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reefstarter

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Well reefing has been fun for me . I started doing this about 11-12 years ago. I took a break for a while but I felt a draw back to it and for the last 3 years or so I’ve built a couple tanks and finally got a brand new 180 gallon tank from planet aquarium. Today …. The tank crashed . All my fish are dead . I’m not sure how the corals are doing since the water is so cloudy . I’ve done 2 big water changes of 75 gallons each I’d do more but that was all the water I had ready . I’m adding air being chopped up by powerhead. I thought there was hope when I saw the wrasse swimming around, 20 minutes later he was dead . I’ll be breaking the tank down and selling everything. I’m done throwing time and money at this .
 
Oh no! Corals might pull through on the bright side. What kind of dosing pump was it?
 
Low flow hydros one . Needs controller to dose . I lost WiFi last week, might be how this happened. It shouldn’t have because of how it was set up . Maybe a firmware update? Who knows
 
Dam that sucks! I have heard good things about Hydros but that definitely is not good.
 
I had a similar situation before but with all for reef, doser stuck on for a whole night and lost all the fish and inverts. But some of my corals pulled through strong (although a few bleached and died overtime due to instability). But don't give up hope! Some may survive. Sorry for your loss, doser failure is devastating.
 
That's awful. So sorry to hear this.
 
Sorry to hear about the crash. This hobby can be a kick in the nuts sometimes.
 
Sorry to hear this. FWIW, I use a DIY doser for Alk / Calc, where I started with a gallon of each available, but but soon starting keeping about 5 days worth available to dose just in case the arduino "goes out to lunch", line surge, salt creep short... whatever. Just didn't want to be exposed to any "single point failure" situations... like my own soldering.
 
Sorry to hear this. FWIW, I use a DIY doser for Alk / Calc, where I started with a gallon of each available, but but soon starting keeping about 5 days worth available to dose just in case the arduino "goes out to lunch", line surge, salt creep short... whatever. Just didn't want to be exposed to any "single point failure" situations... like my own soldering.
Yeah I didn’t think a liter or less would do much to a 180 gallon tank but it did
 
Wow, that's brutal! Sorry for your loss!
 
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