Only one that I would call major and that was loosing £250-300 of rift valley cichlids.

Needless to say I was gutted and never really kept them after that I held on to what was left and took care of it but went right off them I was totally gutted.

Basically my tank use to run on just 2 fluval 303 these are old design and generally pretty good although they can be a bugger to start. Anyway had a power cut and because I had power breakers on everything plugged into the tank they didn't reset when the power came back on. I was doing shift work at the time so the tank was running filterless for about 8 hours in the summer my parents didin't notice they were not working as the tank was in a back room.

When they did notice and started doing something about it I had already lost about 15 fish including my breeding group of adult Crytocara morii all in excess of 5" long they were stunning my ahli 2 males both about 8" long plus 4 females and numerous other haplochromines. I was absolutley gutted I had grown all the fish on from being inch long tidlers. Anyway gave up rift valleys after that to much of a knock for me hence keeping slightly less demanding fish now that can cope with a power cut, I also have a generator on standby though.

Oh yes and all power breakers have been removed and I will never use power breakers again.

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Alan

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