Came across this video of Devin from ReefDudes talking about his recent tank crash and thought I’d share it. Heartbreaking and depressing considering this is his first time experiencing a tank crash.
Tank Crash - Devin from ReefDudes
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It’s always so sad seeing someone’s tank crash!
exnisstech
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Very sad. I do appreciate the fact that he shared this on his channel and was honest instead of spewing a bunch of nonsense or worse yet pretending it didn't happen. To often I think YouTubers only share what they want people to see and even then I have my doubts about some of the content.
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I'm happy he did not poison himself. In several videos it looks like there was a massive infestation of palythoa, to me they appear as P.toxica (these were referred as "minty zoas"). Would be interesting to see the Organo-MS results.
Did see this also the other day, makes me re-think a lot of what i have been slowly planning on changing over to a larger system!
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This is probably the key to what happened. The tank crash happened during the middle of a tank move. Seems likely that the palys did not respond well to the transfer and ended up poisoning the temporary holding bin. I don’t think there are many other coral that could take out a system full of livestock so quickly.
I recently found some play hitchhikers on some ocean live rock I ordered. I immediately pull those rocks out and scraped off the palys. I am paranoid and did not want to deal with any possibility of play toxins down the road.
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That’s horrible. I had a similar experience here recently, but it wasn’t this severe. I went from a 9 gallon to a 25 gallon and had a hair algae and cyano explosion. Sometimes weird stuff happens. I am fighting through it and have lost around 10% of my corals and one tiger goby.
Brutal, love how honest he was in the video though. I’ve never experienced a tank crash. Would be heartbreaking since I go all in with every tank.
Agreed. His transparent honesty about the skimmer restored a little bit of my faith in YouTubers. He took total blame in my opinion.
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