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01-22-2012, 06:09 PM
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A NEAR DISASTER!
Leaving on vacation tomorrow and won't be back for 16 days, so I just did a water change on all 3 tanks. Mixed up 75 gals of SW and started on the 90g first. Had about 15 gals of the new SW into the tank when I noticed the two clams were closing up and some of the corals were starting to slime up. Uh Oh! Checked the temp on the tank: 74F! Stuck my hand in the new water and it was ice cold. The heater in the mixing container must have failed. I keep the container in the garage which is at about 60F. Tank temp dropped 4 degrees in five minutes! No wonder the inverts looked ****y! I always check the temp and salinity before water changes, but forgot to this time. IDIOT! Slowly raised the temp back to 78 and everything appears to be okay. Clams have re-opened and corals stopped sliming. Whew! Too close for comfort.
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225g reef Last edited by Lance; 01-22-2012 at 06:10 PM. Reason: spelling 
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01-22-2012, 09:20 PM
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Must be something in the air, my routine sump cleaning yesterday turned into a 14 hour day for me, just about everything that could go wrong did and everything that could break did, end result both my tank and myself are looking real tired and I leave tomorrow for a week, wonder what's going to happen while I'm gone? Enjoy Mexico, 2 weeks sounds nice.
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01-22-2012, 11:11 PM
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Yikes! Lucky you caught it. Have fun in the sun
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02-19-2012, 04:52 PM
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With sadness & relief, I've decided to shut down the corner tank. It has served me well for 41/2 years but it is time to go down to one tank. I am now in the process of moving some corals, fish, and rock over to the 225g. The rest of the livestock will be sold or given away to good homes.
A few of the last photos:    
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02-19-2012, 05:51 PM
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that is too bad Lance oh well its for the best. I really don't know how people can mange more then 1 tank.
and you are there and I'm here that 92 gal corner crap.
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02-19-2012, 07:47 PM
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And here I was going to ship it out to you cuz I thought you liked it so much.  Actually Mike, the wifey is going to make a nice big home of it for her lizard (Bearded Dragon)
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if you need homes for anything let me know, I have a little space available.
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