Small downgrade with impressive story of survival.

[drksthr]

So I was forced to downgrade my main tank on the weekend. Moved to a new place Friday and was teetering on the idea of bringing my 180 to the new place.  After deciding it was a good idea I drained the tank Sunday morning at 1045am (the time is important here) packed all the rock in bins and put newspaper over top and wet it to keep the rocks moist. Caught the puffer, eel, 2 groupers, sergeant major, neon velvet damsel and cleaner wrasse.  Then scooped out all the sand, packed all equipment and drained the rest of the tank. Once drained and trying to move it and remembering how heavy it was I decided that it won't be coming with me and posted it on kijiji ASAP to get it sold. Brought all fish to the new place, set up heaters and bubblers to keep them going and searched for a new tank. I ended up picking up a 125g with stand brought it home and then went back to meet up with someone to pick up my 180. While there at around 6pm I realized I never caught my Picasso trigger. Figuring that 6 hours had passed there was no reason to rush home and find out which rock he crawled into.  Guy picked up the tank and then the wife and I went out to get dinner.  We got home around 8pm and I began setting up the 125g and as I'm putting the rocks in I find my Picasso trigger tail sticking out so I try to put him out but he's still moist and slippery so I put him in a bucket thinking he will slide out, still won't come out.  Give it a min and them slide him out and he takes off out of my hand.  I pulled the rock out and went to pick him up, he flopped around, spiraled and layed on his side.  I figured he was a goner but left him there. Finished setting up the rocks, put in about 60-70g of water I could salvage, put in RODI water I prepared and mixed and just put the trigger in the tank first.  He took off and hide in a crack on his side.  Acclimated the other fish and finally got them in at 3am.  Next morning the trigger was alive and feistier than ever! 

I then had a buddy drain my 72g reef and the fish in there I transferred I to my 125g minus the anemones, clowns, shrimp, snails and crabs.

Here's how the tank looks so far.
Actually loving this tank better than the 180.

 

[drksthr]

Tank is closed down.  Had a mishap and I'm done starting over.  Gave tank away.  Good luck to everyone in the future.  Happy reefing.

 

[Duke]

sorry to hear, take care. hopefully you get another running one day.

 

[harleymike]

Bummer. Sorry to hear

 

[TORX]

Sorry to hear as well. Tank was looking nice. Good luck in the future. Hope to see you around soon again.

 

[sunnykita]

sorry to hear this news, best of luck, hopefully you'll be back one day

 

[Jewel]

Ok but what happened, Tank crash?,Blew a hole in the tank?, won a million dollars/, You can't just leave us hanging?

 

[reeffreak]

Doesn't sound so impressive anymore ???



Sorry couldn't resist

 

[Poseidon]

His power bar fried shortly after the move and killed several fish,
He's had terrible luck since he started. Both of those sharks you read about before were eaten/died, had fish dying for no reason, etc etcetc, it's a shame he decided to throw in the towel but I can't blame him :/

 

[reeffreak]

His power bar fried shortly after the move and killed several fish,
He's had terrible luck since he started. Both of those sharks you read about before were eaten/died, had fish dying for no reason, etc etcetc, it's a shame he decided to throw in the towel but I can't blame him :/

Don't mean to start anything but .... There's always a reason, they don't just die. I'll stop there. Sad news, best of luck to him in the future .

 

[drksthr]

[quote author=Poseidon link=topic=6487.msg64416#msg64416 date=1381962409]
His power bar fried shortly after the move and killed several fish,
He's had terrible luck since he started. Both of those sharks you read about before were eaten/died, had fish dying for no reason, etc etcetc, it's a shame he decided to throw in the towel but I can't blame him :/

Don't mean to start anything but .... There's always a reason, they don't just die. I'll stop there. Sad news, best of luck to him in the future .
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My power bar shorter and fried all my equipment and I don't want to start over. Plus my tank then decided to start its cycle over again and I've lost a few fish.  My tanks have been pretty steady since may or June and everything checking out however my long tentacle anemone ate one shark.  Was trying to clear out my puffer and trigger from the 180 to at least get the other shark in there.  Had to go away on the weekend for a family emerg and came back to my other shark gone.    Just really frustrating and I know there is always a reason for something going wrong. My bad start was from not having a RODi system but that cleared up once I got one.  Just the power bar incident was the icing on the cake.  Ill still lurk the forums and maybe one day get the sw bug again but for now I'm done.

 

[drksthr]

...and the Picasso trigger is still going strong.

 

[reeffreak]

I can't  see a shark being captured by a anemone,  unless it was on its way out before then.  The shark should have more then enough strength to get away from the Nem and at most would leave with  sting marks. Just like a dying fish stuck to a power head. The fish didn't just  get stuck to the power head swimming by, it's because it was dying with no strength to get out of the Current.

 

[drksthr]

I can't  see a shark being captured by a anemone,  unless it was on its way out before then.  The shark should have more then enough strength to get away from the Nem and at most would leave with  sting marks. Just like a dying fish stuck to a power head. The fish didn't just  get stuck to the power head swimming by, it's because it was dying with no strength to get out of the Current.

The LTA is pretty big and I'm guess it got the sharks as it was crawling by.  They were by appearance and actions healthy and aggressive feeders so I'm not sure what was going on. Regardless they're gone and my tank is gone. I just found the one shark in the anemone. The 2nd I never found even when I tore the tank down and moved everything.

 

[reeffreak]

[quote author=reeffreak link=topic=6487.msg64495#msg64495 date=1382022525]
I can't  see a shark being captured by a anemone,  unless it was on its way out before then.  The shark should have more then enough strength to get away from the Nem and at most would leave with  sting marks. Just like a dying fish stuck to a power head. The fish didn't just  get stuck to the power head swimming by, it's because it was dying with no strength to get out of the Current.

The LTA is pretty big and I'm guess it got the sharks as it was crawling by.  They were by appearance and actions healthy and aggressive feeders so I'm not sure what was going on. Regardless they're gone and my tank is gone. I just found the one shark in the anemone. The 2nd I never found even when I tore the tank down and moved everything.
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Well when you start back up I hope everything goes smoother for ya next time around, I know some things are out of our control. Looking forward to a new build from you in the future.

 

[drksthr]

[quote author=drksthr link=topic=6487.msg64532#msg64532 date=1382042098]
[quote author=reeffreak link=topic=6487.msg64495#msg64495 date=1382022525]
I can't  see a shark being captured by a anemone,  unless it was on its way out before then.  The shark should have more then enough strength to get away from the Nem and at most would leave with  sting marks. Just like a dying fish stuck to a power head. The fish didn't just  get stuck to the power head swimming by, it's because it was dying with no strength to get out of the Current.

The LTA is pretty big and I'm guess it got the sharks as it was crawling by.  They were by appearance and actions healthy and aggressive feeders so I'm not sure what was going on. Regardless they're gone and my tank is gone. I just found the one shark in the anemone. The 2nd I never found even when I tore the tank down and moved everything.
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Well when you start back up I hope everything goes smoother for ya next time around, I know some things are out of our control. Looking forward to a new build from you in the future.
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Thanks. I appreciate that.

 

[Jewel]

Yes things happen for a reason, When you moved you should of known that your tank would cycle, Anyway lessons learned. I've been where you are now and you'll get back into it.Good Luck in the future. Jim