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Old 10-05-2011, 12:31 AM
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...and a big flash of light just came from the sump, and then sizzling and red hot burningness. Apparently a heater was feeling a bit explosive tonight. I'm glad I was around for that.
good catch.. mine went while I was sleeping and wiped out my entire tank.


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Old 10-05-2011, 01:37 AM
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good catch.. mine when while I was sleeping and wiped out my entire tank.


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Ugh! How did it wipe the tank out?
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Old 10-05-2011, 02:11 AM
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Ugh! How did it wipe the tank out?
didn't , spark and such.. controller for the heater welded its self on and I woke up to coral soup. tried saving stuff but with in 3 days four 5gal buckets of skeletons was all that was left.

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Old 10-05-2011, 02:13 AM
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OMG. That would be heartbreaking! I use two small heaters, and having just one stuck on is not powerful enough to wreck havoc.
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Old 10-05-2011, 02:51 AM
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hey mindy i hope everything gets back on track with your tank yours is by far one of my faves here.sorry to hear about the scoly i had a heater go crazy on me a while back got stuck on the on position and when i got to the tank it was 90 degrees nothing harmed thankfully as i had no really sensitive corals in there

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Old 10-05-2011, 03:09 AM
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OMG. That would be heartbreaking! I use two small heaters, and having just one stuck on is not powerful enough to wreck havoc.
yup so did I, two 250 watt heaters on a system with 150 gal of water, but it happened when I had the corals in a temp tank as I was removing the sand bed from my main tank. so one 250 watt heater in a 75 gal tank.

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Old 10-16-2011, 03:57 AM
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I took a FTS today...got most of the sand out now and the tank looks much better.

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Old 10-16-2011, 04:07 AM
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Looks real good..... glad things are getting better.
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Old 10-16-2011, 02:34 PM
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Tank looks good Mindy! What is the blue fish? Do you still have the cutie pie Tang???
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Old 10-16-2011, 02:46 PM
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Thanks for the comments! The tank has been running here for 2 1/2 years now, and I'm finally at a point where I'm fairly happy with it! When I move it into the new tank and glue all the corals down again then I should be quite happy!

Leah, that is actually a Melanarus Wrasse! He is very blue. He was a she until about 3 weeks ago he started changing into male, and turned this lovely blue color. I will try to get a close up pic of him. His fins are almost as blue as a Mandarin's fins.
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