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07-28-2007, 06:32 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bakersfield, CA
Posts: 69
Karma: 39
 |  Complete and total devistation!!!!
Well my tank was up and running for three years with out any major malfunctions. We took a family trip for a week and upon our return the tank was dead and the house smeeld terrible and our new hard wood floors and swollen. I lost everything in the tank. I have over $2000 invested in my set up and now it must go. You guys can read my sig and see if there is anything you want. Make me an offer! Everything will be sold. If there is something you need, ask and I may have it.
Bummed!,
MIKE
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Since 02-04, 125 gal with 150 lbs of live rock, 100 lbs of live sand, 2-175 wattt MH, 4-65 watt acintic compacts, Coralife skimmer, 20 gal sump/refugium, 25 watt UV, Fish 1 Royal Tang, 2- Hawiian Tangs, 1-Flame Angel, 1-Emperor Angel, 2-Watchman Gobies, 1-Marron Clown, 1-Percula Clown , 1-Manderan goby, 1-6 line wrass, 6 stars, 1- sand siffting , 1-royal gramma. Corals 1-bubble coral, 3-bubble anemone (was one it split), White Xenia, button polyps, mushrooms, zoos. | 
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07-28-2007, 06:35 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
Posts: 3,905
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damn! I feel ya bro. Ive been there twice this year. 2 seperate tanks, anything you need, let me know. _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." Andre Gide  | |
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07-28-2007, 06:54 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
Posts: 4,778
 
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So sorry.
You experienced the biggest fear we all face when we leave our tanks for any length of time.
If you feel like telling us, what happened? _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott") | |
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07-28-2007, 06:57 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bakersfield, CA
Posts: 69
Karma: 39
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Well as far as I can tell, the auto top off kept topping off. the floor was flooded and the salinity was way below any reading I could get. Seeing ally my fish bloated and floating was a heartbreaker. | |
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07-28-2007, 07:01 PM
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| | Zoanthid
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: ontario, canada
Posts: 1,117
Karma: 166
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I am so sorry _________ 20g
25lbs LR
1 hydor koralia
rio nano skimmer FISH: blk/white clown, damsel, yellow watchman goby CORAL: grn open brain, acan, torch, rics, toadstool, zoo's
INVERT:[/u] hermits, nassarius, astrea, turbo's, nerites, crocea clam
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07-28-2007, 09:07 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
Posts: 3,818
 
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Did you have a float valve hooked to your RO unit?? _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 Parameters My 265 Gal. Tank Thread   | |
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07-28-2007, 10:51 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
Posts: 3,447
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That is awful...karma for your loss. I hope you are able to start up again some day. _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1 x 54w Fiji Purple T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w Super Actinic Blue T5 HO Flourescent
1 x 54w 14000K AquaBlue 75/25 T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
Hard Stuff:
100+ lb. Fiji Live Rock
65+ lb. Live sand
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07-29-2007, 03:05 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
Posts: 3,963
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I wish there were something more we could do for a fellow reefer than just say sorry in a time like this! Man, that sucks to come home and have what you just experienced happen!
Good luck with what ever road you chose and can't be sympathetic enough for your losses, aggrevation and dejection! _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
"IF THE PHONE DOESN'T RING...IT'S ME"  jb  | |
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08-05-2007, 07:29 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Orland IL Age: 35
Posts: 57
Karma: 52
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Sorry to hear about your tank dude... I think that's one of the main reasons why I've talked my wife out of taking any long vacations.. but I have to say don't give up man put some salt in that water and look forward to getting some new creatures. | |
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08-05-2007, 07:36 PM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Wheaton, Illinois
Posts: 524
Karma: 41
| Sorry isnt enough
I do feel bad for you! Rather the say sorry and move on I have a couple frags that I would send ya to get you restarted. Let me know what else I can do? Not real close being in IL but hate to lose a fellow reefer _________  Starting over with a 210 RR from All Glass, Lifereef Berlin sump, skimmer (installed) and calcium reactor (ordered). Aquatraders Catalina 72" 3x400 mh 10 k/4x96 watt blue PC, Closed Loop with Little Giant 4MDQX-SC and 2- 3/4 Seaswirls. | |
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