What was your most expensive coral loss?

[justthewife]

Mine was a rock full of pink yuma's What was the most expensive coral loss in your tank?

[mkbtank]

This thread is going to be painful. For me, it was a tank full of grown Sps during a power outage. About 20 colonies at once.

[The sculpin]

Ouch!

[Nickh06]

Originally Posted by mkbtank

This thread is going to be painful. For me, it was a tank full of grown Sps during a power outage. About 20 colonies at once.

cringed when I read this....

luckily mine is small, lost two heads of Florida riccordiea to a hungry fish

[Allmost]

Ahhh ... Move ...

Went from :




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some made it, some Died at the LFS I was storing it at, some were sold at the said LFS most likely, and some I sold to Ripley's aquarium in Toronto. but overall, very sad to go home and look at the empty tank ... I will build it again though.

[DLANDINO]

I lost a pocillopora colony that I had grwon from a one inch frag to a colony that was 11" across and 8" in height. Figuring the coral to retail at about $30 per 2" frag this colony was technically worth $1000's. I have the skeleton bleached and used as a table centerpiece.

[KafudaFish]

Had my 5.5 gallon zoa tank crash.

At the time of the crash I had a single color morph with 2,852 polyps throughout the tank.

I paid around $5 per polyp for the small frag so carry the one .....

[pkirby]

2,852 polyps throughout the tank? You mean to say you actually counted 2,852 polyps?

[KafudaFish]

Yes. Doesn't everyone count their corals?

Originally Posted by KafudaFish

Here is October's polyp count:

8.19.12 10.27.12
Left wall 66 70
Top off 170 188
Left rock 0 0
Right rock 1310 1515
Lower rock 170 202
Left floor 78 80
Shell 30 30
Center floor 60 68
Right rock 371 391
Powerhead 42 23

Total 2297 2567
change 682 270

Back floor
Right wall 20 20
Rock 75 128

Total 2392 2715
Change 698 323

left lower wall 26 30
front floor 46 66
mangrove 6 0
PH curve 2 3
back wall lowest tunnel 30 38

Total 2502 2852
Change 733 350

If you notice the powerhead and the mangrove polyp counts decreased over the last two months. The PH decreased because the original frag came off the rock and became wedged against the rock floor and front glass. Though the frag suffered the remaining polyps have recovered and I expect the frag to continue to grow. The mangrove frag disappeared. This was the first frag that experienced die off.

Next week I will ramble on about a few things that I have been thinking about and will give a more detailed description of these last two months of my tank.

Thanks and enjoy your tank.

[pledosophy]

No, not all of us do LOL

[justthewife]

Originally Posted by Allmost

Ahhh ... Move ...

Went from :




To :


some made it, some Died at the LFS I was storing it at, some were sold at the said LFS most likely, and some I sold to Ripley's aquarium in Toronto. but overall, very sad to go home and look at the empty tank ... I will build it again though.

Even after your loss your tank still looks great!

[justthewife]

Any more? I am feeling not so bad now. Thank you!

[robs.mark]

Originally Posted by justthewife

Even after your loss your tank still looks great!

dude.... owch.

i kinda know the feeling, i just went through a move myself, and lost a heap and browned out the rest. Sucks

[robs.mark]

that was ment for Almost!

[ivar85]

Ouch