skimmer was off for 3 days

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  1. leighton1245

    leighton1245 Horrid Stonefish

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    I was cleaning everything on sunday night and forgot to plug my skimmer back in. Here is the issue i broke my tibia, fibia, and ankle on monday so i cant do a water change or put any weight at all on my leg. SO do you guys think that it will be okay? my coral dont looked to stressed just some brown algae on the glass
     
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  3. Swisswiss

    Swisswiss Caribbean Reef Squid

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    hmm, what did you do to break your entire lower leg? cant you get a dude (a miss would be better, you can play the whole victim scean with your leg, while explaining how delicate it is to keep a saltwater tank) next door or a homie to help you out?
     
  4. leighton1245

    leighton1245 Horrid Stonefish

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    lol i can con my gf into feeding my fish but not lugging 5 gallons of water around and I was playing basketball and got pushed on a fast break after i had planted wasnt a pretty picture. my lower leg smacked into the post the backboard was on.
     
  5. jtr38230

    jtr38230 Skunk Shrimp

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    I call foul on that one...
     
  6. leighton1245

    leighton1245 Horrid Stonefish

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    lol me to
     
  7. coylee_17

    coylee_17 Fire Goby

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    Sorry about the leg, that really sucks. As for the skimmer I think it should be fine, your skimmer is oversized anyway if I remember correctly? So it should be able to pull the gunk out.
     
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  9. rocketmandb

    rocketmandb Ocellaris Clown

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    A few days of no skimmer isn't going to do any real harm. Just get it going again and keep it extra clean.

    Get down on your hands and knee and get under the stand.... ;D
     
  10. NanoMano

    NanoMano Gigas Clam

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    my wife hauls around 5g pails all the time for me, maybe you need to convince her to be more of a team player ;)
     
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    Rawdogz Torch Coral

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  12. leighton1245

    leighton1245 Horrid Stonefish

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    thank you fr the kind words, Yes it is good memory.

    thank you

    Thanks i am going ot work on this because im going to be out of commission for a while.