tank crash lost all SPS
 

Ok, I hardly ever write, I generally read all the other posts, but today I feel compelled.
Monday morning I walked into my office to see my entire 110 gallon SPS dominated reef completely dead. (4 years old).fully stocked.
My equipment room HVAC system failed,raising the heat in the room,causing the chillers to overload the underpowered electric circuit,which in turn blew the power strip fuse. Despite a third backup chiller it couldn't sustain the water temp, which rose to 89 F. My in-line temp probe which was connected to a central alarm system had been disconnected and was being fixed. This despite a generator backup too. Never connect a chiller to a power strip!!!
I was devastated to say the least, I'm sure you all understand.
After lots of tequila on Monday night, and lots of condolence calls, I came in on Tuesday to start fresh. Two clowns and a powder blue survived, but the hog fish was nowhere to be found. Two clams, crabs, snails, and a couple of zanthids and yellow polyps also survived. Everything else perished, including my BTA, 40 SPS corals with a gorgeous acanthastria. Of course aptasia survived the devastation also.
So, I'm in recovery mode and decided I must start over. I cannot do a FOWLR or go to freshwater. I think you all understand.
In any case, I decided I am going to restock all at once when the tank recycles and want to know if anyone knows how I might get a large quantity of quality low-cost SPS corals. I just can't start with all frags again. Maybe, someone knows who might be dismantling a tank and wants to sell all at once. Please advise. Any comments or suggestions would be soothing to my soul right now. Thanks.

I am sorry to hear about your loss. I am quite frankly shocked that the powder blue survived. Unfortunately, I know of no sources for inexpensive, relatively large SPS pieces (or I would have bought them!).

Did you know this is the soft coral forum?

In any case, in your place, I would take the time to make this a "dream system". With proper lighting, flow, and water parameters, I have seen some tanks with truly spectacular SPS growth, as in frag-to-"have to frag!" in a year or so. Use tank-o-months as inspiration.

Dan

Thanks for the condolences, I did post accidentally to the wrong forum and i reposted it to the sps forum 5 minutes later. It actually is a dream system but with a fatal flaw.
The temp control, temp sensor and electric power to the room are all being upgraded so as to never have this happen again.
thanks for the advice.