Used live rock sporting a nasty bacteria never did find out what it was but 13 fish later and a week of malafix seemed to solve the problem

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I have several anemones, and I covered the powerheads in a nylon netting, so hopefully that helps.

Even though my bta seems to be liking the bottom of the rocks as of late.. much the the shegrin of the hosting clown.

LOL!!!

very funny and probably true as well.

So far I had quite a few anemones and never got one stucket into a powerhead. I had 2 sebaes, 1 bubbletip, one huge long tentacles, two maximini carpet, and two rock flower anemones. I must have been lucky. My current anemone is a huge 12'' sebae and a 10'' maximini.

*waving over here*

Every anemone I have every had the displeasure of owning, particularly the expensive ones, commits suicide in my powerheads. It's like a silent protest against Koralias.

Good thing I run Tunze's :D

And that sucks, by the way :\

I had a total loss in the early 90's caused by a heater getting stuck in the "ON" position. Now I use two small heaters of which neither has the ability to cook the tank. In the summer, only one of those heaters is plugged in and it only comes on a bit at night (mostly because my fans run 24/7).

Also in the early 90's I bought a Queen Conch for my 20-gallon tank (not knowing any better). A couple weeks later the Conch died and I was naively oblivious. I came home after school to the whole house smelling like putrid gastropod death. There is no smell in the world that is worse than putrid gastropod death.

My most recent partial crash was about 18 months ago when Caulerpa went sexual in a 20-gallon reef that was overrun. The trigger was me forgetting to plug the heater in for a couple days in the winter and the tank dropped to about 70 degrees. As soon as I plugged the heater back in the Caulerpa got frisky. Luckily I caught it early and only lost one fish. Sadly I lost one fish.

I think 99.99% reason for crash is owing a saltwater tank :razz: (0.01% is putting a plastic bag in the ocean which in turn chokes a whale)