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I cannot find another IM 200 tank leak anywhere. I am leaning towards using the IM tank again. I think they are good tanks.
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That sucks! Your reef was thriving with those huge colonies too. It's good that you were able to save a lot of the corals and all the fishes. That will make restarting much easier and palatable. You can get a thriving reef back up much faster than if you had a complete wipe.
Not going to lie, if my own tank leaked, I may just throw in the towel. I have just too much invested right now, I don't even know if I could restart emotionally and financially without taking a break and saving up. It's good that at least IM honored their warranty and you got a brand new tank. I would use the replacement IM tank as it's probably just a fluke leak, and it cost you nothing more. Another $10K to get a custom tank, that's hard to swallow.
Not going to lie, if my own tank leaked, I may just throw in the towel. I have just too much invested right now, I don't even know if I could restart emotionally and financially without taking a break and saving up. It's good that at least IM honored their warranty and you got a brand new tank. I would use the replacement IM tank as it's probably just a fluke leak, and it cost you nothing more. Another $10K to get a custom tank, that's hard to swallow.
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The thought of giving up has crossed my mind. Then I walk in the garage and see the fish and corals and it would be hard to see them go. Having been through a leak once before actually helps a little. I just wish the large acros would have survived. It will be another 3-4 years before my new tank looks anything like the old one. Long wait but patience is what is needed in this hobby.
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Sorry about what happened. This hobby is not for the faint of heart. That being said, this is a stressful thing to read for me as my IM 200 ext shipped this past Friday! I have a bit more wait as it's being shipped to my freight forwarder in Miami to be shipped to the Caribbean. Double chances for issues. The freight forwarder does insure it though so no issues with losing my money. Fingers crossed. Looking forward to your new build. They do seem like great tanks from all I've read so I'm looking forward to starting my own build.
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I wouldn’t stress it. If the pallet was damaged then the tank took a hit. Just one of those things. It will be easy to swap everything over using the same tank. Sorry though. Nobody wants to deal with all of that loss.
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Thx. Looking forward to the future reef
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Didn't need to. Caught the leak within minutes. Almost no water on the floor. Rotating towels behind the tank kept up with the leak for the 5 hours it took me to empty the corals, fish, then water. I think I'll give IM another try.
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Well, here we go again. Part 2. Movers took out the old tank and brought in the replacement tank. I decided to stick with the innovative marine replacement tank. I really want to trust this company. Time will tell. I rechecked the stand to be sure it is level and it is. I had lots of my prior rock "cooking" in a brut 44 gallon trash can so I moved all of them into the tank with heaters and wavemakers.
As I mentioned before, the black backing used to cover a lot of the rear sides of the tank. They removed most of this now. As a result there is room to put an MP40 on the side/back left as pictured. It seems to hold a lot better than the MP40s did on the rear wall. I think the black backing is what causes the MP40s to fall off the back a lot. I will likely place my 2 MP40s on the L side and R side walls and not on the rear wall this time.
I will now:
1. redo all my electrical stuff.
2. build the avast marine kalk stirrer I purchased just before the nightmare began (increasing salinity became a big problem for me. I am hoping if I use kalk as a baseline supplement and then the 2 part on top I will not have as much of an issue with increasing salinity. My only concern is that I will now be adding less trace elements since I dose Tropic Marin A/K with my BRS alk/calc. I may reach out to Tropic Marin and ask if I can increase the concentration of A/K. I was using 330mL of each A/K per gallon of Alk/calc before. I met Lou Ekus at the reefapalooza in Orange County. He was really helpful and will likely know what to do). @Lou Ekus maybe you can chime in.
3. build all my rock work and place sand (once I get some sand and salt from my BRS order-just ran out).
4. start moving over rock and corals from the 3 garage tanks currently running.
5. move over fish once all the rocks and corals are set. Not sure what to do about the tangs. The yellow tang used to beat up the desjardini tang. It was really bad so I caught the yellow tang and placed it in the garage for months now. I might try them again adding them all at once. The blue tang has also been a punk to the desjardini tang but not as bad as the yellow tang was. Maybe adding them all at once to the new tank will work. Time will tell.
As I mentioned before, the black backing used to cover a lot of the rear sides of the tank. They removed most of this now. As a result there is room to put an MP40 on the side/back left as pictured. It seems to hold a lot better than the MP40s did on the rear wall. I think the black backing is what causes the MP40s to fall off the back a lot. I will likely place my 2 MP40s on the L side and R side walls and not on the rear wall this time.
I will now:
1. redo all my electrical stuff.
2. build the avast marine kalk stirrer I purchased just before the nightmare began (increasing salinity became a big problem for me. I am hoping if I use kalk as a baseline supplement and then the 2 part on top I will not have as much of an issue with increasing salinity. My only concern is that I will now be adding less trace elements since I dose Tropic Marin A/K with my BRS alk/calc. I may reach out to Tropic Marin and ask if I can increase the concentration of A/K. I was using 330mL of each A/K per gallon of Alk/calc before. I met Lou Ekus at the reefapalooza in Orange County. He was really helpful and will likely know what to do). @Lou Ekus maybe you can chime in.
3. build all my rock work and place sand (once I get some sand and salt from my BRS order-just ran out).
4. start moving over rock and corals from the 3 garage tanks currently running.
5. move over fish once all the rocks and corals are set. Not sure what to do about the tangs. The yellow tang used to beat up the desjardini tang. It was really bad so I caught the yellow tang and placed it in the garage for months now. I might try them again adding them all at once. The blue tang has also been a punk to the desjardini tang but not as bad as the yellow tang was. Maybe adding them all at once to the new tank will work. Time will tell.
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