So guys.. i know its quiting and all... but im 98% sure that im not going to move forward with my tank anymore. The large amount of money i spent on this dead rock.. was quite ridiculous. Not to mention my 10ppm of ammonia made sure that everything was dead even after i recieved the rock completely worthless.. Just my luck with that one. I already did 2 water changes.. my ammonia went down to around 4-5ppm.. So i tested it again just five minutes ago and it went all the way back up to 9ppm. I dont know how in the world this happened, but it did. So once again, any forms of life that MAY have survived on the rock got nuked again. My tank is dirty, no matter how many times i clean it.. as is the sand. I cleaned it a total of 8 times today.. and somehow.. stuff just rose from the sand of the dead and trashed itself. This really is just too much for me to handle and keep up with. One of my rocks fell also.. the one that i made sure was sturdy, and it was a big piece too. I found it a hairline away from my front glass panel. Now, my protein skimmer is doing wierd things, and even though i set the air-hose up on it.. it sucks in water and floods everything. I really think the universe does not want me to have a SW tank. I tried EVERYTHING to get the skimmer to stop flooding, and the thing i did last time to make it stop.. doesnt work now. Which again, was to put the air-hose it came with, on it. And to boot.. i dont even like my tank. It gives me no room for what i want to do. And sure enough, it seems like it doesnt like me either. Oh yah forgot to mention.. water from the skimmer spilled over and not only short circuited my power strip(luckily i have a gfci.. not that the water got that far anyways, but still) but the water got behind the ENTIRE background that was taped on the tank, and now theres water bubbles and junk all in the background.. I cant move the tank to fix it obviously because it weighs as much as a freakin smart car filled up with sand and LR.. So ya. Im not going any further.. I cant take it. And another thing.. i dont have a sump.. so ALL of my adnormaly LARGE equipment has to be in the tank, and in the way of everything. Which ALSO doesnt allow me to move the rocks around like i want to. Sadly, i wasted lots of money on this stuff.. now that im not continuing. One thing i can say that im happy with though... is the Nova Extreme Pro that i bought last night.. since i WILL definitely be continuing everything once i get my 72G bowfront, and i will be able to use it for that tank. So for now.. i've called it quits. I emptied the tank and im letting the rocks dry up, and then im going to remove them and store them somewhere to use next time as base rock. But im going to smother those freakin rocks in something.. because for some reason i think its these darned rocks that caused my ammonia to go haywire in the first place, and what also brought the ammonia back up to 9ppm AFTER i brought it down to 4ppm.
Since its the rocks that pretty much screwed up my beginning experiance of a new SW tank, i just want to say Thanks to liveaquaria. Thanks Liveaquaria for selling me **** rocks and killing any hopes i ever had of having a nice tank to start off with. THANKS. Never buying jack squat from them ever again. Not even if **** froze over.
Sorry guys.
