

Atticus · #13 01/02/2008, 01:39 PM

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Originally posted by glaspie69
If you need somehere to put them I'm about a mile away

Thought you moved to Waterloo/Cedar Falls. Are you still in your place on 150?

glaspie69 · #14 01/02/2008, 01:43 PM

No we bought a house right in Indy on Terrace Drive

leeweber85 · #15 01/02/2008, 08:00 PM

well... if ben doesn't have room for that neon green toadstool.... I certainly would love to have it. I could even pick it up tonight.

Atticus · #16 01/02/2008, 08:14 PM

Everything was picked up today. Hopefully they pull through and we can see some frags bouncing around the club in the future.

Atticus · #17 01/02/2008, 08:18 PM

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Originally posted by glaspie69
No we bought a house right in Indy on Terrace Drive

Dang, if I would have known I would have definatly been knocking on your door. Good to know you are still in the neighborhood!!!

glaspie69 · #18 01/02/2008, 08:52 PM

did you guys buy that big house in the middle between subway and mcdonalds? if its that one we looked at it before we bought this one

ZLTFUL · #19 01/03/2008, 12:00 AM

OK...been a little while since I was in Indy last but housing between McDonald's and Subway? Thought that was all commercial development...

I used to stay at the Super 8 there all the time when I was testing 911 up that way...

glaspie69 · #20 01/03/2008, 11:02 AM

nah theres three or four houses between them

matt the fiddler · #21 01/03/2008, 12:05 PM

:/ I know how you feel...

I Hope the recovery and all else go well.. wishing you luck

Atticus · #22 01/04/2008, 03:29 AM

Yeah we bought that big grey one. We needed the commercial zoning.

heartben · #23 01/04/2008, 04:29 PM

its kinda looking like the coral is either shedding or dying...

just keeping you updated..

Atticus · #24 01/05/2008, 12:19 AM

There will be a lot of shedding. If it is dying it will start to dissolve and you will see calcium "needles" sticking out. Shedding is just a slime coat sloughing and it looks like plastic wrap comming off.

tibbs2 · #25 01/08/2008, 09:43 PM

Tough break atticus. I think if I ever move a considerable distance I may just try and sell my livestock even though I'm pretty attached to it. I'd hate to lose it all.

Ill hook you up with a frag of zoanthid or ric next time I see you if you want em.

Chris