well think about the carpet you ripped up if you did and installed flooring if they did cutting in the house for the laminate. I had some floors done too and my 65 gal. I lost some fish to along with had some drywalling done too that day.

holy...
I'm in the process of moving my 72...
scary stuff.
I would love to know wht you think if anything you could have done differently as a preventative?

Really sorry to hear about your losses....

The cutting of the flooring in the house would be my guess for the deaths. Allthough the tank remained in the basement and was sealed off from the rooms getting work done I am sure now that particulate from the laminate got in the tank. The surface looked a little scummy. I am still baffled as to why the nem and the clams made it when a fish like my sixline (that has survived a couple tank moves and a carpet surfing stint) did not.

If I had to do it again I would take the livestock out of the house all together. Get them into a babysitting set up at another home.

Getting the big tank set back up was a pain.. it takes a bunch of work to get the plumbing back in sand and rock and water filled. The big tank was still murky but I decided that I would get all the remaining livestock back into that tank rather than risk them staying in the tank 'o death for any longer.

good on you.
Man, moving tanks is risky even for the very experienced.
Wish I'd planned my initial tank placement better.

thanks for the insight.

So the rest of my SPS is dead. :(

I give up on stony corals.. just not woth pumping the money into them only to have them die. I am going to stick with clams/LPS and softies from now on.


So I need to think about restocking the tank with livestock:

All I have left now :

Purple Tang
Firefish
1 Chromis
Neon Goby
Sleeper Goby


.. I'm thinking about just doing one living mass of chromis.. like maybe two dozen of them. That way when I kill of my livestock again I am not crying over the death of expensive fish :p

Sorry to hear that, Greg. I hope you can get it into a comfortable operating range and enjoy it again.

if it was mostly fish loss it could have been lack of oxygen.

That's crappy to hear about greg...

If anything this has gave me a renewed interest in my tank. Over the summer I have not paid too much attention to it. Other that water changes and feeding I have not done much. Now that the basement is just about finished it gives me more of an excuse to spend time in the basement. And my little daughter is really excited about fish so it should be fun to play around again. Now to start heading back to the stores to restock :)

I think most would agree that looking at a perfect tank is fine but the real fun is in the building and tinkering and just plain getting our hands wet.

Sure I enjoy looking at the results of my work but I get more glee from mucking about and even breaking things. :wink: