The Gods must be angry
 

Well once again, I come home to a dead tank, could have been worse.. how I am not sure.. it would seam before I left for holidays I was filling up the top off to make sure it was full so Brad wouldn't have much to do.. well our plans changed and I ended up leaving 15 min early and forgot about the water as it was before the timer went off.... so when Brad stopped by 3 days later to feed the fishies and such he called me and asked if there should be a river flowing out of the garage... to make a long story short Brad ended up sweeping the water out of my garage and adding salt to the tank in an effort to try save something.. I can only hope some of the bugs in the rock made it but everything else didn't.. guess a fresh water reef won't work after all.. oh well its a good thing I didn't have much in there except my Brain and about 200 bucks worth of new frags from Safari.

Steve

Aww man that's awful. Easy mistake to make I guess.

crappy
 

very sorry to hear Steve. thats pretty crappy to have happen twice in two years.

Heck even once in two years would suck major...well we know where I'm going with this.

shucks Steve.. that a tough one to take.
I'd be thankful that happened now while there wasn't much in there yet.

What rotten luck. Hopefully you can salvage the rock. Sorry to hear that Steve :neutral:

What happened exactly, so others can learn from this unfortunate occurance and not make the same mistake.

Its not just about luck, I'm sure a series of timers and/or float switches could have been used to prevent something like this.

Lets figure out a system so it can't happen again

nothing that fancy, it is a temporary tank holding 60 lbs of rock 4 corals and a clownfish while I clean out my big tank, it has only been running for 3 months or so and every week I turn on my RO (with out the booster pump) for between 1 hour and two hours to top off the water. well I was topping it up and had the timer set but we got messed up and left before the timer went off so I forgot to shut it off. Plain and simple stupidity.. my main tank has a float valve top off system that has worked flawless in 4 years with only a 5 min cleaning every 6 months.

Steve

Still sucks to hear!!!

Thanks guys, ya it has been a string of events and I probably really should have done this at the same time as the last one but the tank came back so I didn't want to inter fear with it..

The rock is the main concern as I can get frags easy enough, but I think after it re-cures all I need to do is buy a new hunk of rock (or borrow some ones sump rock for a month or so) to reseed the rocks... I have to look again but the big pee off is all the coralline is probably gone off the rocks.

Steve