Wayne's Tank Journal - Current 90 on Page 5

[Wayne]

Update

After a incident with a UV sterilizer that turned my water black I lost a few fish. So after a few months I have finally got around to replacing some. My latest editions with pics to follow are:

Mottled Jawfish
6 Line wrasse
Cleaner Wrasse (which eats mysis)
Copperband Butterfly (which only eats mysis and not aptasia )
Coral Banded Shrimp
Green Spotted Mandrin (star of the show, always out front showing off)

[MarkoD]

wow what happen with the uv sterilizer?

[Wayne]

Well I got given a used sterilizer which I ran some water through for 15 mintues. Bought a Maxijet pump for it and put it in my tank... The next day I came home to find my tank VERY dark, when I pulled a sample of water it was as dark as when you rinse your carbon for the first time.

After a 50% water change, pulling the UV sterilizer, and adding lots of new carbon I ended up losing 5 fish but no coral.

[MarkoD]

hmmm thats strange. was the bulb cracked?

[Wayne]

If I haven't already junked it I will open it up and check.