Kevin & Catherine, sorry you're having such rotten luck. Let me know if there is anything I can do.

Thank you for your support! Once things are back up and running I'll definitely be at your door for frags.


Things are looking stable now. The death toll stands at 6 clams, most of my SPS, and most of my fish too. I am most distressed over the fish and clams. Almost all my favorite SPS have died. Some still have flesh on them and I am leaving them in the tank, just in case.

I am heading out to buy some new heaters, more carbon, and probably live rock. I am also looking to pick up some of the bacteria we were talking about earlier. I need to do some clean up in terms of aquascaping, and then I will post up a few photos. I also need to pick up some green painter's tape so we can start marking out the potential dimensions of our new tank.

So a quick update just to keep this going. We suffered another crash earlier this week (http://canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=45772 and it was messy, horrible, and tragic.

We are still going to keep going with this, I am bound and determined to have a beautiful tank again to watch and enjoy.

I just wanted to update this thread to reflect what is happening with the tank as of today.

Glad to hear you guys are going to keep at it. After such terrible luck many would call it quits. Good for you! And GOOD LUCK!

I've used Hagen CYCLE on my freshwater tanks for years (though the label says you can use it on fresh or saltwater tanks), it is a great product and seems to reduce the time required for a new tank cycle by almost half. That is just my experience though.

The blue light from your actinic and 13, 14 K bulbs is affecting your camera. It is nearly impossible to get good colour rendition under these conditions... unless you choose to use Photoshop or some other image editing program that can alter the colour cast created by these lamps.

I read this thoroughly and think it to be a wonderful idea as a retrofit in a home! Natural sunlight has GOT to be the way to go... sunlight is free (unless you have to install sunpipes to get it) if unpredictable, you can't replace a good set of lights.

This is, of course, assuming that at that time I will be living somewhere that has some sunshine in winter. Not sure that something like this would work on the coast where it tends to be cloudy and/or rainy and/or foggy.

And since this is a REALLY old thread your tank is awesome and I hope one day to be able to have the success that you guys have had. Your tank is beautiful and an inspiration to people like myself who are just starting out in this hobby:D

Hey, just a thought, but could some of your fish deaths have been caused by parasites or some sort of internal worm or something?

Awe! Thank you.

Things should be well underway to getting back this weekend. I keep promising to do a photodump of some of the disaster, but I keep forgetting.

I'm also going to be making food tonight & tomorrow, so I'll have some photos of that process to share as well.

Really good to hear you guys are going to stick with it. I felt nauseous reading your thread this past week. I cant imagine actually going through a crash(never mind two) you guys are troopers. On to bigger and better things huh?