Ahhh man that sucks. I've always admired your tank. Hopefully the New Year is a better year for reefing. I still owe you some corals and if my tank transfer goes well I might have to drop off a box full of frags in May

You comin into town in may

Yea. My wife's dragging me to an event and I'm meeting buddy who's buying my tank off of me to deliver it to him.

wow, im sorry to hear that....
Ive heard the same thing about the dry rock, & Ive been talking to a Florida company about a very large shipment of live rock & sand, fresh from the ocean. just waiting to hear back about the flight cost... hopping to have it in my hand for under $4 lb...

sorry for bringing back up a sad event ....
but with a new fish was it QT? what would have you done different?
Im just trying to learn from what happened as thats a very big tank to have that happen into.... my next tank is going to be the biggest Ive ever had, and after reading your thread im going to try to talk the wife into giving be 6' of the living room, then I could probably almost double the size of the tank i want...
My next tank is it, the last one... trying to do everything right even if it takes a long time to do...

thanks

I was always the person who said no more fish but bought that one more, it's part of the hobby and learning I have had a few tank crashes from equiptment and human error and basically a matter of time it seems. I am very fussy now about purchasing fish only from other members after they answer about 100 questions. I didn't really leave room in my fish room for a qt setup as I never really had dont it i tried it but never had great success at it. The best advice is study the fish at the store for colour, activity, behaviour and how it eats. Look at all the fish in the tank or what else in plumbed into that system. I know what fish I added had it an remember when I saw it in the store thinking its a bit pale but its a finky rare fish I really wanted and it was just spooked.

Yeah the 6 foot is nice for swimming room and what not, wanted a 8 foot but didn't have the room in our house.

Well once my spending splurge arrives ill put some more effort into the tank it's just hard to go from a 180 gallon full Sps reef which was thriving to have to do a move and start from scratch after looses.

One of the reasons I went with dead rock and sand was I wanted the tank to be pest free the last tank I started with second hand rock and I was haunted by crabs, worms and all sorts of other plagues. Ended up worth clove pylops and star pylops everywhere too so I wanted to start fresh.

WOW that totally sucks Wes sorry to hear this, your tank was so amazing the couple times I got to see it in person.

That's why we kept low well be back, have the pictures to keep us going, just need to clear up this algae issue and well start again. I am missing my t5 lights tho I think ...

One main reason I am investing in some big battery back ups just in case of a power outage.

Well yeah actually looked into one of those natural gas generators