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Give away 1.5ft tank for a pack of yakult/vitagen

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Some of you may have heard my tank had a major wipe out in early January. Long story short - Took my covid booster shot that day. Did some tank maintenance that night. Switched off the return pumps, compressor & wavemaker. Felt quite ill and fell asleep. Totally knocked out. Woke up about 6 hours later to find the tank all cloudy. These died due to lack of oxygen ..... During the night, the apex app warned me of rising tank temperatures beyond the 28.5deg upper threshhold but i was asleep. The wavemaker backup batteries didn't kick in because the wavemakers were turned off. A painful mistake indeed. Too careless. A few fishes survived - my 3 clowns from 7 years ago, male mandarin dragonet (the female died), 1 yellow tang (from 6 years ago (its buddy died), 1 banggai cardinal, a couple of springeri damsels and a starlight blenny. All the sea cucumbers shrunk to a tiny size but survived. Most corals survived. Lost 1-2 SPS colonies and a couple of torch/hammers. Thankfully, the tank made it through the next day without a total crash. I'd attrribute it robust bio filtration (thanks to regular dose of Prodibio). Didn't manage to find all the missing fish. There were probably a few stuck inside the rocks. The next day night (Wednesday), i added 2 vials each of Prodibio Biodigest, Biotim & Probiotix to boost the biofiltration. Due to work, I didn't manage to 'refresh' the water by doing 100L water change till Saturday. An old pic for reference. Once more stable, I added new fish else the corals will suffer. Started to restock with some fish from Iwarna. 2x splendid wrasse, 3 blue eye anthias, 2 royal gramma. All healthy & doing well. In early Feb, I installed the Neptune Systems LLS (Liquid Level Sensor). This will trigger me when the return pumps are off (i.e. sump water level high) for > 20 minutes. And sound an audible alarm via the FMM module. In hindsight, having the audible alarm on would have migitaged this silly error.