Lance's 225 gal tank

Lance · #1 10-11-2010, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by PoonTang

Lance. Won't he eat nori? Mine practically lives perched on-top of my feeder. Kind of funny watching the fat old bastard laying there asleep on top of his dinner.

Nope. Won't touch it. I've placed small amounts of nori near all his favourite haunts. Turns his nose up at it. He will only eat hair and film algae of which the Kole gets most of.

Lance · #2 10-19-2010, 05:11 AM

Sitting on the couch tonight watching TV and I hear a loud crack from the big tank: exactly like glass cracking. Oh ****! I check out the tank but cannot find anything. No leaks, no cracks that I can see. Kept a close eye on it for the better part of an hour. I'm thinking, and hoping, it was the light fixture. The noise came about 15 minutes after the halides went out so maybe the metal cooling down caused the noise. Hasn't happened before though. Going to bed with my fingers crossed tonight. Will set my alarm for 3am and check things out.

Delphinus · #3 10-19-2010, 05:45 AM

Oh dear God. Good luck. Hope it was nothing!

lastlight · #4 10-19-2010, 06:13 AM

+1!

My reflector sometimes does that after cooling a bit hopefully that's all it was!

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #5 10-19-2010, 06:31 AM

Having just recovered from that, I really hope your tank isn't making the noise & it's only the reflector. Good luck my friend.

Anthony

Mrfish55 · #6 10-19-2010, 02:12 PM

Hopefully all is well, any recent additions? could have picked up a pistol shrimp hitch hiker, I remember having one and it souded exactly like cracking glass (unfortunately I have lived thru that also) The sound happend on a regular basis for about three years and suddenly stopped, guess the little bugger finally shot himself, good luck.

Parker · #7 10-19-2010, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Lance

Sitting on the couch tonight watching TV and I hear a loud crack from the big tank: exactly like glass cracking.

Damn, sounds scary. Sometimes I wish mine would crack, then I wouldn't be so frustrated with it!

muck · #8 10-19-2010, 03:49 PM

Lance? Please tell us the tank is fine this morning...

Lance · #9 10-19-2010, 04:34 PM

Well I came down at 3am to check things out and couldn't see anything. The water level in the tank is fine and no wet spots anywhere. Checked again at 6am before going to work and again just now: no apparent problem. I think it must be the reflectors cooling down. The sound seemed to come from up higher. Don't know why this would happen all of a sudden, the light has been on the tank since May?

Delphinus · #10 10-19-2010, 04:50 PM

Good to hear, I continue to hope it's nothing.

Have you checked the lights themselves? It's happened to me where the glass envelope itself cracked and fall partly off. This was bad news I lost a pile of corals to UV damage and when it happened to Christy she lost fish to UV burn as well so it's something you'll want to confirm ASAP.