[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by reef_raf

unless someone with a lot of money and a truck shows up at my door.

I got the truck part

At any rate considering I had a huge let down in the last bit maybe I should put a cents worth in.

My loss was fast, and in the end it covered 99% of the fish (got the fox face to a LFS just in time) and 100% of the hard corals (which for argument sake was my entire tank)

this wasn't caused by an unknown problem, but rather an equipment failure (heater) I did seriously consider for about 4 to 8 hours just packing it in, and continued to do so as I watched everything "not recover" over the next 3 days, but I decided to redo it. My reasoning behind staying in Salt is simple, after I got over the initial upset I realized, how many people get a chance to start all over. to change bad fish decisions, or sand bed decisions, or coral choices in type and placement, well this was my chance. Another thing is once you get your tank up and established for all practical purposes you are done. I find the most satisfying part is building up to that point, as after that it is just something to look at.

But I also look at the other problems and in a way I am glad mine was sudden, I was totally devastated for about 1 day, upset for another one or two then that faded to oh well. but for some one who has been fighting a problem for a year or two with out making progress it is worse as you are continually beet down by the problem and get no sence of closure.

This hobby can be a roller coaster ride and it is not for the fien of heart or wallet. All it takes is a heater to stick and 2000.00 to 3000.00 worth of corals is gone overnight.

Steve