sting_ray29
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I was just curious about how many times your tank crashed and burned.... Before comming into sw aquariums, I heard your tank can get one little disease and kill everything.
Crash and Burn!
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fshhub
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crashed and burned, well
1st tank never got up and runnig b4 killing everything, this I thank my LFS for, bery poor advice
other than that, I had only lost 2 tanks,a dn both were during a 3 day power outage at work, Nothing I could control, or even rectify,no matter how bad I wanted to.
oh yeah, it was subzero weather too.
Althouhg, I never actually had a crash, true one disease, if not properly taken care of, can do alot of dameageee. But careful planning and readiness can help to avoid this, greatly.
1st tank never got up and runnig b4 killing everything, this I thank my LFS for, bery poor advice
other than that, I had only lost 2 tanks,a dn both were during a 3 day power outage at work, Nothing I could control, or even rectify,no matter how bad I wanted to.
oh yeah, it was subzero weather too.Althouhg, I never actually had a crash, true one disease, if not properly taken care of, can do alot of dameageee. But careful planning and readiness can help to avoid this, greatly.
hondo
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Only thing close to this happening to me was two years ago when I went out of town on vacation and the person who was watching my tank closed all the windows in august because she thought it might rain and failed to turn the AC on. Well after a few 90 degree days I lost 3 of my 4 fish to Ich, luckily I came home in time to save the last fish. Other than that my tanks have been pretty stable especially since I quit dosing with trace elements and just stuck to water changes, calcium and alk dosing.
killafins
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the only time my tanks had had acutally crashed and burned was when I was first starting in my younger years (a hole three years ago).... my house got set on fire and the smoke damage was drastic. The fire men forbid us to enter the house so the fish (who could have survived) didn't get fed and needed cleaning. I have no doubt in my mind that I could have saved the tank.
stacyt
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I just recently experienced my 1st real tank crash. I have a 55 reef that was going really great. The wife decided that she wanted a nudibranch, and I didn't feel like arguing so I let her get it. She was already mad because I told her that we didn't need a fire shrimp. Anyways the nudibranch managed to onto the intake to a powerhead, it did have a prefilter, and it just got stuck. Didn't notice this until the next morning, and by then the tank was pretty cloudy. I was ticked, and about to throw everything out the door. The next few days I lost a frogspawn, closed brain, candy cane, gonopora, buble, lots of mushrooms, and all my cleaner shrimp & snails. Somehow my elegance, xenia, polyps, another frogspawn, and a few mushrooms survived.