Why did your tank crash?

[falos]

Thanh386;798491 wrote: ... Are you guys still together?

<p style="text-align:left">yea its one of those hate hate relationships its kinda like being married to Kathy Bates but were not married and i cant run her off. if you seen the movie misery that about sums it up

 

[cedzaquaddiction]

Recovering from a crash myself. Went out of town for the weekend, and my GF came by to do some housecleaning and feed my fish. I told her to make absolutely sure her hands were clean and very well rinsed before feeding the fish. She won't fess up to it, but, I suspect that she had some bleach or pine-sol, or something on her hands when she fed my fish. I returned to a deat trigger, 2 dead tangs, dead blenny, dead cleaner wrasse, and two dying clownfish.

Can't get too mad at her. She was trying to help out while I was at a computer bootcamp. She won't fess up to it, but, she did say that she'll never touch it again. Ever fealt releived, pissed, confused, but sympathetic at the same time? LOL...

 

[dustin]

good thread. Ive never had a crash but Ive had bad temp spikes, like low 90's. I stressed the heck out of my sps and I had some tissue loss.

I think a good topic would be, whats the best most cost effective insurance against crashes. I think first you have to assume your home. If your remote then thats a tough one, have friends Temperature and water movement are key. I would say temperature more from a heater failure perspective. We could have an ice storm and lose power for days, hard thing to get around.

Water movement and getting oxygen into the water is something you should definitely have a plan for. Ive been thinking about building a small backup power source from some marine batteries. This should help run a pump or two in the event of a power failure, for extended periods of time.