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very nice!

Unbelievable patience Marc. I would have told them to send me a new tank, and taken that one out in pieces. The expense and skill required just to box it up!

Sad to see but had to be done.Hopefully Marineland will make this a priority job!

WOW! I know this had to a very difficult day for you... Best of luck! My offer on the SPS's still stands.....

Oh, BTW.... I laughed out loud on some of the pictures!

Now the long wait begins...longer for you than for us, I'm sure

lol, it does appear that Marc needs to have a garage sell.

Glad to see it went well. Hey, the inside of your garage still looks the same. LOL

No, it was moved way out of the way to protect it from damage, Midnight.

The livestock is okay.

No idea. It has to travel to IA, then be assessed, taken apart, rebuilt, cured, and water tested, then ship back. I'm expecting 8 weeks, but who knows.

Good that it's going back to Marineland.Probably no idea of turnaround time though?

good luck with a smooth move. how is the livestock faring?

Carl

Heeve ho, and good luck. Hmm I don't see my sump, must of moved out of the way for safety!

Venting is good sometimes...clears the bad out. Just hoping to encourage a fellow reefer. Relative beginners in this hobby (myself included with only a couple years experience with saltwater) can learn alot from how the more experienced handle things. For example, having never kept anything but mushrooms and xenia, I probably would have let the suncoral melt away not knowing what to do to save it, but you knew and shared. Now I know what to at least try.

Seriously, thanks for all you share, good and bad.

I'm just venting - don't take every word I type as 100% factual. There's plenty of times I smile, but the bigger picture of having to start all over again is aggravating. Check my new blog post in a minute or two.

Again I am truly sorry for your bad experiences, but glad you share. It may sound cliche, however I believe, it's not how a person runs a tank when everything is going well that makes them an advanced aquarist, but how they handle the bad things. Though it may not make you feel any better, how you're handling all this adversity is educational. Hang in there, I'm sure it'll turn around. You've had beautiful tanks in the past and know how to get back there.

Yeah. I had a recent RA member remind me that I need to be posting more, but it seems like I only have negative stuff to share.

Talk about a run of bad things happening. What's most impressive to me is that you've been prepared and known just what to do in each case. Sorry to hear about all the stuff going on, but glad your sharing. If the rest of us can learn from it, maybe there's some consolation.?

Wow I'm sorry to hear tat.... Hang in there buddy We all no wat it's like to lose precious inhabitants ��

Wow, gotta love natural nuclear warfare

I had one Mp40 running on the battery back up for about 16 hours before I realized it wasn't plugged into the generator's power feed. This was all set up to be much easier when the 400g was running, but with stuff moved over to the 215g, it got complicated.

Two things that I never got done last year, and still need to be accomplished:
1) The emergency power box wired correctly - this would allow me to run the generator to the power box, so the six circuits in the fishroom would have power and avoid running cords under doors and across the floor.
2) The generator's muffler - this would allow it to run inside the garage where it was safely protected and run far more silently, exhausting outdoors to avoid toxicity issues from carbon monoxide.

Here's my article on generators: http://www.reefaddicts.com/content.p...tect-your-reef

Did you get the chance to see how long your vortech battery backups ran for? I just snagged an MP40 and two battery backups (not sure if I can put two on one pump or not yet).

Great example of good reef keeping there. Not many would be so prepared to handle such a situation. :-)