Oh my gosh I still done see anything! I swear everything is so hard!!!! Haha
I think that is a fair point! I am sure @Waynerock can provide us with the necessary information if he cares to continue the hobby!
Well I see your point but I am a “treat others with respect until they give you reason to not kind of guy”. My history should show the love I had in my tank and how much time I spent with it. If any sick person wanted to fake what we are going through here in WNC for free stuff I will be the first one knocking on their door! I don’t want anything from anyone nor was I asking. Honestly I was just saying good bye to a place that gave me so much help and compassion and beauty over the years. I would have no way to prove otherwise so you got to use faith and your best judgement. My address is 50 Cottage Ridge Road in Fletcher NC 29732, you can look up the carnage and see what’s going on. We are a strong group here. I have seen so much help and love from the community here it has completely restored my faith in human beings. At least around my area. I have not see 1 FEMA truck or worker anywhere here. I know they are here but none of us can find them. We need them but we don’t. They need to be helping the ones who lost absolutely everything. I could not imagine. I could not accept anything from anyone here. You guys are too sweet and it chokes me up more than you know to see others want to help me. I honestly love y’all and wish the best of luck to everyone on here. I have my hands so full with my 10 year old son and my wife’s GD cancer is getting worse and the tumor is pushing on her spinal cord where she can’t walk. It’s just a matter of time and all I can do I make her comfortable and know she is loved. I don’t think I have the strength to start over. I had many corals over 15 years old that I grew out from a single polyp. It’s hard to just refill and go again. Here are some photos of my neighborhood. We got very lucky. Biltmore village and other places not so much. I literally volunteered on Sunday to walk the riverside on the Swannanoa river to look for bodies. I can’t do that again. We found 2 buried and could only tell someone was there from the smell. It will break you and it puts my tank problem to the back of the line! I have no idea what is being shown around the country because I don’t have TV right now.
I wish your wife the best, and may your tank rest in peace. Hats off to you.
Good luck that guy is blowing something fierce. I could not imagine the winds. We got up to 104mph and I was seeing gusts of 80-90 and dang. I did not sleep because we kept having little tornadoes and the trees around my house are big. Hope you guys are all ok
I would love to fire up the red box again because my wife is pushing me too. She loved the way it made the house look. Unfortunately she does not understand the sheer amount of stuff I have to do just for her so it’s gonna be hard. Maybe after Christmas. I just had so much amazing stuff. I had a bleeding apple Scoly I got from ASD back in 2017 that was the size of a saucer! It was so big! It killed me watching it just melt away. Watching the snails and hermits crawl out of the top of the water because it was so poisonous after 5 days was so dang sad. I waited and prayed that to power would come back and I could save some but it only came back on late this morning and it’s been 11 days. No matter what I feel responsible and I feel that I failed my tank and I failed to protect it. Although after 11 days if you can’t get fuel anywhere and you don’t have a 20-$30,000 Generac generator you’re pretty screwed.
Here is that Scoly and my pride and joy THE red dragon out of Jake Adams tank I got right before he died. It was only a branch and it grew amazing and the color was something else
There are some options I think if researched properly. There are mobile AC batteries that can be charged with solar panels for example. You wouldn't be able to power the tank day/night but you would be able to manage some parameters better. Also if you live in a pretty open space, a wind turbine can generate a bit of energy (200-400 Watt is doable with windmills that don't cost a fortune, couple of hundred bucks) You only need enough power to keep it on life support right? No real experience with these types of outages. We sometimes get a small power failure but it's maximum for an hour or so and I can cover that of with a computer UPS I have hooked to the tank.
hes lost everything. i dont think they can even get fuel right now.
Yes I know. This is not meant as criticism. Excuse me if I came on the wrong way but English isn't my native language so I apologise!
