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Old 07-27-2006, 10:48 PM
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Well I got back from holidays I had fun, lots of sun! But.... I come back to see that the heat wave we had claimed almost all my coral! I guess the house and the tank got too hot. No fish died but almost all SPS, all my LPS...Done!!! Very discouraging!!! not sure what I want to do now. Just thought I would throw this outthere to encourage people to buy chillers!!!!! I know if I continue I will.
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Old 07-27-2006, 10:50 PM
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Dang man. Sorry to hear. Hit me up if you want some frags.

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Old 07-27-2006, 10:58 PM
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I will need to hit up alot of people!!!!
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Old 07-28-2006, 12:13 AM
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Sorry to hear that ,I know how you feel I went in early july and the "same" thing happened to me ,my neigbour told me it was cooking in my place when he fed the fish, and I lost ever coral too except a mushroom.
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Old 07-28-2006, 12:26 AM
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Aww no So sorry to hear Russ!

I hope this doesnt discourage you from sticking with the hobby!
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Old 07-28-2006, 01:55 PM
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Oh man that sucks! How did the basement stuff make out.
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Old 07-28-2006, 02:47 PM
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Sorry to hear about your loss, that makes me nervous about leaving for 3 weeks next week!

I got a temperature controller for my holidays so that if my tank gets too hot, it will kick off any devices I want, so I am going to power down my skimmer pumps, heaters, and lights until the tank cools off enough, then they will come back on.

And if you go on holidays during the summer, I would put a couple big ass fans blowing over the tank and use a water top off system, if you don't have a chiller.
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Old 07-28-2006, 05:42 PM
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The sad thing is that I had a fan blowing at the tank/sump.
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Had the same thing a few years ago which prompted me to buy a chiller. My father in law said he'd never watch the tank again until I bought one!

Sorry to hear about your tank. Come by this weekend, I've got lots of stuff I can give you.


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Sorry to hear man.. that sucks.

I just got back from holidays only for a week... but what I did was have my lights kick on at 5am and off at 130pm . Everything looks great and the tank did very well.. yay.

The heat is a SOB in the summer... but if you can switch your lighting cycle around a bit, it helps a lot.,
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