TroutbumNV
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Hey all, new member, not new to aquariums.
I've had aquariums nearly all my life, but got out of the hobby around 10 years ago after battling an illness and the bills there after.
Recently, I came across someone in the same situation, though they dragged the getting out part for way too long. A 10 gallon little reef, that pretty much hadn't been cared for in 8 months.
From what I've been told, the tank hadn't been cleaned or had a water change for at least 8 months. 6 months ago, the lights failed and we're never repaired/replaced. The algae was thick enough you couldn't see in to the tank from any side.
I took over the tank. Between what I had laying around and what they had, it's at least a start.
Somehow, some things did survive. There is currently a maroon clown and a yellow goby in there. Yes, I know neither have any business in a 10 gal, I'm currently trying to rehome. Also, a single mushroom and a galaxea somehow made it, but barely (both were near translucent, the mushroom the worse).
Currently I've got a koralia in there. A little hob filter for just a bit of flow and to run some carbon (no other media in it). I found a 10W 14K LED spotlight laying around, and gutted his old oddysea T5 fixture that was nonop and mounted that inside. The lights something I'm not real sure on, I got out of the hobby right before leds really came in, so not too versed on those.
I've had it running around 2 weeks now and the galaxea has gotten some nice color returned to it. The mushroom has been slower to recover, but it has gotten some color back, it was pretty much clear when I started.
I know this doesn't look so good now, I should have taken pictures at the start, but here's how it sits now, it looks 100X better:
When digging around in storage, I found and old 30ish or so gallon, thinking this might actually just end up a sump for that...
I've had aquariums nearly all my life, but got out of the hobby around 10 years ago after battling an illness and the bills there after.
Recently, I came across someone in the same situation, though they dragged the getting out part for way too long. A 10 gallon little reef, that pretty much hadn't been cared for in 8 months.
From what I've been told, the tank hadn't been cleaned or had a water change for at least 8 months. 6 months ago, the lights failed and we're never repaired/replaced. The algae was thick enough you couldn't see in to the tank from any side.
I took over the tank. Between what I had laying around and what they had, it's at least a start.
Somehow, some things did survive. There is currently a maroon clown and a yellow goby in there. Yes, I know neither have any business in a 10 gal, I'm currently trying to rehome. Also, a single mushroom and a galaxea somehow made it, but barely (both were near translucent, the mushroom the worse).
Currently I've got a koralia in there. A little hob filter for just a bit of flow and to run some carbon (no other media in it). I found a 10W 14K LED spotlight laying around, and gutted his old oddysea T5 fixture that was nonop and mounted that inside. The lights something I'm not real sure on, I got out of the hobby right before leds really came in, so not too versed on those.
I've had it running around 2 weeks now and the galaxea has gotten some nice color returned to it. The mushroom has been slower to recover, but it has gotten some color back, it was pretty much clear when I started.
I know this doesn't look so good now, I should have taken pictures at the start, but here's how it sits now, it looks 100X better:
When digging around in storage, I found and old 30ish or so gallon, thinking this might actually just end up a sump for that...
