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fishoholic · #1 07-13-2010, 03:07 PM

Sorry for your losses, that must of sucked to come home to

gobytron · #2 07-13-2010, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by fishoholic

Sorry for your losses, that must of sucked to come home to

The tank is in the basement and the minute I walked through the door upsairs I could smell trouble...

When I looked into the tank, there was like a half inch of film algae and the water was so cloudy you couldn't see more than a half a foot through it.

I thought it would be a total wipe out, plus it took me three days to make 200gallons of fresh sw so I had really almost given up on everything by the time I cleared away the film algae just before the third water change...

I couldn't believe it when everyone was still kicking other than the yellow assessor, all sps, 2 clams and most lps plus all of my zoas and shrooms looking like they were hung over.

I almost feel lucky after thinking it was a total loss.

ALang · #3 07-13-2010, 03:48 PM

Sorry about your loss.
Re: the feeder, it is very intriguing how it can come off the velcro. I was going to mount one just like that (except it will be a battery operated eheim) to help with some feeding chores. Do you have a cat? Maybe smelling the food and rubbed it right off the velcro??
And Milad, pls enlighten me, wouldn't the mesh interfere/ lessen the amount of light going into your tank? Just wondering because I got all these ugly glass tops on mine due to a few "jumpers", and it would be great to figure out another way to corral them in,m so to speak.

gobytron · #4 07-13-2010, 04:03 PM

3 cats...lol
but a canopy that would not allow any feline access to the feeder.

It would've actuallybeen very difficult for anything other than an arm or something to get into the back of the tank where the feeder was....

ALang · #5 07-13-2010, 04:09 PM

And there was no one home to mess around with your stuff, house/cat sitters??

gobytron · #6 07-13-2010, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ALang

And there was no one home to mess around with your stuff, house/cat sitters??

A tennant, but he would never let anything happen to my tank...lol
He knows it would spell certain eviction.

I am chalking it up to human error (mine) or fluke bad luck at this point.

Milad · #7 07-13-2010, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ALang

Sorry about your loss.
Re: the feeder, it is very intriguing how it can come off the velcro. I was going to mount one just like that (except it will be a battery operated eheim) to help with some feeding chores. Do you have a cat? Maybe smelling the food and rubbed it right off the velcro??
And Milad, pls enlighten me, wouldn't the mesh interfere/ lessen the amount of light going into your tank? Just wondering because I got all these ugly glass tops on mine due to a few "jumpers", and it would be great to figure out another way to corral them in,m so to speak.

check out the link on my sig. There is a picture of the mesh. Its 1/4 clear mesh. I dont think it blocks much light but it def could be. I cant notice a difference.