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| Restart your tank |
   
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47 | 48.45% |
| Take a break and consider your options |
  
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21 | 21.65% |
| Quit and store your equipment |
  
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2 | 2.06% |
| Quit and sell or give away your equipment |
  
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8 | 8.25% |
| Move on to a new hobby |
  
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1 | 1.03% |
| Cry and yell a lot |
  
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18 | 18.56% |
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03-18-2019, 05:36 AM
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This has been the past year,I miss the good times. I have had small crashes befor but December 2017 we Hosted a Christmas dinner one of my nephews put a batterie in my Ato thousands lost and years of work. It was to late when I found it. I restarted late December 2018 it has been a painfully restart so much algae I miss the days when sps were a pain to keep trimmed. Business has really taken a toll on me lately I need some luck from the reef gods
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03-24-2019, 04:37 AM
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Restart.
I would also begin keeping very accurate journals of changes within the water chemistry. Tracking any things I added to tank and hoiw much and when. Would no longer add ANY cure type additives such as liquid phosphate removers etcetc. If I added calcium chloride I would only add two part, and if possible dose Kalkwasser at night. 10 percent water change each week. Oh and I would attach an alarm to the aquarium lid! Sorry to hear bout that. -Les
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03-24-2019, 09:56 PM
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With a new baby on the way, if I suffered a catastrophic crash of any of my tanks, I'd probably shut down and sell off that tank setup. However, I have 8 tanks of various types & sizes at home and another 5 setup at the local elementary school, so it would just be a small downsizing, rather than a quitting the hobby type of reaction.
Anthony
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04-07-2019, 11:02 PM
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When my 250 SPS blew out and I lost everything it took me over a year to start another tank. And 6 months of running to add anything into it.....
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06-26-2019, 07:11 PM
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I had a couple of crashes when I was first starting out, the first one was due to adding addtional fish without qt'ing first, the second was when i used a sponge to clean my tank that was not supposed to have any antibacterial on it, but later when I called the company they said it gets done on the same assembly line as the antibacterial ones, and is not aquarium safe (would have been good to know that beforehand). Both crashes had me really ****ed off with each one costing me more money wise, but I learned about patience and got right back into it.
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RSM 250. Clownfish, Fox face, Blue tang, Yellow tang, Kole tang, Clown tang, Coral beauty angel, French Angel, splendid dottyback. CUC, softies, lps, sps.
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