I hope not and with the additions of safety equipment (generators, water top off etc) we are able to cover off for some of the possible catastrophes. I do believe that even with our day to day diligence we will still suffer loses even some seeming to be unexplained. One of our most major problems is to be able to maintain our daily (tweaking) routines that ensure the attention to detail necessary to maintain the level of our salt water environments. When we become busy with family or work or go on holidays our tanks become vulnerable. We usually ask one of our family members to watch over our tanks. We even set them up with backup help from our most trusted friends with the reffing community, however this is still not the same as the constant attention that we put into our tanks on a daily basis.

Tom R

I said yes, only because we are using equipment that can fail. the only major loss I have suffered is from a heater that failed on.

Steve

Repopulation of acros is already happening in the state of Florida and captive bred clams are being placed in the oceans around Australia and south east Asia. These are not for the aquarium trade. Once introduced into their natural enviroment, they have the ability to reproduce,therefore repopulating themselves.

I'm saying no because, even though I've experienced two tank disasters, I don't think everyone's tank is bound to suffer major disaster at somepoint or another. I'm sure there are far more hobbists out there who have not experienced a crash, rather then those who have.

Agreed, Catherine. That's why I voted no.

However, I do believe in spreading around frags of all your favorite pieces, kind of like an insurance policy.

I've suffered through a couple of tank crashes myself and wouldn't put it past me to have another one. I don't have the greatest luck and even though I *think* I have my bases covered theres always that one thing that I don't think of.

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I my self in my 10 years experience with keeping saltwater fish and corals have never experienced a major crash. I have had some losses like everyone else but I don't like to tempt the all mighty or taunt him. I would preffer to be humble and try to cover all my bases. I don't think its possible to cover it all but I try. I have a spare pump for my latest 210, spare heaters for all my tanks and spare filter parts for all my tanks. Given the area that I live in and even the weather conditions outside right now (high winds) I have a generator and soon a 20,000$ (managed to get it for free) upc backup system with inverters that will provide enough juice for 12 hours to run my tanks. I had three power outages last year one 3 hour, one 16 hour and one that was 36 hours. Anyone remember the problem the city of Vancouver had with the water turbidity last year due to run off. I would like to see how your water purification systems would like that. They would probably plug up pretty quick.

Long story short I think that no matter how hard we try to cover all our bases its that one thing you don't think of that will bite you in the end maybe not tommorow or next year but it is going to happen sometime in the span of your life.

Thanx

Sean