Has anyone just had to start all over again?

[craftytony]

I've had my nano running, but I'm hoping to restart my 210 within a year....probably in wall again

 

[Reef1589]

Before

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After

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Upgraded to a 150... <a href="http://s1113.photobucket.com/user/Reef1589/media/a5-3.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k507/Reef1589/a5-3.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo a5-3.jpg"/></a>

Middle Section

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Left Section of the Tank


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Another Semi FTS

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And this just crashed on me, due to the 150g blowing a seam, and transferring all the corals over to improper tanks.. a lot RTNed when setup in the new tank...


ya it sucks, but like others of said, a crash gives you a chance to do a "fresh start" and setup the tank differently, and maybe re-organize your plumbing to make life easier for you (did for me) just small things like that.. and also learn from your mistakes..

 

[MikeD]

How long did it take you to get back and re-setup after the crash? Was everything lost from the crash?

 

[Reef1589]

How long did it take you to get back and re-setup after the crash? Was everything lost from the crash?

Between the crash and finding a 150g and buying the new equipment, id say about 5-6 weeks before the new tank was setup, almost all the coral in the 75g died, except some LPS, but ALL my sps had died.. id say I had about 90% die off...

the reason for the crash was a a carbon recall... where there was strong amounts of copper in the carbon, did a water change, put fresh carbon in... woke up the next morning to that..

 

[MikeD]

Oh geez! When did this happen?! What carbon brand was it?!

 

[ostrow]

Fire. Destruction. Sad. Re-start.

But most folks know about that, and not really the re-start cause you are talking about.

 

[MikeD]

How is your tank rebuild going now? Would love to see pics of the comeback!

 

[Nxt]

I just had this a crash not to long ago... Did exactly what others said.. Broke it all down.. Redid it all.. Sucks but it is part of the hobby.

 

[StaySalty]

You guys who had huge crashes for one reason or another and restarted the tank have some serious dedication. As much I love the hobby, I'm pretty sure if something happens to my 92 and I can't save livestock, I'll be out for a long time.

 

[Reef Junky]

Lost my tank do to a timely power outage that lasted almost two weeks. This was 7 years ago. Four months ago I finally am re setting tank up. I don't have enough post to upload pictures but it is interesting how much has changed in the hobby. I no longer run mh or vho I have all led now. Still rocking my ac3 and tunze streams.

 

[svb57]

I didn’t have a crash. However, while this sounds strange but i started all over with my 300g because of overgrowth of Poscillipora. It was growing all over the place even on my clams. I was up to using two cups each of Two Part on a daily baisis.

I think I have found that the challenge of building the system is almost more fun than maintaining it.....