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[Danno666]

I am sory to add this as yet another death in the family story, but I am so frustrated about this loss. started a 120 a little over a month ago and transfered all of my corals from the 75 that I had before. The tank looked beautifull. That was last week. I now have a tank with nothing but a couple of fish and a ton of snails. I lost the brain, frogspawn, kenya trees, paylas, star polups, candy cane, torch coral, leather,and about 15 different zoa colonies. I did have a small path of brown zoas(yea for browns....better than nothing for now) and a couple of mushrooms that are trying to make a comeback. I hope that there is a lot of frags up for adoption or sale soon. This will not be the end of the hobby but it sure hits hard on the whole family. Apparently shrimp don't take temp changes well either. Well any how, I look forward to starting over again and have a generator in the basement ready for if this crap ever happens again. I guess the generator did no good in the garage collecting dust.

 

[waverz]

That sucks man, atleast you have time to re-cycle your tank and get it ready for the frag auction in a cpl months. Start saving your pennies.
Just be thankful you didn't loose EVERYTHING. Sometimes starting over can be a good thing....

 

[Danno666]

Is it necessary to get new live sand to to dress the old live sand?????

 

[IowaKevinK]

generator

generator

"have a generator in the basement ready for if this crap ever happens again. I guess the generator did no good in the garage collecting dust."

What does this mean? I bought a generator after all the people here who lost power ect. I haven't even test fired it yet but, plan to, and then leave it in the garage until needed. Were you not home to switch over or something?

sorry about your losses

kevin

 

[Danno666]

I had the generator in the garage but did not have the thing fired up for about 2 years or so. It runs great now........... I was not home when we lost power and by the time I was home, the power was out for about 36 hours or so.

 

[got2lb]

Do you guys have power back yet? My mom lives in Mt. Auburn and haven't heard from her since Monday night if she got power back.

 

[Danno666]

Power is back on here but Newhall and Mt.Auburn have a LOT of poles still down.

 

[Atticus]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9357723#post9357723 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Danno666
Is it necessary to get new live sand to to dress the old live sand?????

You are not going to like this answer, but you may be better off getting new sand. That now dead sand has a lot of nitrates/dead critters trapped in it.

 

[glaspie69]

Yeah I would have to agree with Atticus, I wouldn't use the sand and I would probably cook the rock also. Sounds like a PITA but your rock will be pest free, and your sand will be fresh which will help remove alot of problems down the road

 

[Danno666]

I put in a 50 lb bag of crushed coral for now and I just ordered 60 lbs of live sand Yeee ha for starting over

 

[glaspie69]

You did take all the old sand out first correct?

 

[Danno666]

The old stuff is sitting in a big rubbermaid trash can for now. I will get the crushed coral sifted out in the sprin when the weather is nicer and save it but I figured that the live sand is worthless.

 

[Danno666]

Live sand is to arrive tommorow, weather permitting. Do you have a 1 month turn arround time on live sand bed before another brain????