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[Beverly]

Originally Posted by reef_raf

Bev, the worst flood I ever had was losing 70g from a 90g tank that had no sump or refugium.

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.

Originally Posted by reef_raf

Next worst was losing 20g froma 45g tank running a fluval, no sump or refugium.

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 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