I had an amazing tank: 65g high with reef rock, anemones, corals (a few Aussie ones that were sweet), some exceptional fish (a few that would eat from my hand), I designed and built the refugium by hand, I upgraded from T5 to 250wx2 halides, and everything was going nicely. And then the front seam split yesterday. I trashed the tank and took the fish and rock to the store. I'm done. Washing my hands of the hobby for awhile.
I learned a lot of good stuff, like never buy anything from Deep Blue ever again. It wasn't the tank that was wrong. The stand had a design flaw that allowed too much weight to be over too big a span. I just wish I had caught it before the mess happened.
It's very sad. I'm just going to take some time to get my head together over this mess. It's not the money or the time. It's the suffering of the fish from the entire situation. I had insurance on the office in case something like this happened so I'm covered. It's just ridiculous I should even have to tell others about it.
I also wanted to take a second to say thanks to all those on here who have helped me out as I went along. It's been fun.
I learned a lot of good stuff, like never buy anything from Deep Blue ever again. It wasn't the tank that was wrong. The stand had a design flaw that allowed too much weight to be over too big a span. I just wish I had caught it before the mess happened.
It's very sad. I'm just going to take some time to get my head together over this mess. It's not the money or the time. It's the suffering of the fish from the entire situation. I had insurance on the office in case something like this happened so I'm covered. It's just ridiculous I should even have to tell others about it.
I also wanted to take a second to say thanks to all those on here who have helped me out as I went along. It's been fun.
) to step back and think about it, will give you all the time in the world to come up with an even better tank, stand, design, aquascape, equipement list, layout etc. etc. than before. I know it's gotta suck as I look at my fish as my family and I have only had 2 die in my almost year in the hobby (one jumped, one eaten) and it hurt a lot. I hate being the epitome of snorkel bob's attack saying most aquarium fish die within a year which is so far from the truth in all reality. Anyways I hope that you can get everything you've ever wanted down on paper and make it a reality next time...here's to you coming back withing the year!!! 
