How many corals have you loss?

[RaymondL]

As the poll suggest, I'm curious to know how many corals you've all loss since being in the hobby

 

[Rmckoy]

As the poll suggest, I'm curious to know how many corals you've all loss since being in the hobby

This could get interesting …..

I’ve started reefing in the 90’s .
I’ve had my fair share of tank crashes … 20+ is all I want to admit to

 

[Lps_lover12]

Been in the hobby about a year and 7 months, I’ve lost too many that I want to remember

 

[RaymondL]

This could get interesting …..

I’ve started reefing in the 90’s .
I’ve had my fair share of tank crashes … 20+ is all I want to admit to

Nothing to feel badly about - especially in your case being in the hobby for such a long time, you've have been presented with many opportunities for loss than say someone who's just been doing it for a year. Not to say that there might be some reefers out there who's been doing this just as long and have managed to kept the loss count to a very respectable number.

 

[doubleshot00]

Been in it for a year+ now and just broke the 10+. Why i tell lots of newbs do not buy that $200 torch

 

[RaymondL]

Been in the hobby about a year and 7 months, I’ve lost too many that I want to remember

Sorry to hear! Feel free to share 'what happened' for others that might be able to learn from your experience.

 

[Sump Crab]

Been at it since 2005 so I put 20+

 

[Goaway]

Most of my losses are torches. Most were doa. The others didn't last a month.
Cynarina, birdsnest, a couple small hammer colonies, a few gonioporas, list is longer than that.

Most of the time I know why. Sad part is when one coral gets infected, that infection can claim other coral quickly as well.

 

[ronnie]

$15k worth of acros lost in my last tank due to AEFW.

 

[shakacuz]

10-20 i think.. honestly lost track

 

[Slocke]

Hmm
Been reefing for a little over a year. Lost a goniopora because they’re hard. Then had a cyano outbreak that killed two birdsnest. Had a couple Zoas that just for some reason never got happy and faded. I think that’s it.

 

[Lps_lover12]

Sorry to hear! Feel free to share 'what happened' for others that might be able to learn from your experience.

One mistake was raising my lights up way too quickly, another was when I upgraded tanks my nurtrients slowly declined from not having enough bio load and my nitrates and phosphates bottomed out. That was the worst one

 

[Rmckoy]

Most of my losses are torches. Most were doa. The others didn't last a month.
Cynarina, birdsnest, a couple small hammer colonies, a few gonioporas, list is longer than that.

Most of the time I know why. Sad part is when one coral gets infected, that infection can claim other coral quickly as well.

Every torch I bought ended up dying .
elegance coral is another .
trumpet and Duncan’s .
cant keep
Them alive

 

[HomebroodExotics]

I’ve killed my fair share. But have had a much harder time with fish.

 

[bakbay]

I’ve been in the hobby for 30+ years, reefing the last 15 years. I haven’t lost any acros to date. They simply changed their color to white and can be a pretty cool centerpiece!

 

[Goaway]

Every torch I bought ended up dying .
elegance coral is another .
trumpet and Duncan’s .
cant keep
Them alive

Elegance, the elegance syndrom alone is terrifying to think of. I tried once, it bleached and never regained color. Died when my heater malfunctioned. That was a very difficult loss.

 

[Slocke]

Elegance, the elegance syndrom alone is terrifying to think of. I tried once, it bleached and never regained color. Died when my heater malfunctioned. That was a very difficult loss.

So I haven’t lost my elegance but it went brown and awful for a few weeks and went from beautiful to meh. Best before and after pictures I have. You can tell it lost it’s shape, pattern, but worst of all it’s beautiful tentacles lost their size and tips. It is still nowhere near as pretty several months later.
Before:

After:

 

[Goaway]

So I haven’t lost my elegance but it went brown and awful for a few weeks and went from beautiful to meh. Best before and after pictures I have. You can tell it lost it’s shape, pattern, but worst of all it’s beautiful tentacles lost their size and tips.
Before:

After:

Definitely the most difficult lps I can think of.

 

[abc123]

20+

 

[JoJosReef]

So I haven’t lost my elegance but it went brown and awful for a few weeks and went from beautiful to meh. Best before and after pictures I have. You can tell it lost it’s shape, pattern, but worst of all it’s beautiful tentacles lost their size and tips. It is still nowhere near as pretty several months later.
Before:

After:

I was scrolling through fast and stopped here in your pics and looked like you were showing two firefish that became a wrasse.