Respect for sharing with us. This is hard to watch, can't imagine how you all must be feeling. Really enjoy your candid videos and can't wait to see you rebuild this beautiful tank.

So sorry for you loss. It's so sad when something like that happens. Sending you positive vibes.

Can't believe it. Hadn't seen that tank in person yet but from everything I've seen here, it was a beauty. You are right, this would drive most from the hobby but you, March, are in the enviable position of owning your own successful reefing store. You can build back better - and get some killer fragbox tv content while you're at at!

Respect for sharing this with everyone, its good to know that even someone as experienced as yourself can have a crash... some would attempt to hide this, but the fact you've taken it as an opportunity to share with the community is what makes your channel worth watching IMHO.

Thanks for sharing Please let us know what the trigger was if you find out.

I am so sorry for your loss. I watch every video and have learned so much from you and your team. I am now learning about bouncing back and not giving up. I hope you figure it out and don’t blame yourself. Some times shit just happens.

My wife & I are so sorry to hear about this terrible situation. Keep your head up we are wishing you the best.

You have a totally great attitude about keeping positive about the chaos that arrived, we call that Growth Mind Set. You are steering away from the fixed mind set and I know you will prevail. Your shop is beautiful I see you take so much care of your drygoods how organized they are so I know how your tank must have been so gorgeous. I have empathy when I hear you say how long you had these corals, that makes me feel what you feel, you will bounce back and please share with us any new updates.

My condolences. RIP to all the little guys. That was one phenomenal tank

Sorry to hear! I remember seeing that tank a year back and loved it. Best of luck on the new one!

bro i’m 21 now.. i can’t imagine losing corals i’ve been growing since i was 14or 15. my heart goes out and props to letting it be a lesson and not just completely destroy your outlook on it. hope that thing gets back up and going better than before 💪🏼

Found your channel from this video, sorry about the crash of the system. I'm new to the marine scene and made a ton of mistakes, but through this video you've gained a subscriber in me just from the way this video is conducted. Hopefully you can bounce back and look forward to seeing more from your channel. Take care

Gutten for you guys man , came to this store about a month ago and was impressed . Respect for sharing this keep up the good work! 💯

March - Having recently discovered your business and being inspired by your knowledge and love of the hobby I'm sorry to hear of this terrible circumstance. I've no doubt you'll be able to build better and safer and hopefully you can uncover more into the root cause (and in turn help us hobbyists understand what can go wrong)

March been watching your channel since the beginning from Tucson Arizona as I'm getting ready to start my own reef tank I cannot believe what I'm watching I am so sorry that that happened to you and your store I'm rooting for you to come back stronger than ever

Damn dude this is so sad and sorry to see but honestly... Can't wait to see you bounce back and follow the new build! This will make an Awesome series! All the best from South Africa

This is absolutely terrible! I’m terribly sorry for your loss :( I admire how you still find a way to stay positive :) I hope things straighten out!

Wow, sorry for the loss. Positive vibes!

Sorry that happened! Good luck on the rebuilding, looking forward to watching the build....

So sorry for you loss. That was a beautiful system. Sending positive vibes. my thoughts are maybe clam

You are an Awesome channel!!!! I’ve gone through several crashes and I do have those quitting thoughts. But the remaining coral that I always have keeps me going 🥺😍

This is always the part of the hobby we must share to everyone. Everything doesn't always go 100%, no matter if you're new or years into the hobby. Mini oceans can change in an instance. Hope most of what you salvage lives and happy reefing my dude, good watch.

Sorry for your loss! Hang in there March! Hope you will bounce back more strongly..

Bro sorry for what happens but can't wait to see how you get through it. Much luck and positive vibes for the future

Keep your head up! Love the positivity to keep moving forward and rebuild.

Sorry for your loss bro. Your positive attitude will take you further then you have already got in this hobby. Great example to set for new reefers. Shit happens and making the best of it is what sets you apart from the rest!

Never met you, but you seem like a hell of a guy. Good luck on the rebuild!!! If anyone can do it, it’s you and your team!

So sorry for your loss. This is truly gut wrenching. I hope you find out what happened.

Hi March...so sorry for the loss....on a positive note just seeing this video reminds me how much I LOVE your store and coral selection! The main display that is still 100% in tact is gorrrgeous as usual and I will be ordering some corals from it tommorow!!!!!!!!!!! I think your attitude to turn a negative into a positive is stellar! Go For It! Bring it back EVEN BETTER then before....we all love our cars ..UNTIL WE BUY A NEW ONE! lololol Again sorry for your loss and sorry for the animals that died in the tragedy of course too... Faster you move forward the faster this will be behind you...BEST OF LUCK MARCH and YOUR WONDERFUL TEAM of employees that do a spectacular job on the service end of things every single time I have dealt with them! CHEERS.

It happens to everyone. I'm sorry for your loss!! My worst crash was salinity was 1.35 and killed nearly everything. We allowed it to essentially recycle and go feral. It came back BEAUTIFUL and we rebuilt.

Damn, I was hoping it was a click-bait... I am sorry for your loss, March. I don't know what I want more now - to know what cause it or to see it being rebuild for the better. Keep us updated! And best of luck rebuilding!

March man!! Sorry for your loss buddy, iv been there before man, in Australia where i live in summer it can get to 50 degrees in the shade. So while I was at work my chiller fucked up, my water was over 40 degrees lost everything, but i didn't give up ,still going strong KEEP ON REEFING

Damn... So sorry that this happened to you! Glad you are keeping a good spirit about this. Thanks for posting this! Recently lost all my fish to an air flow problem.

Oh crap! So sorry to see this dude. Onward and upward, you have a good positive mental attitude and that's great to see given the situation 💪 I personally would be having a mental breakdown 🙈

Jeez man! So sorry. Good outlook. Do a mini series on starting over the tank for beginners. Daily vlog type stuff.

Just going through some of your older videos. I’m sorry this happened man, but respect your attitude towards the situation

Really sorry for your loss. I only got into the hobby 3 years ago and since I started I've had 3 tank crashes. 2 tanks actually cracked(32gal biocubes and their horrible curvef corner designs....2 tanks both break in the same place), both brraking the week of a large shipment + haul from coral shows. Lost close to everything and it did alot of damage to the house. I stayed in the hobby and continued to acquire coral, splitting what I had left and could fit between two 20gal nano AIO(one as a display tank another as a coral grow out). A year went by the tanks had pushed through any alage/bacteria issues + growing pains.... until one morning I discovered cloudy water, a dead shrimp and corals covered in slime. Return pump died the night before and by the next day they had been cooking in 90+ degree water. Took everything out and surprisingly was able to save some of what I thought was lost. Since then I've acquired gear and planned a bigger build but starting has been an off and on debate, constantly worried to start until I have everything properly planned for any type of worse case scenario. Going through such a tragedy truly is a punch to the gut. Hours on hours, years of learning, selecting, and maintaining just to have little to show. It's definitely a moment where you either pick yourself up and try again or hang up the towel. So congrats on pushing through. I doubt I have any experience that you don't have already, but besides preparation for worse case scenarios, having a seperate system is something I'll probably always stick with, even though it means extra work. It allows you to have a life line, as well as move coral around and see if they do better in other parameters without having to change that tank to their liking. Again, sorry for you loss. I've wanted to see your store since I found the channel and once I'm able to travel again, I look forward to shaking your hand

Wow this was my muse tank! Sorry for the loss, I hate this hobby sometimes… as always though I’m impressed with your candor and positive attitude.

Respect on sharing this.. you sir deserve to be followed!

Dude, big tears. No joke, I have only fresh water tanks but fellow fish folks feel your pain. I’m so sorry. Best wishes, and look forward to your rebuild

Sorry for your loss, it’s almost unbelievable how fast that happened.

With that kind of really rapid death I would think it would have to be a very toxic addition to the tank or electrical issue. No matter what it really sucks. I loved seeing updates on that tank. I was just feeling comfortable with my tank and now I'm thinking I need to double check everything. Hopefully you get some answers so we'll all know what how to prevent a similar occurrence. As always, love the videos and wish I could order from your store.

That’s sucks man I’m sorry you’ll bounce back stronger thank you for sharing a lot of places wouldn’t

Omg 😲 I'm new to the hobby and have been looking to you for advice and knowledge as I learn the ropes and I must say, for you to say you don't know what happened is absolutely terrifying! I'm so sorry that you have to go through this.

Mate, Gutted for you, been there!! Like the positivity, like the Phoenix coming out of the fire.

Absolutely gutted for you guys, we all know you'll bring the tank back stronger, just a shame this had to happen ☹

Hey March, sad to see the one tank go, but when you went downstairs to the the farm I felt sick. So sorry this happened to you. I know (from your videos) you had a large collection of corals you were growing out in the basement. These corals were in some cases your favorites. Hopefully your local community will pull together and bring you back in some frags of your favorites to get you back up and running. It is a good reminder for me to put some carbon back in my system.

Thanks for sharing. Sorry to hear about any losses :(

You’re remarkably upbeat and I really respect that.

my word, that is crazy. I hope you recover stronger than before.

Man that blows. Keeping it real and that's the good, bad & ugly. I sure hope you find the cause.

That sucks. I hope you figure out what went wrong - the paly theory is interesting. I look forward to seeing you coming back better and stronger.

It happened to me once when my box buffer died. Do you have any fish or corals that can release toxic when dead? I don’t think poly or zoa can kill that big tank/sump in that short amount of time.

That sucks what happened. Do you have tips on getting coral I have a cycled tank with clownfish I added about a week ago. I did a water change yesterday after a week and hope to get coral today. Do I have to add any chemicals or can I just add coral?

Send off a sample of water for al ICP test, for sure you’ll find out the cause of this disaster. 😔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Ohhhhh man! I'm so sorry. I wish I could help you - all I can do is send you good vibes. Hugs and greetings from NYC.

I can’t remember what bottle you guys were just freehand dosing but could it be the massive amount of that green stuff someone dumped in this tank in the last video?maybe it was aqua fuel? Idk how old the video is but ur man clouded the entire tank with something green? I hope u get it figured out tho brother . We all learn alot from ur channel/vlogs

Love the positive mindset dude many people wouldn’t be able to stay that positive after a crash this big but unfortunately this is a very real unpredictable thing in the hobby. I’d say your on to something with thinking something large died in the tank that could have possibly poisoned/ released ammonia. Pally and leathers scare me for those reasons. Even larger anemones make me a little nervous I’ve had a large rose / seabae crash two different tanks in the past. All of those things have made me a carbon freak… and I have a habit of doing water changes extremely often lol even if I think something seems kinda off in any of my systems. Bacteria wise I dose a few of the products dr Tim’s has to offer and brightwell microbacter7. I will use vibrant as needed that’s a newer one I added to my list. I try not to rely on it too heavily tho. It kills off algae and other things so fast that red slime can become an issue so a few hours after dosing it ( half a day) I run Uv again and skim semi wet. Your true to this game tho and I know that your shop systems will make a major come back!! Start making grow out frags for the shop with those new acros u got in that’s a great starting line up of farm corals !!!!! Love the videos buddy hang tight 👌✌️🙏🤙

Do cctv cameras show any footage of tanks at time of ph drop? Any coral spawning event? Clam spawn? If palytoxin wouldn’t that have affected people who walked into the store afterwards considering how much was killed and how large the system is?

😭😭😭 I'm so sorry and proper gutted for you and the team. Hope the livestock you moved all pulls through.

Mine did the same thing a few months ago and i still haven’t figured it out but things are coming back hope you figure it out so i can catch it before it happens again to my tank

When you said SHITTY FRAG BOX TV at the end I really felt that. I had this happen twice in my reefing past over the last 10 years, still don’t know why. Just frustrating and hurting to watch.

So sorry to hear :( But stay strong! Think positive! And update with what happened

Terrible that it happened and hope you get to the bottom of the reason. But great attitude on redoing abs getting back to the drawing board. My thoughts and prayers to you chief.

Hey man I’m sorry for your loss I was in a store today I can’t even believe it and I’m pretty sure you can get it back

Wow. I feel bad right now, and those arent even my tanks. Stay strong man!

Sorry for this march... Wondering, you gonna sell those hydra32 diffuser?

I recently had that happen. But lost all my fish really sucks. Bought a qt tank the next day......lesson learned. On the bright side lots of video ideas for you guys to show the different process of setting up a reef tank

reminds me when u dump buffers without diluting, or dosing trace elements (with heavy a metals) ..dammit how unfortunate the video we didn't want to see..thanks for the upload and showing us the downs of the hobby/shop keeping

This is crazy! So sad to see this, hope you find an answer to prevent it happening again! 🤞

Sorry for your loss March, I'm glad I don't do sps coral.

I'm sorry to hear about the crash. I'm sure this has been said before but In case it hasn't. A Low PH event happened in one of our farm systems as well. It turned out that overnight a spawning event occurred which triggered other spawning events. Ultimately it caused the oxygen to crash within the system and we lost that grow system. This coupled with the loss from corals dieing during the spawning event made a roller coaster. To prevent this in the future we implemented a 65 gallon Black oxygen detox chamber (Pickle Jar) where water goes through. The water in that chamber is super saturated with oxygen from air bubblers until its a literal churning mess of bubbles. A year later we also had a spawning event noted by the PH and O3 drop and lost nothing. We firmly believe that it was due to the constant super oxygenation. - Since then we have setup alerts for PH dips that last longer than 1 hour and used if-then statements to triggers these alerts after lights out. Subsequently we also setup the same alerts that triggers a Ozone Generator to start pumping ozone into the oxygen detox chamber if Ozone drops below a threshold. We use a large pump with a needle wheel mod and draw air from outside through a carbon bag. The second pump also draws air from outside but we fitted it with a T attached to our Ozone generator a Poseidon 100. It comes on as necessary.

What was the temp of the water? Didn't hear you mention anything about that but I seen fish so sure that's not it. But ph shouldn't be that low mid day should be at it highest. So think ur onto something with that. Best luck keep ur head up,👊

Sorry for the loss... So sad

So sorry this happened but you will figure it out and bounce ack better than ever. Please explain why you have to get rid of your rock.

Mate,the funny thing is as I was watching this I said to my wife this is palytoxin,two minutes later you mentioned the purple deaths which is literally what happened to me one Saturday afternoon,doing maintenance on my reef tank and decided to split a bunch of purple deaths that were starting to grow over other corals.I have been in the hobby close on 20 years and the devastation within a few hours,well I certainly have never seen anything like it,all my plating montis,huge birdsnest literally turned white overnight,chalice lost colour but I do still have them and they have regained colour,this happened around 6 months ago.I did put heaps of new reef carbon in a reactor,and ran the skimmer around the clock,it took the tank around a week to settle,I didn't lose any fish,or oddly any acropora.I am extremely convinced it was palytoxin.On a positive note my reef looks great again,unfortunately i still have a bunch of those purple deaths.

I'm so sorry you lost the tank but I'm excited to see what you come up with next.

Oh nooooooooooo! I'm sorry March, glad you are getting back on it. That sucks so hard! Yeah wondering about that pH plunge, and what caused it. I'm so sad 😔

Would it have been a good idea to leave everything as it was and just risk a huge water change?

Oh no! That's awful. So sorry for your loss

What type of tank are those in the basement? Great Videos by the way! Been a fan and wanting to start a reef store somewhere in the midwest of US!

Sorry for your loss, had it happen too, found when watching my webcam facing tank that for me, it was coral spawning and in a closed environment = death

So sorry this has happened. Please share when you find out the cause, might be interesting to do an ICP test? ❤️ from 🇬🇧

Any of those 2 bottles-leak, that are on top of the tank ?

Would love to see an ICP test on that system. Also, what kind/brand/size is that display tank that crashed? I’ve always loved that tank. :(

Your delivery is the key

I feel for you, have you checked the heater, for me years ago my cracked bits of glass came off, We I return home I found very un happy even dead fish. It was a 6ft tropical tank. I was so gutted so I feel your pain. Now I'm tropical and reef tanks. Goid vibes from England

I feel your pain , I bought a flame angel yesterday which are getting hard to get in UK, lost it in first 24hrs 😭

Do you run an ORP monitor through your Apex? Not necessarily for informing you of its average, but to alert you if something causes a significant drop. Your PH gave you a hint- a drop in ORP may alert you to unseen issues happening in real time.

heart goes out to you guys.

I would’ve gone crazy man 🙏🏽 excited to see what you guys do with the tank keep us updated

That's a horrible situation, did you have and red planaria in the system somewhere as a friend of mine had a mass die off in his tank and it stank the whole house out. Plus it killed all his snails.

Aww man. Sorry that happened to you. To think I almost gave up on saltwater based on my learning tank. Not I have three saltwater tanks. Do you ship coral?

Maybe, reminds me of a massive coral spawning event that wiped out a friend's, clients 400 reef.

Absolutely brutal. So sorry for all your loss.

Really hate this happened to you’re tank I hope you let us know if you figure out what happened thanks for the videos I’m in the US I wish I could get corals from you those acros you got in look sweet

Man that’s so sad to see but as a reef keeper it’s one of the risks we all take just keep your head up don’t dwell on it too much and come back stronger with a little bit more knowledge.

More you learn,shows how much we have left to comprehend

Absolutely devastating to see. Stay strong!

I would love to see you do an alge tank all different kinds of alge and some gorgonian leather Coral