dcsorrell
Active Member
Best Luck: What's the luckiest thing that has happened to you in this hobby?
Worst Luck: What went terribly wrong in spite of your best efforts?
"Sheer Dumb Luck:" What went right even though you made a whopping big mistake?
Here are mine:
Best Luck: Two freshwater friends who had gotten into reefing called to tell me to get out my other aquarium (was sitting in the attic) and clean it up, because they were on their way with live sand, critters included, in a bucket of saltwater, and those little lives depended on it. Shoot, I couldn't say "no" to that, and thus began eleven magical years of reefkeeping.
Worst Luck: Losing corals after my T5 fixture died, and I didn't really know how to program my new led light to keep them healthy. It took too long to find out how, so I lost all my lps - a beautiful fox coral and also my green hammer corals, as well as a really nice stand of silver xenia.
"Sheer Dumb Luck:" I'd been extremely busy, between teenagers, two dogs, aging parents and part-time job. We had had an overnight power outage, and I'd forgotten to check the Aquaclear filter I was using for extra water movement. Three days later, I realized it wasn't running, and because I wasn't thinking, I unplugged it, added water, and plugged it back in. It happened that some months earlier, I had moved a few very small rocks into it from the display area into the filter for temporary storage, and (fortunately) the little life forms attached to the rocks had kept the water in the filter from going bad - amphipods, micro brittle stars, a couple of tiny bivalves, all happily feeding on whatever came through. Kinda makes me want to start a jar reef... maybe...
Worst Luck: What went terribly wrong in spite of your best efforts?
"Sheer Dumb Luck:" What went right even though you made a whopping big mistake?
Here are mine:
Best Luck: Two freshwater friends who had gotten into reefing called to tell me to get out my other aquarium (was sitting in the attic) and clean it up, because they were on their way with live sand, critters included, in a bucket of saltwater, and those little lives depended on it. Shoot, I couldn't say "no" to that, and thus began eleven magical years of reefkeeping.
Worst Luck: Losing corals after my T5 fixture died, and I didn't really know how to program my new led light to keep them healthy. It took too long to find out how, so I lost all my lps - a beautiful fox coral and also my green hammer corals, as well as a really nice stand of silver xenia.
"Sheer Dumb Luck:" I'd been extremely busy, between teenagers, two dogs, aging parents and part-time job. We had had an overnight power outage, and I'd forgotten to check the Aquaclear filter I was using for extra water movement. Three days later, I realized it wasn't running, and because I wasn't thinking, I unplugged it, added water, and plugged it back in. It happened that some months earlier, I had moved a few very small rocks into it from the display area into the filter for temporary storage, and (fortunately) the little life forms attached to the rocks had kept the water in the filter from going bad - amphipods, micro brittle stars, a couple of tiny bivalves, all happily feeding on whatever came through. Kinda makes me want to start a jar reef... maybe...
