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Thanks a lot for your words Bondolo. It was quite tough to remove all the dead fish and corals. Indeed the Green Leather Toadstool that you have me some months ago was one of the most beautiful corals I ever had, feel so bad that it ended up boiled like that... Well I spent the whole weekend...

Yes, I'm going to put a couple of smaller heaters. That is going to be my approach for sure. I already installed a controller with audible alarms, so the way it works is that I set up the temp at 78F, so when the water temp reader is below 78F it will turn on the heater, once is above is will...

That is correct, but as Xcaret also points out, is not only know an avatar but the person. For example my wife freaks out to have somebody we don't know coming home just to check the tank... This Xmas holidays I paid my kids sitter (a teenager who we know) to come home every week and I gave him...

It was a 1 year old, 300W Hygger brand

I'm definitely going to be reading during the next week about all types of Apex and will get one. Phase 2 will be to think what to do is an emergency happens while I'm traveling...

No, I don't have GFO. I use lots of bio filter material but no GFO. Thanks Mario, I'll give you back the bigger yellow one that I'm not using.

I'll check about the algae if the cloudiness persist in the water. Thanks for the recommendation. I'll also put 2 heaters in the tank, for sure. Both controlled.

Thanks a lot Glee for your offering, much appreciated. In my previous tank the RBTAs were multiplication no stop all the time. Now as some members are recommending, I'm thinking over what type of corals and fish I want to have in this restart. Thanks again.

Thanks a lot for your words Bruce! I just bought a digital controller heater but as you just said, I'm going to start to investigate how the APEX works and might buy one, then use 2 heaters... basically, I'm going to start building for redundancy to avoid this happening again. Thanks a lot for...

I ended up going to Neptune and bought a Aquatop DDC-800 for $80. Will start to investigate about Apex

Thanks a lot for the recommendation, indeed I ordered the $35 Inkbird but then I cancelled. Decided to go to Neptune Aquatics and I bought a Aquatop DDC-800. It costed me $80 but it seems to be build specifically for aquariums, has alarms, etc... Thanks for the frags offering, I appreciate it.

Totally agree! Indeed I have decided not to buy cheap stuff anymore, I used to buy equipment in Amazon based on reviews, but not doing that anymore. Not buying again any tank equipment in Amazon just to save some or convenience.

Thanks everybody, I'm going to start replying you all now. I'm still busy cleaning and doing lots of water changes. I'm removing all rocks from the tank to be able to clean it deeply. And re-do my aquascape. I'm sure I'm going to need the whole day.

Thanks everybody. I hope that at least this post could be useful to someone in the future to avoid this happening to his/her tank

Thanks Xcaret again for your help today. I totally understand what you are saying, indeed never before I had seen any type of worms in my tank and after the crash they also boiled and came out from sand/rocks and I'm taking out many dead ones and some of a significant size. For quite some time...

Thanks, I'll keep your contact info for the future because today Xcaret (Mario) gave another pump that was identical to my older one and it works perfectly and no leakages. I'm the Jebao inside the sump. Also in any case, I wake this morning to a malfunction heater and I have lost everything in...

So my heater malfunctioned during the night and I wake up this morning to some bad smell and I realized that my 100g reef tank was all with like white/murky water, I touched the water and it was really really hot, my external thermometer was at 99f and because it can't go higher. "Everything"...

Thanks replied! It seems that Mario has an external pump!

Attached a picture of my previous one. It was already in the trash bin. :-). Thanks a lot Mario and rygh for your help. I'm understanding that the Jebao should be used inside the sump and I need to use a 3/4 external one that needs to be more reliable.

Indeed one the leaks was coming from the Jebao fitting. There were also leaks in other places...