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Sherri
Sun, 25th Mar 2007, 12:59 PM
OMG! That hurts....
brieman
Sun, 25th Mar 2007, 01:02 PM
He has got to be feeling sick, I know I would!
erikharrison
Sun, 25th Mar 2007, 01:39 PM
that sucksssssssssssssssss
josephatmbimortgage
Sun, 25th Mar 2007, 01:57 PM
Thats sooo sad !!!!! I would have been crying if that happen to me, okay no I wouldn't cry but will be very depressed!!

-Joseph
LoneStar
Sun, 25th Mar 2007, 02:13 PM
WOW!

What a tragic loss....
SueT
Sun, 25th Mar 2007, 04:31 PM
this tank was one of the tanks I could sit and stare at and never get tired and always see something different. It is indeed a very sad day. Steve had some of the most incredible sps collections out there. Ones that are hard to grow hard to keep and he had massive colonies of them. I hope we all learn from this as he said it was something that was easy to keep from happening. You'd never think of this happening but it did and to one of the nicest mixed reefs out there.
Richard
Sun, 25th Mar 2007, 04:48 PM
That is terrible! This was one of the handful of tanks that actually made me say WOW!

To think this reef was lost from something as simple as not having an auto waste collector ($50) on the skimmer. It's just sad. I can't imagine how much he is beating himself up over it.
Texreefer
Sun, 25th Mar 2007, 05:10 PM
:( :cry
reefingood
Sun, 25th Mar 2007, 07:31 PM
ooooh man. one of my favorites!!! oh boy. :(
aprilmayjune
Sun, 25th Mar 2007, 07:59 PM
ouch. i would cry... for days probably.
Headless_donkey
Sun, 25th Mar 2007, 11:02 PM
No way! That is terrible! I tell everyone about that tank. It sucks when a tank that has inspired so many people has a problem.
Ram_Puppy
Mon, 26th Mar 2007, 11:20 AM
Man, Steve's tank has been an inspiration to me, I hope it doesn't kill his love for the hobby, he has been making huge break throughs in cold water aquaria.
Bill S
Mon, 26th Mar 2007, 11:22 AM
Richard - it looks like the problem is that he has his skimmer plumbed directly to a drain - and he lost the volume thru the drain. This project was actually on my list for my skimmer. Right now I have a 3 liter bottle in my sump - so that if it overflows, it just dumps back into the sump. Now I think I'm going to keep this arrangement!
LoneStar
Mon, 26th Mar 2007, 12:25 PM
Man, Steve's tank has been an inspiration to me, I hope it doesn't kill his love for the hobby, he has been making huge break throughs in cold water aquaria.

It looks as if he is sticking in there and going to rebuild. Just will take a little time to do. Its going to give him the opportunity to change up the aquascaping a bit.