Yeah thats the thing with not knowing! I think it might be the dead mexican snails (found one shell) or maybe the dead clam, or maybe the brass fitting, or the RO water, or maybe its something on my skin...

So many things that can go wrong on such a sensitive system... Sorry for your loss, certainly makes me realise that I am somewhat lucky. At least some softies and my fish will survive, plus my other tanks arn't plumbed into this one so they are still good.

ya they were in a different tank and between a couple people and the LFS, I think they are all still doing fine.

Steve

Thats makes it a little bit better, at least its not a total write off then. Always try to put a positive spin on things.

Honestly though if this tank crashes completly I will be taking some off, till I move into a house in a year or so.

Holy boys, your making me sad with all the death. On a positive note My 250w black stealth heater was on its way out the other day and came home to a tank temp of 90degrees!!!!

I grabbed the heater and just about burned my hands. I now have a Ti one and it works great and holds the temp more accuratly.

Made me go ahead and clean all my power heads as well cause I was afraid of any possibility of a tank nuke. I cant wait to find a chiller...

Sorry about your loss, I hope that we find out what it is so we can learn from it.

just a few quick ?'s Forgive me if I missed seeing them in this thread.

What salt are you using?
RO water, filtered or purchased?

Ken

I have been using Instant Ocean since I started the tank I have been slowly switching to Instant Ocean Reef Crystals since January. I was using RO/DI for a few months now with my own RO system which is a newer system with new filters.

There is electricity in my tank. I am getting 42V in the system total. I found 20V just in one pump, so its out of the tank now. The other voltage is from ATO, Return Pump, power heads... about 2V per.

How much is too much?

Bump anyone?

Hard to say. I don't know of any studies done testing that.
ANY amount is too much, in my opinion.:smile:

Have you put that grounding probe in there yet?:wink:

What type of grounding probe material would you use? Aluminum?

I believe the ones that the LFS sells have a titanium probe end which is attached to a wire that you attach with a screw to a nearby grounded electrical outlet.
Aluminum may just oxidize over and become useless. I don't know.

Grounding probes are usually Titanium.

Ah ha I found one from JL: http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/s...oduct_ID=mc-gp

I will look around for one locally, if anyone from Etown knows where to get them... :lol:

One more question my cabbage coral has not shed his skin in a few weeks now... He has some brownish algea growing on his edges and I blew it off and I think I blew into his flesh... Should I try to frag the healthier sections or just toss him?

Never mind I went home last night and the cabbage was not doing well so I peeled it off the rock and did a 10% water change. :sad::sad::sad:

From all the stuff that has died or I moved its a pretty bare tank... I might need to move this into the FOWLR section :cry:

Wayne i have a grounding probe you can have, its the same one from JL, its slightly used, after i upgraded my koralias to the vortechs i havent needed it, pm me

Steve

A good and bad news update:

The zoas that I pulled out are starting to open :biggrin: very slowly

But my frogspawn had some brown jelly on him today, I blew him off with the power head and moved him into another tank and I will hope for the best but am not optimistic.

New updates: Frogspawn and large umbrella toadstool dead (were moved to another tank), stray voltage probe installed and now zero voltage in the tank :)

The toadstools, rics, mushrooms, candy cane, and GSP are still going good but always were.

I am planning on regular water changes for the new 2 months and then I will try putting corals back into the tank....