Never a dull moment in Reefland!

[Delphinus]

Fun times. I almost participated in this because I started typing in a story about what happened to me 2 weeks ago which in the end cost me my large squamosa clam, the largest clam I had ever seen in anyone's tank and coincidentally my oldest clam too. But then my phone ate my reply. The Blackberry Pearl Flip is now universally recognized as the worst phone Blackberry has ever made, which strangely enough doesn't make me feel any better about it but is neither here nor there. Anyhow rather than type it all in again I'd rather not relive the moment. Suffice it to say crappy moments abound in this hobby.

Anyhow, Lance, sorry to hear but at least you've figured things out. Things should recover. I know what you mean about the Foxface, my rabbit is the first to get hysterical about things and actually usually goes into this weird comatose state if startled enough. Weird phenomena, I wonder how that helps escapes predators or whatever it is that makes fish scared in the wild. Maybe it makes them invisible to other fish.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Anyhow, Lance, sorry to hear but at least you've figured things out. Things should recover. I know what you mean about the Foxface, my rabbit is the first to get hysterical about things and actually usually goes into this weird comatose state if startled enough. Weird phenomena, I wonder how that helps escapes predators or whatever it is that makes fish scared in the wild. Maybe it makes them invisible to other fish.

Everything is looking ok now. The big Pocci has stopped sliming and its polyps are out again, and the Foxface has calmed down enough and even ate a little. Rabbitfish are pretty weird all right. I have a large Foxface in the 225g, he's about 7" long. In the evening, after lights out I cover the tank with egg crate panels to stop jumpers. The other night something startled him and he hit the egg crate so hard he lifted the whole panel and moved it a couple of inches. This is a 32" x 24" piece of egg crate! I thought for sure he must have given himself brain damage, but the next day he was perfectly fine except for a couple of small scratches on his head. Dumbass!

[christyf5]

My favorite is the story about how a $1000 controller setup is repeatedly confounded by several tiny brittle stars that make their way into the topoff sensor (and I'm not talking about just hanging around it, actually making it into the space between the float and the cylindrical tube it floats on), raising the float valve and as a result end up dumping half of my topoff water into the sump (half you say?, the valve should only move like a half inch which isn't that much water! no, not in the world of Aquatronica). Nothing like filling your topoff tank with 30 gal of water only to hear the alarm go off at about 2am (I think its programmed to only go off between 2am and 6am, cause thats when its guaranteed you'll be sleeping and it goes off every 5 seconds) and when you get downstairs most of what was in the topoff tank is gone. The first time it happened I was sure there was a leak in the topoff tank until I ended up marking the level in the sump and four days later sure enough there it was again.

My sympathies Lance. There is nothing worse than unplugging a perfectly working piece of equipment to clean it, only to plug it in a few minutes later and its deader than a doornail. Friggin hobby!