Starting over for the worst of all possible reasons

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I have heard people say that its heartbreaking when they have a tank crashwell now I know thats one of the biggest understatements Ive ever heard. Complete and utter emotional breakdown is more like it. About a week ago I came home to a tank that hadnt had any circulation in days. Only the movement from the return pump. As Im sure you can guess, that resulted in a complete loss of life to everything in my tank. There really are no words to describe what that looked like. I futilely tried to save a few of my fish and coral, but they were too far gone. I have no one to blame but myself. I was testing out the Jebo 25 I bought only to realize it was too strong for the area i wanted to put it. It was late at night and I was leaving out of town in the morning, so I disconnected it and went to sleep. I didnt realize I hadnt turned anything back on until I got home a few days later. It was like walking into a nightmare. Thank goodness my son was around to help with the cleanup.I initially was gonna take a break, but honestly, I couldnt get my tank off my mind. So I plan to start again; I bought a couple pieces at my lfs today. With that being said im now looking for a few reasonably priced frags to get restarted. So anyone in the IE or LA area that has a deal or 2 let me know. Thanks
 
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am really sorry this happened to you. its hard to see one of our pride and joy be gone so fast, after we spent so much time and effort into it. but dont be to hard on yourself. this happens to the best of us. just for thought look into getting a controller for your tank. that way you can double check everything is ok.

Hope you get back up and running real soon.

Best of luck.
 
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Very sorry to hear. It's one of my worst fears to walk into my tank like that. I have had many dreams about it. scary stuff.
 
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That really suck i had a breakdown just about 3 months ago its hard but there is help out there i have some free frag of my ring of fire and could get some other ones pm me
 
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I believe coral obsessions has a free frag Wednesday event just about every Wednesday. . Plus I'll make sure you get a few extras. ..

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Sorry for your tank crash. But am I missing something? Did I read it wrong but didn't u say your return pump was on still? So u were still getting water movement from the display tank to the sump then back to the tank?
 
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yeah..usually it should be ok with the return pump running. I still have good circulation with just my return pump.

Emac909 said:
Sorry for your tank crash. But am I missing something? Did I read it wrong but didn't u say your return pump was on still? So u were still getting water movement from the display tank to the sump then back to the tank?
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Thanks everyone. I will be in touch. Im just going to take it slow.
Yes the return pump was on but it wasnt enough. I had several anemones that went and im guessing they caused some kind of toxic domino effect. I have gone over the "how and why" a thousand times in my mind.
 
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