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Posted: July 24 2013 at 4:25pm |
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Be careful, that little tank is a seed and it will grow!
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Posted: July 24 2013 at 4:14pm |
Glad to see you landed on your feet! Hobby on! 
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Posted: July 24 2013 at 4:09pm |
awesome. A true blue hobbyist. 
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Posted: July 24 2013 at 3:03pm |
 improdigal wrote:
Thought you all might get a kick out of this.... until further notice our family fish tank will now be THIS |
Just add salt! :)
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Posted: July 24 2013 at 2:12pm |
Thought you all might get a kick out of this.... until further notice our family fish tank will now be THIS:
Ironically, this was the first tank I had on my desk 14 years ago that started my fish tank obsession... at my peak I had 7 tanks.... and now we're back full circle.
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Posted: May 31 2013 at 12:52pm |
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Sorry to hear it, improdigal.
If I were you, I'd just hold on to as much stuff as you can in a closet - dry and dead - for the hopes of bringing it back up later. I wished I would have done that with my last tank.
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I've really sick of the buckets of live rock all over. I had never considered just letting it die. If you do that will anything ever come back on the rock later, or would it just be starting your rock over from scratch?
The tank isn't selling and I'm not sure I want it to, but the noise of the buckets of live rock cycling is driving me nuts. Maybe I should sell half, keep half dead in a closet for 'some day'.
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Posted: May 15 2013 at 5:46pm |
well... insurance adjuster came by today. House is covered... everything in the house... is NOT. EVERYthing... so, the kids beds, dressers, my tank lights that fried, all the dead fish and coral, all gone :-) lovely....
Apparently if your mom leaves you her house in the will, but it's still in the family trust name.... then the house is insured like a rental (even if you aren't paying rent).. so apparently we were supposed to get renters insurance all this time and had no clue. Lol HO HO  HE HE  HA HA  .....  ! |
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Posted: May 14 2013 at 2:26pm |
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Just setup and auto water change system and then "you" don't even have to change the water, you just keep the mixed water bucket full. It really makes a slick setup and gives you tons of time to enjoy the tank and not worry about maintenance.
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Posted: May 14 2013 at 2:00pm |
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Ironically, that's why I would rather not keep just 1 tank though... the volume the less work. Unlike the average reefer, I actually loathe the maintenance, so I get obsessed and spend tons of money and time on elaborate designs that require as little maintenance as possible LOL... thus little cube, would look cute but then you HAVE to do regular water changes hehehe... when my last tank was established.. I changed my water... maybe every 6 months ha ha ha
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Posted: May 14 2013 at 12:17pm |
IF it were me id sell everything to help with the repairs and find a cheap biocube or something really small and simple thats not risky at all, but can be stocked rather cheaply and keeps the hobbyists flame burning. Then when the "someday" comes you can make a full scale comeback.. Just my 2¢ of what i would do... Good Luck with everything!
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Posted: May 13 2013 at 3:43pm |
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Sorry to hear it, improdigal.
If I were you, I'd just hold on to as much stuff as you can in a closet - dry and dead - for the hopes of bringing it back up later. I wished I would have done that with my last tank.
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Ils sont fous, ces Romains!
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Posted: May 13 2013 at 12:29pm |
Thanks guys... can use any good news... I'm sitting here as we speak contemplating the fact that it will probably be a long while before I recover from this financially.. which means I have no reason to keep 2-3 tanks full of water and rock :'(
I think I'm just going to have to sell it all and hope I can come back someday 
There is no point in having an empty tank and even less reason to keep 200 lbs of live rock in a bucket with water and pump LOL... plus this was my mother in law's house... so my wife and her brother are notably bummed about their childhood home and more than a little apprehensive about having tanks in here anymore...
.... and all the same day I was excited to turn on my even cooler setup.... dang it..
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Posted: May 13 2013 at 12:22pm |
I agree with Mark
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Posted: May 13 2013 at 12:08pm |
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Posted: May 13 2013 at 7:30am |
That is slick! I definitely feel bad for what happened, but I hope you can take a little solace in the fact that some of us are learning *a lot* from your experience.
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Posted: May 12 2013 at 10:01pm |
Side side note for people looking for prevention tips, one of the other cool tips from the beananimal setup... on your gravity drain, instead of just leaving an open air hole on the back to prevent 'slurping' noise, run an airhose from the back air inlet into the drain just above where you want the water line:
What this does is, if the water line gets too high... the air line is plugged, and the line becomes a siphon drain rather than just a gravity drain and starts to PULL the water down at top speed.
The tank above is the refugium that caused the flood and by adding this during my testing outside, it not only repeatedly prevented further flooding, but after several alternating fill-ups, siphons, it actually seemed to clean out the plugged drain and then balanced out the gravity drain to keep up with the water flow rate again.
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Posted: May 11 2013 at 8:39am |
Mark Peterson wrote:
Then why not go with a sumpless tank? It's the absolute safest. Except for one tank, for economic and space saving reasons, I've run sumpless on my last 6+ wonderful tanks. No floods, no damage, no upset wife, no worries mate.
By the way, I agree with Bryce.
Remember this though, for every hole drilled into the glass the risk of cracked glass either during the drilling or after it's set up, increases greatly.
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There is still risk with any tank, but of course with a sumpless the risk is much less but things still happen.
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Posted: May 11 2013 at 8:01am |
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Then why not go with a sumpless tank? It's the absolute safest. Except for one tank, for economic and space saving reasons, I've run sumpless on my last 6+ wonderful tanks. No floods, no damage, no upset wife, no worries mate.
By the way, I agree with Bryce.
Remember this though, for every hole drilled into the glass the risk of cracked glass either during the drilling or after it's set up, increases greatly.
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Posted: May 11 2013 at 6:37am |
Side side note, the refugium in question may be up for sale shortly, along with the stand you can see it sitting on sideways above.
Despite having just finished the plumbing for my future 3 tank/2 pump/0 powerhead setup (that was to be plugged in the day I came home and found the flood), my sweet wife has become understandably tired of fish tanks now and is wanting to reduce to 1 (I'm trying to negotiate to for 2 so I have some place for macro).
Wish me luck... I suspect if I have to throw out all but the one tank, I may just toss them all (since I'm not sure how stable it will be with just a bio-ball sump). I'd be starting over from scratch now anyway...
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Posted: May 11 2013 at 6:29am |
Yup, in the end I opted to get the 2nd drill, but not a 3rd (mostly because I couldn't run an emergency drain without a great deal more mess.
The screens and filters would be similar to how the drain was. Those drains seem to work fine for lower water volume, but not for 12-2400 gph, which is how I tend to run things now.
Side note that I'm sure you'd all find humorous... I'm trying to save what I can of the refugium life now, that mostly being macro and live sand (or dead sand?), and I also didn't want to let my bioballs go dry... here is my current refugium/sump lifeboat...
Wish I had set this up before all my fish were dead.... of course since it's outside... temperature control would probably have been a problem LOL
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