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![]() Thats some good stuff.
It took me at least 10 times to stop unpluging stuff with wet hands. 30 gallons of water spilled on the floor takes longer to clean up than you would think.
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![]() the dumbest thing i've ever done happened when i was new to the hobby...
my first tank move, I had to store my fish in a rubbermaid container overnight... I just left them in with a heater and the lid on....No airstones, powerheads... my Unicorn tang died ![]() |
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![]() This is the one I'm using, http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/s..._ID=ps-pmpw410
There's a larger version made by PM as well, as well as a number of other brands that sell the same thing. The collection cup drains into this thing. There is an "exhaust" port that has a ping pong ball that floats. If the waste collector fills up, the ping pong ball floats and pushes up against the exhaust port. (It's basically a low-tech "foot valve.") Then air can't escape out, which puts back pressure on the skimmer, and the skimmer can't produce foam against the backpressure. So although the skimmer is still "running" per se, it's effectively "shut down" until you empty the waste collector.
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![]() Very cool. Never seen that before. See, you learn something new every day, even if someone else had to learn the hard way first
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![]() dumbest thing ive done. HA. well a week ago i got a carpenters wrasse. four days ago it died. I thought nothing of it. today i just noticed that i have a massive ich outbreak. my damsel is freaked enough that i can't get a good look at her. my foxface looks like it dipped its fins in the sugar bowl (on the body there are white spots surrounded by brown flesh... i assume that's bad). my new puffer (two days) has mild ich around its mouth and dorsal fin.
lesson of the day: QUARANTINE THE F***ING FISH!!! i thought i could skimp on it and now it's costing me and my fish. |
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![]() Been doing this for so long, I have done most of the things mentioned.
![]() Left the water maker running when going out, despite putting a note on the door to turn it off. Cranked the skimmer up just before leaving. This was pre-waste collector. Not understanding the relationship of the alkaline well water and ro with no di resin and the higher levels of alk. in some salt mixes. Took a couple years and several lighting/tank combo,s to figure this one out, despite all my experience. ![]() Scratching my new starfire 180 cube before water was even in. Sigh, I could go on. ![]()
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