How not to build a 750/1500 gallon build thread-Khaosinc 3/5/71-8/30/11

WOW, amazing read! Good luck to you Kevin and here's hoping someone will take that monster off your hands and keep it going. Get well!
 
I've read this post from the beginning...Please take care of yourself dude. Life is too short. Looks like its time to regroup, recompose and recover. I wish you well. When this tank is sold, i think that you may find a huge weight has been lifted off your shoulders..
 
princesuhaib said:
Lets get a FTS!!! :)
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'I haven't cleaned the sides of the tank in a month... I can't even see in the tank.

As of tonight I am home for better or worse. Sounds like I may not be back to work for a couple months so selling the tank is an imperitive. Might even trade for a nice cab over camper set up. Be a nice back up place to live if anything else.

I'm off to get to sleep in my own bed with my own dogs for the first time in a couple weeks...
 
dude, what? you're home? how'd you pull that off? i hope you can get a peaceful night's sleep. please tell me the docs let you go and you didn't just sign out ama.
 
Glad to hear you are back home! I am sure your dogs were very excited to see you coming home from what Tink said earlier about them waiting at the door for you when your truck came home and you didn't. Get some well needed rest and let your four legged animials love on you. :)
 
Wow!!! I am really glad to hear that you are home! Sorry to hear about having to sell the tank, but your life really is much more important.
 
I just found this thread a few days ago and feel like I know you all. I have not posted due to the fact that I'm several months behind and haven't made it to the end yet.
I want to first say thanks to Khaos and Tink for sharing your lives with us"¦ Sometimes I was laughing out loud and other times I would fight the tears.
Now when I got to post #1131 (I think) here I had to chime in. K, maybe you already have something for this by now or maybe this just another reason to tear things up with the broadsword and sawzall.
khaosinc said:
I'm still kicking.... Don't worry People have tried harder than the docs have to kill me and I'm still here. Besides, now I have to prove them wrong.

Didn't get near enough done this weekend. Ripped out my water change set up because I didn't like it. Still working on the new one. Finally mounted all the frags I got like a month ago. Lost a couple in the frey due to falling off my makeshift frag wrack, but the rest of the zoas seem to be kicking. Didn't get as far as attacking the fuzz on the glass, so I'm afraid pics will have to remain pending.

Riddle me this... how do you create a 200 gallon water change station, and still have room to move in a small fish room?
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Really simple idea maybe not simple to do"¦
What if you had your 250 gal RO/DI water tank above the 750gal main tank??? This would mean building a real sturdy stand. Then you just let gravity work for you"¦.
NOW I HAVE TO FINISH THE READ!!!!
 
khaosinc said:
'I haven't cleaned the sides of the tank in a month... I can't even see in the tank.

As of tonight I am home for better or worse. Sounds like I may not be back to work for a couple months so selling the tank is an imperitive. Might even trade for a nice cab over camper set up. Be a nice back up place to live if anything else.

I'm off to get to sleep in my own bed with my own dogs for the first time in a couple weeks...
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glad to hear that your home!! Nothing better than being back home!! At least there saying you can actually go back to work now, thats alot better than saying you can never work again...... And dont you dare try to clean the glass on the tank, lay back and get some rest!!!! You are a freaking soldier for going through all that crap over and over and over again...... You are a true inspiration to many of us!
 
dogs are the best its like they know how you feel and react to it in the best way almost every time. this whole week when i was sick with bronchitus my st. bernard "pup" 10.5 months old 110lbs" would come lay right next to me. k dont you have some smaller tanks you could use after the big one is sold?? i have to agree with CoralFiend who suggested keeping some reef setup for therapy reasons. every one in my family will go watch may tank if theve had a stressful day. keep kicking, id buy you a drink if i was old enough. dang american drinking age laws :P
 
I just finished the whole thing...

I just finished the whole thing...

I don’t know what to say, I just finished the whole thing... I cried and laughed, K you are an amazing man. This thread your story has really touched me I really want to help maybe someday soon I can.
I posted yesterday for the first time and this was before I got to your most recent visit to the Hospital. Man I have to admit you are one tough SOB, I really like your attitude you just seem like a great guy.

I work for the government and live overseas, I’m due to come back to the states anytime now and during this thread I really considered moving to a place near you so I could help out. I even spoke with the wife today and asked her if she would like to take a motorcycle trip when we get back and help out for a few days.

I think selling the tank is best you really need to work on getting back to normal if you have a normal side. Fooling around with the tank is a great way to relax but in this case I think it is too much, for the obvious reasons… Hmm, seems like I’ve heard that statement a few times.

I’m not big on hugging grown men but I feel in this case it would be appropriate… big hug for You, Tink, Family and all your animals.
I hope the person that buys your tank keeps this thread open, I’m sure everyone would love to see it finished. On another note if you do sell it you will have to get it out of your fish room/ garage and that is going to cost money. I really don’t want to stress you out and I know you don’t like the PayPal thing but in this case I feel you should accept help if people offer it.

We love you brother and please take care and keep us posted and please let us help you.
 
I am glad you are home and on the road to recovery! You've got one helluva support team...thank you for sharing your tank, I have enjoyed reading it all. Good luck to you and God bless!
 
I am assuming they sent you home and you didn't just decide to check yourself out? Ordinarily, one would assume that you got released, but considering who we are dealing with here, I am not sure.

Take care of yourself and I hope you will recover well enough to go back to work that soon. That would be awesome!
 
they did in fact check me out. I did strongly encourage them as I don't take being confined well. I was back in for testing today. I still feel like hell, and still haven't been able to deal much with the tank. I'm finally making some new top off water, so I should have everything back in check by morning. (the joys of needing 50 gallons a week just to top off the tank). Have one lead on a new home for it, see if they are serious or not.

It doesn't look like work is going to let me go back to work this time so I have no idea what to do at this point. Just system overload.
 
Well, glad you didn't break out. It's amazing to me that you able to go home that soon.

Just take it one day at a time. You have to heal up first and foremost. You have an incredible woman, a great family and all us fish geeks out here pulling for you now - and dogs!! It's a hell of a setback, but nothing you can't handle.

Good that you already have a possible bite on the tank. Hopefully they will take it off your hands and you will have one less thing to worry about. 50 gallons of fresh water a week? Wow! :eek2:
 
First time poster in this thread, took me days to read the whole thing.

Hang in there buddy, you've no idea how many people's hearts this thread has touched.
 
I'm sure you don't like the Hospital K but if you were here in Germany they would have had you locked in the hospital from day 1.... anyone from Germany wanna confirm this.

You have been through a lot and still need help so you can relax a bit. How are we in the help department?
Please put the PayPal link up.

I for one can't help out in another way so if giving some money would help please accept it.
 
glad to hear you're home with approval. sorry to hear about the work issues. i know when i got out of the hospital and had the huge bills to deal with i went into a sort of system overload too. just take a step back and a huge breath and start breaking it down into manageable sections. control what you can when you can and be willing to let go of what you can't. all the best, man.
 
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