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Polo Reef by Andrew Sandler's nightmare

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spuri87

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Not a lot of details shared, but post says they lost 10k gallons (total is around 17k gallons) in the middle of the night.. Every reefers nightmare.. As a new reefer, I have already woken up in the middle of at least a few nights coz I had a bad dream about a tank crash.. I just keep thinking to myself how often shall I change my pumps and heaters and pipes to avoid leakage and what not!

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Major Catastrophe Chain Of Events A Million To One Chances Of Happening !! We Lost Over 10k Gallons Very Quickly In Middle Of The Night. We Will Keep You Posted As We Assess The Damage !!...
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Wow!! What a hard situation! Im sure they will bounce back and move on. So far only thing I heard was a pump failure, faulty valve then back syphon. He had some pretty elaborate drainage so hopefully no water damages..
 
Did they say anywhere what happened? I don't know anything about this guy, but the second video seems a bit weird. Does this guy do a lot for the reef community, I assumed it was someone with a lot of $$$ and a home setup.
 
richiev said:
Did they say anywhere what happened? I don't know anything about this guy, but the second video seems a bit weird. Does this guy do a lot for the reef community, I assumed it was someone with a lot of $$$ and a home setup.
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He has tons of videos and I would honestly say mostly very interesting. Lots of money of course. Yet he approaches things from scientific stand point not the rich guy mo.
He gives scholarships and often invites avg reefers to his place for tours. It's like a full-blown aquarium at his place.


He does have a entire team working on those tanks. If you have time check out some of his earlier videos he shows the build and entire set up pretty interesting.

As are his other tanks and experiments. He also has most of Jake Adam's larger sps colonies many of his old one of kind peices hopefully he didn't loose any non replaceable ones.
 
richiev said:
Did they say anywhere what happened? I don't know anything about this guy, but the second video seems a bit weird. Does this guy do a lot for the reef community, I assumed it was someone with a lot of $$$ and a home setup.
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All in all, just a dude with a lot of money.
 
BAYMAC said:
All in all, just a dude with a lot of money.
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Having a tank that size clearly implies that one definitely has a lot of money.. he and his brother both are Billionaires apparently.. but tbh, he seems to be someone who cares about the reefing community and life in general.. I dont know about his contributions towards the reefing world, but have always found his videos informational and very interesting to watch/understand what goes into managing a tank that size
 
He was told a year ago by Alex from Abyzz (CEO) who visited him that his setup would cause issues eventually, specifically as it relates to some of the valves (which appears to be an unusual choice for a public aquarium type of setup and volume).

He was not impressed by this feedback at the time, and probably does not remember anymore he received this.

My lessons learned is to consider feedback specifically if it feels uncomfortable.
 
Alexander1312 said:
He was told a year ago by Alex from Abyzz (CEO) who visited him that his setup would cause issues eventually, specifically as it relates to some of the valves (which appears to be an unusual choice for a public aquarium type of setup and volume).

He was not impressed by this feedback at the time, and probably does not remember anymore he received this.

My lessons learned is to consider feedback specifically if it feels uncomfortable.
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interesting...
 
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