Hey we non-Aussies are people too...sniff...tear
Sorry to hear about you tank. I'm just waiting for that day to come.
I wonder what the life expectancy of these tanks are anyway ?

This happened to me when I made my move from the 30 gal to the 75 gallon.
Ick took all but one Damsel. Of course that was fine with me
since I wasn't a fan of those nasty little fish anyway. I do miss the
fights !

Ha ! I'm quitting smoking AGAIN today.

Chris




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Hi all, long time since I was last here but I've been hanging out at an
Aussie Reef forum which is really way more applicable to me I guess. There
are some really nice people there and one even posted me some
corallimorphs and another sent me a nori clip, both of which are hard to
get when you live in the middle of nowhere almost. Just dropped in to say
hi to the regulars (Hi) and give a brief update.

My tank (6 x 2 x 2) sprung a leak in the front. I think it was a worm or
something. I don't know, all I know is that about a month ago I had water
dripping out fast enough that I had to do something.
Have a look at this
http://miskairal.goatdairying.com/ma...g0001cause.jpg

All stock was removed to my q tank and my spare 4 foot setup and 3 40
litre rubbish bins. Tank resealed and reset up about a week later
however...most of the fish are still in the Q tank because wouldn't you
know it - I'd bought a new fish (Gollum, an orange spotted goby or diamond
goby) just 2 days before it happened and had to put my sailfin tang, coral
beauty and 2 pyjama cardinals in my Q tank with it. That tank is only 120
litres I stuck the clowns and coral banded shrimp in the sump of my
display so they were right to go back in early as was the coral. My spare
4 foot tank had had an outbreak of ich (fish died) so I managed to not add
any fish to there, only rock. What a mess. Pretty stressful to the point I
had a single cigarette after giving up in June this year

All is Ok now. I never lost a fish and I didn't take up smoking again
All but one coral survived and that one probably didn't like me dropping
it in the sand!
Another thing I've done is I've also swapped over to using natural sea
water since September which I think has made a difference and works out
cheaper than buying salt.

Anyways, Hi to Wayne and TheRock and George and Pszemol and Don Geddis,
and Cindy and everyone I've missed. YOu may or may not remember me but I
can remember you all helping me at the beginning.