One week later, three days before my family and I are about to head off to Mexico for two weeks I go down stairs for my morning tank visit and the main tank is ^&**% leaking!
Fortunately I still had my 33 gal, so out everything went, LR in plastic tubs and fish back into the 33gal. The leak was coming from the bottom seal, so I ran out to Rona and picked up their aquarium safe silicone and resealed the whole bottom.
48 hours later ( and a lot of stress!) everything was back in the tank except 1 cleaner shrimp that didn't survive the ordeal, I'm thinking "not bad considering" or so I thought!.... Anyway the next morning off to Mexico we went, leaving my mother with a few "to check" items. My lighting is on timers, I have the Tunze 3155 Osmolator, and auto feeder, all she needed to do was to drop in a bit of Myis etc every couple of days what could go wrong???......grr grr
Well after two glorious weeks of sun and surf I came home to another disaster!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know how and still haven't been able to figure it out but my sump was almost dry! There was only approx 2" water in it ( usually 9") my return pump was screaming, yet my top off bucket was still half full?? Consequently my tank had no circulation and the temp in the tank was 68! For a WEEK!
I lost 7 fish! Amazingly my foxface, 2 clowns, 6 line & solar wrasse along with my Cleaner ( Jacques) and fire shrimp survived. Basically my fish and corals had gone through hell and back twice in less than a month!
Unfortunately a few days after getting things back to normal my clowns died. I'm guessing from velvet. So I'm now waiting for 1 month ( from March 31st) before adding anymore fish.