Ok a little more about me now.
My name is Daniel. I have been married now for nearly 20 years, I have 4 children who all share my love of marine life. The living room of the home is the default gathering place again (thanks to the tank).
I'm excited to be back in The hobby. I took a long break from the hobby, as I was traveling a lot for work, and my wife didn't want to care for the tank, I had two tank crashes while I was gone. And called it quites after the second crash in 6 months.
The reason for crashes was a poorly designed tank drain system and kids. Snail climbed in to a drain, and plugged it, I didn't have any passive monitoring, the tank flooded, and the auto top off kept RO water flowing in to the tank, 24 hours later, everything was dead. I came home to a mess.
I cleaned it up, made changes to the drains, thought we had it taken care of. A few month later I came home from a work trip again and found a couple handfuls of coins in the tank. All pennies, and everything dead again.
I was so heart broken I gave up.
I don't travel for work anymore, I am home almost every night, and I have kids that help take care fo the tank.
My youngest child is 10 my oldest is 18 and senior in high school. If you follow Wrestling, you will notice him this year...
That's a little about me, I hope to get to know more of you, and to share and exchange ideas.
Edited by redleader - November 27 2014 at 9:57pm