Anyone else throw money away recently?

[Lavey29]

I got a couple tiny SPS frags delivered today from one of our well know vendors. They must charge by the millimeter or something because it's to small to go by inch standards. Anyways, I remove the plug from the tiny coral and I'm holding it in the water against the rock where I intend to place it and I drop it. So I watch 80 bucks plus shipping float into a rock crevice where there is no way I can ever retrieve it. I offered the shrimps payment but they refused to bring it out for me. What a wonderful way to start the day. Now I have to go fill my truck gas tank too.

 

[blaxsun]

Only every time I leave my LFS with something I later kill.

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

I got a couple tiny SPS frags delivered today from one of our well know vendors. They must charge by the millimeter or something because it's to small to go by inch standards. Anyways, I remove the plug from the tiny coral and I'm holding it in the water against the rock where I intend to place it and I drop it. So I watch 80 bucks plus shipping float into a rock crevice where there is no way I can ever retrieve it. I offered the shrimps payment but they refused to bring it out for me. What a wonderful way to start the day. Now I have to go fill my truck gas tank too.

Yeah. Sry but lost some stuff recently too. Feel the pain. Taking a break after RAP NY. Looking for a clam and done.

 

[PR_nano]

Had a nice mushroom carpet surf while cutting the frag plug stem. Put it back but eventually perish.

 

[Sean Clark]

Anyone else throw money away recently?

This is one of my specialties. I am quite good at it.

 

[Blumy]

Been there done that. Had a snail knock a Walt Disney into the abyss overnight once.

 

[Lavey29]

Been there done that. Had a snail knock a Walt Disney into the abyss overnight once.

The abyss, that's the name I was looking for. Now I can only hope one of my urchins comes out wearing it as a hat.

 

[afrokobe]

i lost basically all my euphyllia and a lot of my acans to a bjd outbreak from a wild torch import. Learned my lesson there...

also lost all my fish due to velvet when I first started the hobby. you can say I am pro at wasting money

 

[Lavey29]

i lost basically all my euphyllia and a lot of my acans to a bjd outbreak from a wild torch import. Learned my lesson there...

also lost all my fish due to velvet when I first started the hobby. you can say I am pro at wasting money

Unfortunately almost all reefers have experienced one or the other too.

 

[chipchipbro]

Lost almost all acros due to an accident with a seahare… The seahare sprayed ink into my 20g tank and everything was purple.

RIP

 

[Woodyman]

The abyss, that's the name I was looking for. Now I can only hope one of my urchins comes out wearing it as a hat.

Since they went to the Abyss, does that mean @blaxsun has them all now!?

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Is It possible to flip the rock and shake it? Lol
I recently bought a six line wrasse for $20 and a domino damsel. Both juvi. Maybe 1/2" big...but my toadfish deff ate the wrasse. Idk about the domino. MIA though.
D

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

My large 5-6" purple tang wasn't havin the wrasse. Was chasing him down like a ****. Tang hit him a cpl times and than chased him into the corner with the toadfish and well that was that. Lol.
Watched the whole thing.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Mother. Was chasing him down like a mother. Ty r2r. Sorry my apologies I didn't know I couldn't say that.
D

 

[mindme]

I almost threw away a bunch of money this past week or so.

Some of my coral haven't been looking their best recently. Not as in dying off, just not as plump and thriving as I'm use to. I thought maybe it was vanadium(maybe is still part of it) levels being high.

2 days ago the oddest thing happened. Suddenly my inkbird alarm went off, saying my tank was over 82 degrees. I'm freaking out, can't figure out why, and then suddenly it goes back down to normal. Did it again yesterday, I can't figure out what is going on.

I figured I would give it a good cleaning before buying a new inkbird, assuming it was going bad.

Turns out, my temperature probe wasn't where I thought I put it. The temperature probe I thought was the inkbird probe was actually a temperature probe for my ph probe. My inkbird temperture probe was in the section with the pipes from the overflow, not easy to see.

It had come out of the water barely. The temperature in the cabinet itself was apparently around 77-78 degrees. So it was kicking the heater on, but not low enough to set off the low temp alarm. The high temp alarm was going off because it apparently got just wet enough from the actual water to give a degree, but then it would quickly go back to what I thought were normal.

Moved the probe to where I thought it was, and made sure it was under water. Tank temp was 83 degrees.

That could have gone much worse very easily.

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

Yup. Bought some gorgonians last week, my former gold spot rabbitfish was apparently hungry. Gorgs and rabbitfish are gone now.

Before:

After:

 

[kdx7214]

Yup. I bought a Creality Ender 3 3d printer. Piece of crap.

 

[shakacuz]

Yeah. Sry but lost some stuff recently too. Feel the pain. Taking a break after RAP NY. Looking for a clam and done.

see you there!

and yes, i threw money away recently. i consider my mishap with an ALK swing and losing a few sticks and others currently RTN/STN'ing on me as reason to participate in this thread.. wasn't able to dial in my consumptions/dosing in time. still kind of working out the kinks.. my clam is an ALK sponge, as well as my garf bonsai.

 

[afrokobe]

Yup. I bought a Creality Ender 3 3d printer. Piece of crap.

thats surprising as that is one of the most highly recommended printers. Any reasons? I have a resin printer, but been debating getting a fdm one so I can print reef stuff

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

Yup. I bought a Creality Ender 3 3d printer. Piece of crap.

I was gonna buy one, literally had it in my amazon cart. Good to know!