I'm going to try and sell the entire system as a whole, if I can't get it done in the next 60 days, I will part it out.  

400 starphire Leemar - 

Canopy and stand - 

Elite Aquatics Sump - 

Vertex Reactor - 

Koralin bio-denitrator 

3 MP40's -

4 Radion Pros -

2 WP60's - 

2 DC return pumps - 

Reef Octopus DC skimmer -

Vertex Libra doser with dosing box - 

Neptune systems Apex, I'm into this around $1,000 - Would take $600 for all

Controller, 2 EB8's, PH probe, temp probe, Salinity probe with module, WXM, Break Out Box, Leak detection module with 2 floor probes  

Around 350lbs of live rock - 

I'm into the system North of 18K - 6 months up and running 

Text me for more pics - 801-five one zero - 9146

I'll still be on reef tour with it up and running. 

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Got it

I have a Moorish Idol, Copper Band and Gold Flake in quarantine. 

I have some inverts, but nothing major.  Crabs, Sand sifting stars, snails, Sea Biscuits (aka sand dollars). 

Now listen, listen carefully!!  Don't rush and make up your mind soo, soo fast.  Let the dust settle and after a month or so. throw in a half dozen chromis and see how they do for a month.  Your system is to die for, and really,,, you have just gone wayyyy Too fast in adding livestock.  Everyone can guess at what went wrong, or what disease your tank has, or this and that.. If you ask me , your bioload was too much for your young bacteria to handle.. period..You can have the fanciest, biggest , most expensive equipment money can buy, but if your biological bacteria isn't mature enough, or strong enough to handle a ton of waste and fish. IT WONT WORK.  Sit back and chill for a few days.  PATIENCE.... After the tour , regroup and think about it.  Start slow .......   DON"T GIVE UP!!!!!

How will you ever look me in the eye again if you quit. 

+100

Honestly, I thought I was going to get messages about selling the equipment, not about people telling me to stay in.  After Dion stopped by last night and talking to several of you, I will give it another shot.  

I was in meetings most of the day yesterday and I was ignoring most of you and started going through my texts and emails this morning.  I can't believe how many people reached out.  And for that, I thank you all. 

I was telling Dion last night, that I forgot about Brad's issue and then when I read his post I was thinking "How the hell do I even respond to him?".  The bottom line is, I can't.  Looking at what he went through, I guess this is nothing when you compare the 2.  

Thank you for bombarding my phone with the nice messages.  I have people messaging me from all over the place and  I don't even know who you are and have never met you.  

Thanks again you guys.. 

My phone this morning at 5 am

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High five for sticking it out! 

Can you tell me what you went through?  I've been having issues keeping fish longer than two days, except for the fish already in my tank.  My tank is still faily young (october).   If you want, you can text me at 208 680 1213.

Also, congrats on the goldflake.  That is an angel I think I would like to save up for.  They look amazing!

I froze the fish and sent them to a gal in Orlando who studies infections on animals.  Apparently I had got a rare nematode round worm from the local deli seafood department and fed it to my fish.  It caused an internal bacterial infection and killed all the fish I've had for months.  The infection itself was not super rare, but the nematode that caused it, was.  You can avoid it by freezing your seafood from the deli for 24 hours before you chop it up and give it to your fish. 

Now that is some good info.  Something that I have not been doing and will be doing from from now on.  

Just from your local grocery deli lol 

That's why she said if I was to do this a 1,000 times and try to replicate it, I couldn't do it.  

She initially thought that one of the fish gave it to another, but since I've had fish in there for months and fish that have been there for 30 days and since the nematodes were the same size, she threw that option out.  

Her next opinion was that I got a bad batch of fish and they all came in with it.  Cross Hatches I know came from Sea Dwelling, the Lyretails came from Live Aquaria (Quality Marine, not Divers Den), Gold Flake from AD (Most likely Sea Dwelling) and the rest came from Doug at Bird World.  I asked Doug about the Sea Dwelling order and hasn't ordered from them for quite awhile.  I did have 2 fish with it that came from Live Rock n Reef, but I don't think he orders from the LA stores, but I also did not ask him.  There could be a chance that all these wholesalers got a bad batch of fish from the same diver, but again, that is unlikely as well, seeing as how it's most likely 4 different wholesalers.  

Her last opinion is what she came to a conclusion with is Food.  I do feed lots of the ROE products in the bottles, but she said that it's very unlikely it could have come from those.  I've been to a couple Smith's, a grocer in Centerville, Harmons in City Creek, Chinese Market in Glen Dale and Whole Foods on 4th South in the last couple months.  She asked me "Have you heard of the perfect storm?".  She thinks that a batch of seafood came in with it and I got it before it was frozen.  She said that even refrigerated temps will kill it off, but that's the only conclusion she came to. 

Since the nematode comes in small and goes into a worm form in about 30 days, she thinks it's linked to me feeding my Cross Hatches.  I was buying scallops, clams, fish, 2 kinds of raw shrimp and squid.  I would blend it into chunks and then put it into a tub in my fridge.  

She said it's highly unlikely that it was spread from fish to fish, because this nematode attacks certain organs first and unless a fish died and rotted in the tank and all the other fish munched on it, she said that it could not have been transferred like that.  Off the top of my head, I don't recall any fish dying.  There could have been some anthia's, but I'm usually pretty good at keeping track of who is missing. My Naso will poop and the Tangs would eat it, but the Naso is the 1 of the last 3 fish I have left that didn't get it.  

I just sent her another batch of fish yesterday and she will get it this morning.  I'll let you know if she thinks of anything different. 

It took a good year to recover and get it back and going.  Electric, you're welcome to swing by anytime. The tank looks amazing right and it's getting pretty full.  Actually, just ripped out and tossed a bunch of the cheaper SPS and making room for some nicer rarer pieces.