Crued's Coral Box (Jebao) D700 Skimmer Giveaway!

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jrpark22000

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I can't be any happier to announce yet another giveaway hosted on CR, but offered by the a great reefer [MENTION=3095]Crued[/MENTION]. He's offered up 3 giveaways for CR, each with a $250 dollar value!

This giveaway is for a NEW IN BOX ($240 MSRP) Coral Box (Jebao) D700 Skimmer!
http://www.fish-street.com/coral_box_d700_dc_skimmer

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SKIMMER DETAILS
Coral Box DC Curve D700 Protein Skimmer is come from FS Design . Provides energy saving, high efficiency, silent!
The new development of the barrel body, water, bubbles rise in a smooth, efficient discharge of the waste tank to make the water can remain stable
More rapid demolition of the structure of the barrel body so that equipment maintenance is no longer a burden
Forming the outlet structure and the integration of the barrel body so that the water level to adjust more smoothly.

Cone shaped Skimmer provides more steady accumulation bubble processing efficiency.
New intake silencer device make more silent
Jebao DC3000 Pump, can using Controller more easy Adjustable on the flow rate, the best water level from 30% to 100%, around 15cm to 30cm. Flexiable to change !
Specification

Suitable for 450L to 700L Tank
Jebao DC3000 Pump
Watt :12.5W to 16.5W
Power : 110v to 240V 50/60hz
Pump Capacitly : 1850 to 3000Litres /hours
Size :260x260x530mm



In order to qualify for this giveaway:

1. Have a min of 20 meaningful posts
2. Start a thread in the "Member's Reef tank" forum or update your existing thread between now and the drawing date OR start a new informative thread on anything Reef related (Examples include; Educational/Informative thread, LFS review, Product review, Fish or coral profile)
3. Share the ChicagoReefs Facebook announcing this Giveaway on your Facebook timeline ( I will verify 100% of the entries) Link to FB post; https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1018304718215761&id=328495303863376
4. Post on this thread a short story (only needs to be a couple sentences) The GREATEST HARDSHIP you suffered in this hobby.

See my example below!

Winner will be announced on January 28th!
Good luck everyone!
 
How to enter;

Make sure you have 20 meaningful posts

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Update your Members reef tank thread, or start a new one (see details in post #1)

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Let us know you shared the Facebook post (Here's a link to the FB post) https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1018279551551611&id=328495303863376
IF you don't social media at all, or don't facebook, just have someone you know share the page for you. Just link their FB post when you reply to enter the giveaway.

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Write a short bit about the GREATEST HARDSHIP you suffered in this hobby. It can be a hard topic to talk about, but maybe someone else can learn before it happens to them


SEE MY EXAMPLE IN THE NEXT POST
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My entry (I can't join but you'll get the idea:D )

I've shared the Facebook post!

The most memorable failure was partially caused by drunking and reefing. I was doing my normal nightly chores and saw ALK was a little low, it's pretty typical for me to top ALK up once every couple weeks. Easy enough to use the Apex to manually turn on the ALK pump and let it run for 10 minutes. Well, I was easily sidetracked and forgot it was on, soon after I went to bed. I wake up and hit the floor! The tank was a wintery day in January, calcium snow was everywhere. Luckily my dosing container was low and it eventually ran out of ALK.
 
ok, thread is open for entry... Let's hear your stories :)


IF you don't social media at all, or don't facebook, just have someone you know share the page for you.
It's all about sharing the site with the greater audience, seeing what other like minded people are out there who don't know about us.

Just link their FB post when you reply to enter the giveaway.
 
1,2,&3 done! Thanks again [MENTION=3095]Crued[/MENTION] for the generous giveaways.

Most memorable failure was when I got my first skimmer. An SCA-301(I think). Being the idiot I am I opened it up and started setting it up without reading directions. Keep in mind this was my first time handling one of these, but I hooked up the hose from the pump to the drain port. So the pump ended up sucking up everything in the collection cup. Suddenly my crappy parameters made sense.


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The greatest hardship i have had in this tank is when i rushed my first build and ended up getting Ick and it wiped out my entire tank. That was a pretty sad day, and I knew the fish were sick but didn't have the knowledge to help them or a QT tank to try to save them. I felt pretty horrible about that, but for sure it was a learning experience to say the least.
 
My biggest fail was recently... washed my filter socks in washing machine, double rinse, the whole thing. Socks were dried, smelled neutral, ready to rock. Put the socks in the sump, go about some work... come down to basement and scent of detergent is in air. Go and see the sump and the drain crash area is overflowing with soap suds and skimmer, well, you get the picture. It wasn't soap, it was the washing machine cleaner residue still trapped in the bowels of the washer. Why it attached to the socks, and not my actual socks, I'll never understand.

I had no water made as I had just done a WC that morning. I threw a few filter bags of carbon in the sump and made some phone calls. A local LFS had 60 gallons ready to go. $150 and 30 min later I'm carrying 12 x 5 gallon jugs from my driveway, into house, and down to basement (my display is on first floor, but its far too high to get a big 5 gallon jug up to dump in).

Nothing died, but it was a horrible day.
 
Shared on FB.
Most memorable failure was doing a water change on my old 30 gallon with a hang on back drain. I didn't restart the siphon in the U-tube and started up the return pump and walked away from the tank thinking all was good. 10 minutes later I had about 5 gallons of saltwater all over my room and some getting into the power strip and almost starting a fire. This is why I only have drilled tanks now lol.
 
Im not in this but ill participate in the story part

My most memorable failure? Do i have to pick 1 lol. Theres 3. The ich outbreak in my 120 when i first started because wtf is quarintining fish. The diy overflow i built that worked great for 2 months then lost siphon 2 seperate times emptying my 10 gallon sump onto the floor. And last but not least my aefw crash last year because i didnt dip anything. All lessons learned

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Facebook shared. I'm in.
Worst time for me in this hobby is when my heater failed and crashed my tank. That was a few years ago. killed all my SPS corals. My tank has since recovered and now I use safety features (controller) to prevent that from happening again.
 
Make sure you have 20 meaningful posts - Done

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Update your Members reef tank thread, or start a new one (see details in post #1) - Will do tonight.

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Let us know you shared the Facebook post (Here's a link to the FB post) - Done

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Write a short bit about the GREATEST HARDSHIP you suffered in this hobby. It can be a hard topic to talk about, but maybe someone else can learn before it happens to them. - Well the first one was when I was still doing freshwater. Was out of town for the weekend, and came home to a tank full of dead fish. Turned out the heater shorted out and was heating the water to 100+ degrees. I learned from this when I started saltwater to make sure I run a controller.

For saltwater my greatest hardship was when I first got ich, and lost most of my fish within a month of starting. It was terrible, I just started my 75g tank and got it up and running, and ich took out everything. I learned to QT new fish after that.
 
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Very generous Crued!

My most memorable failure was setting up my Apex dosers on non mechanical relays. Tested them through a few cycles and then left them be. The next morning I was looking over the tank and realized my tricolor was not looking to great. I look over to my dosing containers and my calcium was down to about the 150ml mark.... Around 100ml had dumped in. I was able to correct a minor swing in alk and abnormally high calcium with a large WC but lost my tricolor

I bought a EB4 and now use that for the dosers and make sure to always inform people who are setting up new Apex systems of this issue with low wattage equipment.


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Probably the worst thing that has happened to me is flooding the whole basement with RODI water. Forgot to turn it off before bed. The second I woke up the first thing that poped into my head is RODI!!!.. Ran down and basement was soooo flooded. Thank god I had not finished my basement yet. Didnt even tell the Wife. Got out of work early and cleaned that up real fast. heh.. Never again, now I have a Float switch
 
Greatest hardship for me would be the time I went on a work trip forgetting I recently changed both my powerheads wp25 on highest setting in a 75g, coming back home to see a big hole of sand in the middle and bunch of corals in the sandbed get buried. Including my gold torch.

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Done done and done,


My greatest hardship with a reef tank is still currently a problem lol. After 3.5 years i still chase my alk/calc levels and i still haven't gotten my dosing down to being perfect. Mostly because i hardly ever test lol. Sooooo many lost corals over the years.
 
Done and done.

Greatest hardship is when my nano tank leaked in the middle of the night and waking up to water dripping sound. Without any spare tanks, I had to dump everything into a plastic tub for weeks. Lost a few corals during the time and gave away all my SPS frags.
 
Fb shared awesome giveaway!
My greatest hardship and big lesson is to all that I meet is if you have the means to do so always quarantine your fish no matter what,where or who you buy your fish from. I learned the hard way and lost all my fish this way. The worst part was losing my 8 year old pair of clowns. I take it at a lessened learned and a year and a half later decided to start fresh,upgrade to a 150 and do it all right this time. So sometimes out of hardship comes an opurtunity.
 
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The greatest hardship i had in this hobby is when i encountered those blood sucking Isopods a few years back and lost a few fish, caught them around 3 am in the morning, catch the clown that was attacked and pull that bug with a pair of tweezers. Followed by 100% rock and water change that week. could never forget that picture of clown in my head
 
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