Holy CRAP! I'm not sure I want to know how that happened, but I'll bet folks are wondering now ....

The worst we ever experienced was the loss of a couple of gallons out of our old 75 gal due to a skimmer problem. Lucky the tank was on lino, or we'da been really upset.

Yeah, I've never trusted anything but hang on back filtration, or plain old powerheads with prefilters that I clean at least once a week. I'm a low-tech, hands in the water reefkeeper, that's for sure :cool: The most sophisticated piece of equipment we have are the timers, and DH keeps them going. Oh, and we just got a magnetic glass cleaner. I guess that's pretty high-tech for me, too :rolleyes:

I really feel for ya Brad, sounds like a stressful day to say the least.
Are you planning on growing some mushrooms down in the dark, moist basement now?, if so I'll take 10 lbs of shitake and oysters :mrgreen:

cheers, Rich