Re: ok...
Originally posted by Piero
Sorry for your loss Luis...as you said though, spending that much money on a tank and so many precious animals, living in hurricane country, leaving for the summer...... and not having a $300 generator? Such a terrible loss of life. I'm so sorry. Very tough lesson learned...
I hate to sound like a d...k in a moment like this, but I have to second Piero here. The first thing I noticed when I moved to FL only 3 months ago was that the power flickers and goes out for a few minutes here and there from time to time when there is a pretty good storm (almost daily?). I can't possibly see anyone with a half serious tank in FL without some form of alternate power.
Last year when hurricane Isabel hit NC, VA, and MD, I had to get a power inverter at 1 AM and connect it to my car to run a couple of pumps and heater. It ran for hours until I found another solution to last me for the next 4 days until the power came back
Not a single loss and I can tell you I had much more fish and corals in the 360g than you did in the 180g despite how tight it was.
You said that within a few hours only you had lost all fish and shrimp. I don't know what that tells you, but I can tell you what it tells me: your bioload in that tank was at the line of what it would support
I know you have been told this many times before and you get very defensive about it. It is your tank and you are free to do it however you want. This is one of the results though. There is another lesson for you to learn from this experience as costly as it is. You have to be self reliable to take care of the tank. You have said before many times that you don't wanna bother with doing or learning simple things like water changes, equipment maintenance, knowing how to troubleshoot things etc. because you rather stare at the tank. Well, this is the kind of thing you get as a result. If this was me, I can tell you I would be talking my wife through smoke signals from rural india if necessary on how to do whatever it needs to get done to get it going. I will venture to say most of us would do the same. Just consider this as food for thought: your entire reef tan could have been saved with 2-3 battery operated bubblers at $4 each.
I do feel very srry for the livestock lost. However, with enough money you will get them again from the same places. RM must be buying a round of beer for everyone at the party tonite