wanna know what a bad night is????
- Thread starter DJ88
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I think you offended the saltwater by quitting the Navy. This is a great opportunity to find out what your girlfriend is made out of. If she whines and swears there will never be another reef in HER house then dump her. If she just sighs and suggests its a great excuse to buy a bigger tank then she's a keeper. Either way, good luck to you. Navy guys can handle a little water.
Well here is the lowdown... Updated....
The stand was what failed. Dropped the tank and broke it. Thing is I was moving it to her place tomorrow. As I am moving. She was keeping it here so I could look after it. I do have a larger tank in the wings.. lol. are you kidding.. it's like any toy. You always are prepared to go bigger.. LOL
120 is on the floor in my dining room as we speak.
The losses are as follows.
- 80 lbs live sand.
- Critters in sand
- Bangaii Cardinal
- Black brittle star
- BiColor blenny.
- various snails(presumed KIA)
MIA (found!!!!!)
- Pistol shrimp(found alive) and watchman goby.
G/f's pride and joy.
Good news.. Watchman has been found hiding in a rock alive and well.
Injured
- Cleaner shrimp that sat on the floor from 11pm till he was spotted at 3:30am. Little bruised but alive.
- CB Shrimp missing lots of legs. kinda walking around on two and a half.
- stressed out pair of Percula clowns and peppermint shrimp.
- Large saddleback anemone. looking ok.. not sure yet tho.
- Solomon island cuke. isn't moving very much. Alive, but.
- Various cuts and abrasions on hands from glass.
lastly... My pride. very injured.
I had a brand new stand for her and was swapping them tomorrow during the move.
And I guess Neptune is p*ssed. A shellback is leaving his domain. I shouldn't have been gloating about it.
the stand was a creation of mine. So the fault lies there. I had made is very sturdy( I thought at least). looking at it now tho I see that the screws I used weren't strong enough to hold that weight. Many of them sheared right off. like a pair of bolt cutters had gotten them.
I am amazed at how many were saved. All thanks to my next door neighbours. They heard the tank fall and shatter. Got a hold of the weekend landlord and cleaned up probably 80% of the water with a carpet cleaner. All the fish were thrown in with my fish in my 33. Interesting seeing a pair of perc clowns in with a pair of maroon's. Don't you know they moved to the sump pretty quick.
Only two fatalities. One at the time and one later. Shock I guess.
Gonna miss them.. Talk about personality. A Bicolor that would take runs at the percs trying to get them to move their anemone away, and a bangaii that thought the outlet of the skimmer was a male and regularly dropped eggs in it's "mouth"
RIP guys..
[ August 19, 2001: Message edited by: DJ88 ]
The stand was what failed. Dropped the tank and broke it. Thing is I was moving it to her place tomorrow. As I am moving. She was keeping it here so I could look after it. I do have a larger tank in the wings.. lol. are you kidding.. it's like any toy. You always are prepared to go bigger.. LOL
The losses are as follows.
- 80 lbs live sand.
- Critters in sand
- Bangaii Cardinal
- Black brittle star
- BiColor blenny.
- various snails(presumed KIA)
MIA (found!!!!!)
- Pistol shrimp(found alive) and watchman goby.
Good news.. Watchman has been found hiding in a rock alive and well.
Injured
- Cleaner shrimp that sat on the floor from 11pm till he was spotted at 3:30am. Little bruised but alive.
- CB Shrimp missing lots of legs. kinda walking around on two and a half.
- stressed out pair of Percula clowns and peppermint shrimp.
- Large saddleback anemone. looking ok.. not sure yet tho.
- Solomon island cuke. isn't moving very much. Alive, but.
- Various cuts and abrasions on hands from glass.
lastly... My pride. very injured.
I had a brand new stand for her and was swapping them tomorrow during the move.
And I guess Neptune is p*ssed. A shellback is leaving his domain. I shouldn't have been gloating about it.
the stand was a creation of mine. So the fault lies there. I had made is very sturdy( I thought at least). looking at it now tho I see that the screws I used weren't strong enough to hold that weight. Many of them sheared right off. like a pair of bolt cutters had gotten them.
I am amazed at how many were saved. All thanks to my next door neighbours. They heard the tank fall and shatter. Got a hold of the weekend landlord and cleaned up probably 80% of the water with a carpet cleaner. All the fish were thrown in with my fish in my 33. Interesting seeing a pair of perc clowns in with a pair of maroon's. Don't you know they moved to the sump pretty quick.
Gonna miss them.. Talk about personality. A Bicolor that would take runs at the percs trying to get them to move their anemone away, and a bangaii that thought the outlet of the skimmer was a male and regularly dropped eggs in it's "mouth"
RIP guys..
[ August 19, 2001: Message edited by: DJ88 ]
- Location
- Virginia
Wow, I bet you didn't think you'd get relationship tips along with sympathy for your loss of tank. Looks like you said it was her tank, though, so not sure why everybody is getting on her case.
- Location
- Virginia
Wow, I bet you didn't think you'd get relationship tips along with sympathy for your loss of tank. Looks like you said it was her tank, though, so not sure why everybody is getting on her case. Watch out for the cucumber, though. If it dies, they can be toxic, so you may want to separate it.
any idea what caused it?
do you have another tank to put the rock and inhabitants in or are they all dead now?
i am sorry about that man. i worry about my system failing alot too. i just need a better setup and i would worry less.
so now what? bigger tank? another 30gal
at least it was only 30 and not 55 or 120gal!!!
i feel for you man!
later
Lunchbucket
do you have another tank to put the rock and inhabitants in or are they all dead now?
i am sorry about that man. i worry about my system failing alot too. i just need a better setup and i would worry less.
so now what? bigger tank? another 30gal
at least it was only 30 and not 55 or 120gal!!!
i feel for you man!
later
Lunchbucket
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