Have any of you ever lost it???

[fido19]

I know most of you have been in this hobby for years if not a decade. But has there been a time where you just lost it and just wanted to punch a wrasse or a clown in the face
i will start

About a year ago my 6 month old tank was doing well and i was using a Toms aquatic ps2 sump with skimmer (it was decent) but then one day out of the blue it died on me. First the skimmer went out and then slowly the motor for the sump. Now as any sane individual would do i started pulling my hair and tried to figure out what was wrong. i gave it a few minutes and an hour **** didnt work
2 hours later i opened it and found out that the motor was clogged i laughed it off and cleaned it. After putting everything back i turned it on and it worked for about 15 seconds and i hear this loud pop and smoke coming out of the sump. It was done, shot to hell, so again as any sane individual would do i took the pump outside my house put it on the floor and started hitting it with a hammer broke it into pieces and walked away

For about 4 days i was without any form of filtration being a newb at that time i was worried and kept changing the water every day(my back has never been the same again)

Anyway i have come down to an eheim canister filter for now (i live in an apartment with hardwood floor, cant get a sump) it works great keeps my parameters in check its good
so why don't you guys tell me one of your stories where you just lost it

[Mrfish55]

I have a High Fin Snapper that I would love to pan fry and turn into sandwiches, that SOB has eaten nearly 1k worth of fish.

[fido19]

that made me lol hard

[toytech]

Come home after work and find 55 gal of fish soup thanks to a busted heater , need i say more.

[fido19]

that one is a little horrible toytech how much did you end up losing
i have had my share of busted heaters
you would think that by now they would actually come out with a good quality one that actually works properly

[toytech]

I was actualy lucky most of my fish and all my coral survived but i still lost a blenny , goby , and 2 wrasses .Im buying a reef keeper lite next week so that will never happen again.

[Leah]

Originally Posted by Mrfish55

I have a High Fin Snapper that I would love to pan fry and turn into sandwiches, that SOB has eaten nearly 1k worth of fish.

Did it eat them all at once?

[asylumdown]

The closest I came to abandoning the hobby was when everything failed while I was on vacation. M auto-top off pump kicked it on the first day, and I got a call a few days later from the house sitter asking why my tank looked like a jacuzzi. Over the next 8 days, a bunch of pumps failed, and a heater broke. I had to diagnose all of it over the phone with someone whose knowledge of fish extended no further than 'food goes in the top'.

I came home to an alkalinity of 4, 80% coral loss, and needing hundreds of dollars in replacement equipment.

[spit.fire]

Spend 6hrs drilling a 90g breeder for a herbie, closed loop, built the overflow, plumbed it all went to bring it into the house and lost my balance and shattered the tank

[SanguinesDream]

Originally Posted by spit.fire

Spend 6hrs drilling a 90g breeder for a herbie, closed loop, built the overflow, plumbed it all went to bring it into the house and lost my balance and shattered the tank

I am so sorry.