Crash

Well I guess it happens to all of us. Last week my wife called me to tell me the tank was down and nothing was running. I had her reset the ground fault and the tank came back on. The temp was 53 and needless to say everything was dead. All the corals and fish were gone. I was wondering if there are any members out there that got frags from me that might still have those corals? I would love to get a frag if at all possible. Im starting all over.

HOLLY CRAP!!!

wow very unfortunate. Sorry to hear. If theres anything i have that you may want frags of LMK, ill be happy to donate to you.

OMG no!! That’s devastating - you had by far the nicest tank in Delaware (and probably the surrounding area). So sorry to hear.

Holy Crap, Mike! sorry to hear that. Please let us know what we can do for you. I’m sure other members can offer you some frags. May not be the ones you had, but it’s someting.

Hi Mike. Sorry to hear from you with such bad news. I guess after such a bigdie off, you are doing lots of water changes and filter media to clean up. have you figured out what caused the power trip? any way to back it up ?

I don’t think i have any of your old frags. my tanks are coming down . the were set up too long ago before i knew better, and i havent been able it improve the bad bad algea problems or the bio filters. and i need to do a bunch of home repair,. so they are coming down to clear the deck. I think i have some things left to help you replant. I’ll get in touch with you. say when you think its ready.

Sorry to hear about your loss, it’s happend to me before to and I know that sinking feeling you get it really stinks.

I don’t have any of your corals but I would be glad to give you a whole colony of mine and some frags.

I also ordered a atlantic blue tang that didn’t ship out due to weather delays and I seince tore down my larger tank so you can even have him if you want once be arrives .

Agian sorry for your losses

Sorry for your loss. I feel your pain.

That really sucks. The pics you shared with us of your tank showed a dazzling system. When you get it back in shape let us know. I can spare a few things to get you back going.

Will you be making any major changes to the system now that its a new beginning?

Thanks for all the kind words and the generous offers. I think I will take you up on some of the offers once I get the parameters dialed in.

Ken, I hope the tank break down is temproary?

As far as upgrades, the system I had was running great with great growth and color. With that said I will probably keep things pretty close to what I had. I did change the aquascape and got rid of some rocks that had GSP on them. I will definitely be putting a controller to notify me when the tank goes down.

A controller would be a good investment. Will you also put things on different GFCI circuts to prevent a complete shutdown in a similar instance? The controller can control 2 heaters, if 1 is on a tripped GFCI the other would still work. Many of us know the pain of a failure that could have been stopped with redundancy of some sort.
The Neptune Apex is really nice, has excellent support and more features than you can dream of. Their website has a forum dedicated to helping users too.

Sorry to here about your lost! I can relate also, Hurricane Irene took out my 125G all reef, I lost everything a rare chalice collection, rarest Z & P collections, and a Tyree Purple Monster colony about 7" x 7" probably worth over $7K in total maybe $15K in corals lost. Lost all of my fish the temp was about 65 degrees. Lesson learn, my wife was telling me year after year to buy a generator. Did I listen…no! Now I own a generator!! At the moment I’m not keeping corals, just breeding clownfish otherwise I would have hooked you up with a few pieces. Hang in there…shit happens! You’ll comeback stronger.

yup. sudden outages can do the job. i lost most everything in my tanks back in 2003 when Hurricane Isabella knocked power out for more than 5 days. Only some zoos and pallys survived and one real mean yellow damsel. still have the damsel. still going strong. Dang it.

like i said, ive got lots of renovations to do. cant do any with the tanks sitting here. and i need to take a break. I havent been able to leave home on a trip for more than a day the past 12 years because of the tanks. I need some travel time.

So, Just say when you are ready Mike. I’ll see whats left that would suit your likes.

I got some euphillya, candy canes, and some sps for ya, PM me when your ready and I’ll hook you up.