Your dumbest reef related move? Here's mine....

[Reef Supplies]

This happened right around 3-4 years ago. It was a nice tank, wall mount 120 LBS, mixed sps/lps with right around 100 lbs of live rock. I was doing a nice clean-up that day...the usual water change, topped-off my CR, phosban reactor...ect. The last thing I had to do was fill up one of the reactors with carbon, I had no time, so rather than waiting till the next day I decided to dump it into a sock and place the sock in my drain area of the sump.

The next morning when the lights came on my tank was black. Everything, rocks, corals, clams....overflow, EVERYTHING was covered in pulverized carbon dust! The sock got loose and ended up on the business end of my drain, so for 8-9 hours the drain was pounding the crap out of the carbon turning it into dust.

The recovery was very very long! I did not want to do a full tear down so I took my time. I lost most of my coral over time, the fish were not affected as they all made it.

My dumba$$ move!