Fragging Fail! What’s your worst reefing fail?

[ReefReadyYouTube]

so I tried fragging coral for the first time today. Something very easy, Xenia coral and some green polyps. Had all the tools and seemed like it was going great. Cut off a piece of Xenia and brought it over to my fragging station.......which was my sink, When I tried to get the piece of Xenia out of the cup it fell into my hand and out of my hand and in to the sink and down the drain. I checked the trap and it wasn’t in there so it’s gone for ever. The piece was only about the size of a dime but still. I had to cut another piece off and it went well the second time. Very upset I literally threw coral down the drain. Any reefing fails you’d like to share post them below.

 

[Peach02]

I work as a casual at my LFS and long story short I've broken 2 tanks through freak accidents, no idea how I still have a job

 

[ReefReadyYouTube]

I work as a casual at my LFS and long story short I've broken 2 tanks through freak accidents, no idea how I still have a job

Wow! That is bad, was it like a shatter and The tank was empty and seconds?

 

[Peach02]

Wow! That is bad, was it like a shatter and The tank was empty and seconds?

one was a large chunk of glass came off maybe a foot in diameter, and it was down to 2 inches of water in maybe 20 seconds hard to tell
the other was a point break about the width of a pen which I blocked with my hand, so it only emptied once we drained it.

 

[DangerDave]

My biggest fails revolve around making water. I'm not even going to try and count how many times I've started pumping water from the rodi container to the salt making container, waked away, and then ran back in a panic to find 30 gallons of water on the fish room floor. I should change my screen name to DoesntLearnFromHisMistakesDave.

Dave

 

[Zeal]

Not a frag fail but I bought a beautiful WWC OG Bounce from a frag sWaps only to DISAPPEAR THE NEXT DAY WHEN I WAS AT WORK.

ALMOST QUIT THE HOBBY

 

[Waynerock]

I had a Gryphon band saw cut right through my index finger nail first and stopped after it "bounced" off of my finger tip bone. I was being kinda reckless thinking the corals needed to get back into the water asap. Now I know you have a few to work and not rush. You know they pump out salt water to lubricate the blade right? Feels so good in a freshly cut finger yum! I did not even think about Bacteria issues just wrapped it up kept on going. It stopped bleeding about two days later. nail still looks jacked up a year and half later. Got lucky for sure

 

[champyeti]

Shattered my Dragon Soul torch's skeleton trying to glue it down to the rock. ;Vomit

 

[ReefReadyYouTube]

Shattered my Dragon Soul torch's skeleton trying to glue it down to the rock. ;Vomit

That’s sad! Did it die?

 

[ReefReadyYouTube]

one was a large chunk of glass came off maybe a foot in diameter, and it was down to 2 inches of water in maybe 20 seconds hard to tell
the other was a point break about the width of a pen which I blocked with my hand, so it only emptied once we drained it.

At least the second one wasn’t as bad.

 

[Zeal]

I had a Gryphon band saw cut right through my index finger nail first and stopped after it "bounced" off of my finger tip bone. I was being kinda reckless thinking the corals needed to get back into the water asap. Now I know you have a few to work and not rush. You know they pump out salt water to lubricate the blade right? Feels so good in a freshly cut finger yum! I did not even think about Bacteria issues just wrapped it up kept on going. It stopped bleeding about two days later. nail still looks jacked up a year and half later. Got lucky for sure

I had a Gryphon band saw cut right through my index finger nail first and stopped after it "bounced" off of my finger tip bone. I was being kinda reckless thinking the corals needed to get back into the water asap. Now I know you have a few to work and not rush. You know they pump out salt water to lubricate the blade right? Feels so good in a freshly cut finger yum! I did not even think about Bacteria issues just wrapped it up kept on going. It stopped bleeding about two days later. nail still looks jacked up a year and half later. Got lucky for sure

 

[ReefReadyYouTube]

My biggest fails revolve around making water. I'm not even going to try and count how many times I've started pumping water from the rodi container to the salt making container, waked away, and then ran back in a panic to find 30 gallons of water on the fish room floor. I should change my screen name to DoesntLearnFromHisMistakesDave.

Dave

You should get a 50 gallon water container

 

[champyeti]

That’s sad! Did it die?

Yeah, a cyano outbreak started just after that happened so I think the water quality didnt allow the fragments to make it.

 

[ReefReadyYouTube]

I had a Gryphon band saw cut right through my index finger nail first and stopped after it "bounced" off of my finger tip bone. I was being kinda reckless thinking the corals needed to get back into the water asap. Now I know you have a few to work and not rush. You know they pump out salt water to lubricate the blade right? Feels so good in a freshly cut finger yum! I did not even think about Bacteria issues just wrapped it up kept on going. It stopped bleeding about two days later. nail still looks jacked up a year and half later. Got lucky for sure

Wow any possible way we could see a picture of your finger?

 

[ReefReadyYouTube]

Yeah, a cyano outbreak started just after that happened so I think the water quality didnt allow the fragments to make it.

RIP dragon soul torch

 

[Yates273]

Was fragging a torch coral with my buddy. As I was cutting with a cutoff wheel the base broke in half and the torch ripped away from skeleton. I glued back chunk of skeleton to keep torch together. Still going strong to this day that was last year.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I had a Gryphon band saw cut right through my index finger nail first and stopped after it "bounced" off of my finger tip bone. I was being kinda reckless thinking the corals needed to get back into the water asap. Now I know you have a few to work and not rush. You know they pump out salt water to lubricate the blade right? Feels so good in a freshly cut finger yum! I did not even think about Bacteria issues just wrapped it up kept on going. It stopped bleeding about two days later. nail still looks jacked up a year and half later. Got lucky for sure

Had a Friend debone a chicken, a splinter from chicken bone pierced his thumb, got gangrene, had piece of thumb removed. Bummer

 

[DangerDave]

You should get a 50 gallon water container

Lol both tanks are 55 gallon.

 

[ReefReadyYouTube]

Lol both tanks are 55 gallon.

Oh lol. Water sensor shut off then.

 

[Evan28395950]

Just recently a frag of my Og bounce shrunk up, detached from its rock, and melted completely. Thankfully all the others are fine