Have any of you ever lost it???

[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.

[fido19]

yeah i am getting a reefkeeper lite(L1) too

[MarkoD]

i use to lose it everytime i saw a fish bug my moorish idol.

any fish that did got removed from my tank and the entire species banned

[fido19]

i used to do that with my blue tang but then the fish back stabbed me and killed two of my gobies (i dont even know how)

[reefgirl189]

I wouldn't say "lose it" but I did get pretty upset with myself over the first fish that died in my care.

This was back in my freshwater days in grade school. I lost a clown pleco. I think I grieved for that fish. It all seems so silly now in retrospect.

[tt101]

Originally Posted by reefgirl189

I wouldn't say "lose it" but I did get pretty upset with myself over the first fish that died in my care.

This was back in my freshwater days in grade school. I lost a clown pleco. I think I grieved for that fish. It all seems so silly now in retrospect.

haha this is so similar to me, i also cried and sobbed all day when my first fish bowl of goldfish died......dropped it while trying to clean it and it shattered with goldfish flopping everywhere.....bad bad day

[fido19]

Originally Posted by tt101

haha this is so similar to me, i also cried and sobbed all day when my first fish bowl of goldfish died......dropped it while trying to clean it and it shattered with goldfish flopping everywhere.....bad bad day

the sad thing is my first fish was killed by my room mate sob overfed them and polluted the water. being a newb at that time i really didnt know what to do

[chandigz]

While waiting for a buddy to come help move my tank I decided to finally rid some rock of the ugly brown palys that were taking over. I put on my gloves and glasses and proceeded to rip the little bastards off. I had a great idea. I would run the rock under really hot water to kill every last bit of tissue that was left. Little did I know that the palytoxin was becoming aerosolized and I was breathing it in. Within minutes I was developing a bad cough. We quickly moved the tank and my buddy left to go to work. By this time (1 hour later) my lungs were on fire and I was feeling really bad. I sat down on the couch and the next thing I new it was 12 hours later. I was sicker then I've ever been and completely delirious. I managed to crawl on my hands and knees, stopping and laying on the floor a few times to make it 12 feet over to my buckets of fish and tubs of coral and dump them into the tank. I then lost conciousness again and struggled in and out of conciousness, completely delirious, barely able to breath, with the most intense cold sweats, nausia, shakes, till the next day. At some point I made it to my bed. When I finally was able to function I knew by the smell of dead coral that I didn't want to look at my tank. Complete wipe out!!! Over $6000 in coral and livestock dead. Worst of all I poured 7 of the nicest croceas and maximas(these were like ultra plus) and 2 rhizo coral down the sink. Loosing these hurt the most as they were basicly irreplacable. I wanted to cry. I wanted to kill. I wanted to smash. I yelled and screammed at the top of my lungs even tho there was know one around to hear. Everyone experiences a crash at some point I told myself. But why me? Why now? Why not when I just started and why now when I was fully stocked? I had to keep telling myself to look at the positive side that at least I was alive and now there is a lot more real estate to put stuff or I probably would have completey lost it and smashed everything.

[fido19]

chandigz i don't know what to say man i am really sorry for that huge loss man its not small but dude did you actually crawl out of your bed and then dump your corals into the tank (respect bro), everyone of us has had a loss one way or the other but you know i think we all have done well, we learned from our mistakes(hopefully)
but hey thanks for sharing your story

[chandigz]

Ya. I crawled hand and knees from my couch to the tank. 12 feet. I had to stop and lay down several times. It took me a while. It took everything I had to try to save my live stock. I only had enough energy to dump it in before I lost consiousness again. All my coral and clams were in tubs for over 14 hours and were now in a pile at the bottom of the tank. I figure this led to chemical warfair and a domino effect which led to the whipeout. I had just about every symptom for a fatal palytoxin poisoning. I should have been in the hospital but I live alone so there was no one to save me. I'm really lucky to be here to be able to tell my story and warn people not to try to get rid of palys with hot or boiling water.