Thanks all. Hopefully I will be able to visit Lawrence when I am visiting my family in a couple of weeks!
A couple of my fish friends consoled me after the incident, too…one was cleaning an extremely rare apisto tank, and the female got sucked into the tube and suffered a pretty horrible death. One of my killifish friends had a rare breeding group of a Rivulus species, and he forgot to cover the tank…they all jumped out in the 10 minutes he was in the bathroom. Another one of my friends in the Midwest lost power during a 3 day snow storm and most of his discus died. I know things happen, but it still hurts, especially when they are so rare and special! I’m lucky that I haven’t had any huge disasters…but then…the big earthquake is supposed to hit San Francisco one of these days O_o