What NOT to do. . . .
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Topic: What NOT to do. . . .
Posted By: ksarcury
Subject: What NOT to do. . . .
Date Posted: June 12 2009 at 1:51pm
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Science experiment of the day. . .
Snails do NOT survive electrical current from a broken heater in a 12g nano. . .
Mushrooms, purple and watermelon, toast quickly in the electrical current . . .
Small clownfish and dwarf hawkfish seem annoyed by electrical current. . . (still alive and well so far. . . may have brain damage
 )Various zoas/palys, closed and relocated to 90g. to see if they are dead or just trying to fool the electrical current into thinking they are. . .
Acans are a crap shoot. . . relocated to the 90g. to see what happens. . .
New heater in tank, escargo for dinner?
Kids, do NOT try this at home. . . .  ------------- 90 gal. reef 12 g. nano w/acans 34 g. salano system |
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Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: June 12 2009 at 2:30pm
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Escargo sounds good. I hope the rest survive.
Mike -------------  |
Posted By: ksarcury
Date Posted: June 12 2009 at 8:47pm
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Some good news. . . acans are tougher than I would have thought. They survived the voltage. Also, it looks like a couple of zoas/palys might pull through.
Fish are still hanging in there as well.
I am soooooo glad I had just started stocking this tank. Could have been much worse.
Woo Hoo  ------------- 90 gal. reef 12 g. nano w/acans 34 g. salano system |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: June 12 2009 at 9:54pm
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That is good news. I'd say you've got it made now.
Mike ------------- |
Posted By: Roy
Date Posted: June 12 2009 at 10:15pm
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What kind of heater? Did it break? I use stealth heaters that are made out of rubber/plastic ------------- 90 gal Corner with / 200 gal sump. |
Posted By: ksarcury
Date Posted: June 13 2009 at 8:04am
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Piece of cheap glass heater, and yes it broke. I have replaced it with one that won't! The heater was one that we had laying around for a while from another tank - just goes to show that a little investment up front can go a long way!
------------- 90 gal. reef 12 g. nano w/acans 34 g. salano system |