Epic Build, The 750 monster

[marie]

Originally Posted by Mrfish55

Got home from work today, lost the Aussie Tusk and the male Blue Chin Trigger, the 10 hour power outage looks to be taking it's toll despite running back-up gen and monitoring everything till 4 this morning, a few others are looking seriously stressed and I have a number of sps in the reef looking pretty questionable, kinda sucks as the reef was really starting to turn around.

Oh geez , If you need a place to keep stock until your back on track, I have a 60g cube tank with no fish at the moment and lots of sand bed space in the big tank for corals

[Mrfish55]

Originally Posted by marie

Oh geez , If you need a place to keep stock until your back on track, I have a 60g cube tank with no fish at the moment and lots of sand bed space in the big tank for corals

Thanks for the offer, I will do a water change tomorrow and give things a few days to settle down, tank is looking a little cloudy right now, I will run some tests tomorrow to see what I can do. Sad part is I was home and able to get the gen going right away, makes you wonder what would have happened if I wasn't home.

[The Codfather]

Sorry to hear, but it's just a bump in the road. Things will turn around, I don't want to hear any more nonsense of a tank for sale. Your too far in now to let something like this discourage you.

[christyf5]

Aww that sucks!! I hope things look better tomorrow!

[lastlight]

Sorry to hear that. How can the power blipping off for a few minutes do that though? Does that mean you can't for example shut the return off a few minutes to clean a pump? Doesn't seem to add up?

I don't recall pictures of SPS in there. So this will be a full reef?

[Mrfish55]

Originally Posted by The Codfather

Sorry to hear, but it's just a bump in the road. Things will turn around, I don't want to hear any more nonsense of a tank for sale. Your too far in now to let something like this discourage you.

Too far in is an understatement! I am sure everything will straighten itself out, they went thru much worse on the move, must have been the dip in temp as I could not run heaters without tripping the gen.

Originally Posted by christyf5

Aww that sucks!! I hope things look better tomorrow!

So do I, power has allready gone out twice tonight, just came back on, thought we should be good after last night but looks like another long night.

Originally Posted by lastlight

Sorry to hear that. How can the power blipping off for a few minutes do that though? Does that mean you can't for example shut the return off a few minutes to clean a pump? Doesn't seem to add up?

I don't recall pictures of SPS in there. So this will be a full reef?

Power was out for 10 hours, tanks were without power for about an hour while I was getting the gen and extension cords set up. No corals in the big tank, I have a 300 reef on the opposing wall. I did not do anything different than other times I have lost power and never encountered problems before, must be one of those tests to find my breaking point! Thinking a newer larger gen is in order so I can run everything. On a positive note, the kids got to sit with a flashlight and watch clown babys hatch out last night, with all the pumps off and no circulation they all gathered around the light, looked to be a few hundred of them.

[lastlight]

Now that's magical!

Hey with a tank that size you have no breaking point anymore. Taking it out I think would be a lot slower than your build.