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My list starts here.

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4069/4...3c50ed7f_z.jpg

This was my first heart breaking loss. Got it as a two polyp frag from he-who-likes-to-frag-a-lot. Grew it out to a nice massive colony. Quite a conversion piece. Then it slowly melted away :sad:

Not even going to bother to list all the other because I eventually got numb to all the losses after this first one.

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Originally Posted by ScubaSteve (Post 839237)

A, I've got a couple.

1) Purple Poison Shortcake - Lost this just the other day. I have a LED 14g biocube that I've been growing SPS in like weeds, so I figured I'd take the PPSC out of my main tank and stick it in the biocube to see what would happen. Ya, well we had a temp swing, tank hit 84 and the PPSC went kaput.

One of my favorite pieces in my tank

I lost the tequila sunrise blastos I got from Denny. It was growing great lots of new babies. I decided to frag it cut a couple heads off and within a week it was gone :(

When I changed from my 180 to my 26 cube I lost all my deep water acros.
I was most upset over this one
http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/...1/12c98be7.jpg

This is the other meaning of lost ...

I picked a very small frag of Setosa from Rich and had it for less than a week
It was glued to the LR and twice I found it laying on the sand
The third time it was knocked off I looked for it for over an hour. It simply vanished :surprise:

Walt Smith Pectinia. It was a big one.

Three mouth Bleeding Apple Scoly. A $20 Milli frag fell on it and stung it real bad. I tried my best to save it. I couldn't get any of the mouths to feed because they were too damaged.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k4...uly2920112.jpg

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k4...ept4201110.jpg

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Originally Posted by Rice Reef (Post 839307)

I had lost virtually every piece of sps back in Feb due to AEFW. Some nice pieces and don't see anywhere nowadays while others were acquired as expensive frags ...
Ones I have missed most...

Wow, I would be more than crying, if I lost those... That AEFW scares the crap out of me...

Haven't lost any really expensive ones,... yet.

But was a little peeved when overnight I lost an ice blue favia when my sun coral got too close, It was 2 inches away, but not enough. In the morning, one of the sun coral polyps was still stretched way over, like it was trying to devour it.

And I lost a nice orange chalice just a couple days after I bought it. I had it too high, and looked a little bleached after the first day. After the second day, started seeing some skeleton sticking through, and by the third, just skeleton left, even though I moved it down the day before.

I thought a valida acro frag died that I got from Rich. Looked dead for a couple months (but I didn't throw it out). And then saw a polyp appear, and then another, and another, and now it's doing nicely, and coloring up, too.

But no 2 or 300 dollar corals for me,... yet. Sure would hate to lose one of those.

Brain, lost him to a gall crab.