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Elliott · #**726** 12/26/2007, 10:38 PM

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Originally posted by steve the plumb
Maybe you guys need to hire a plumber to fix your set up properly.You guys should stick to your day jobs and let the trades people do there thing.

lol, if I did that I would have had people build my entire setup! wow, can't imagine what it would have cost

chris wright · #**727** 12/26/2007, 11:09 PM

Looking to do a road trip Steve?

jnarowe · #**728** 12/26/2007, 11:11 PM

yeah, I had a tank room fire myself. my reactor split a seam and shot water onto an outlet. shorted out a variety of things, breakers etc. smoke puffs and dead equipment...2" of water on the floor...I flipped a breaker back on and puff, more smoke.

With my brain damage, I really didn't know what kind of danger I was in. The fire blackened one of the return lines jsut below the tank. I cam very close to a complete tank drain.

Elliott · #**729** 12/26/2007, 11:24 PM

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Originally posted by jnarowe
The fire blackened one of the return lines jsut below the tank. I cam very close to a complete tank drain.

ok, that would have definitely been a show stopper

mrcrab · #**730** 12/26/2007, 11:34 PM

Elliott wrote:

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lol, if I did that I would have had people build my entire setup! wow, can't imagine what it would have cost

Elliott, I have a good retort for that but I'll hold my tongue as I don't know you.

mrcrab · #**731** 12/26/2007, 11:36 PM

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Originally posted by jnarowe
I cam very close to a complete tank drain.

Correction...you came very close to a complete Jonathan drain!

sherm71tank · #**732** 12/26/2007, 11:49 PM

recycler, pig farmer, serial killer, hold who's tongue? RUN Elliott!!! RUN!!!

Elliott · #**733** 12/26/2007, 11:52 PM

you guys are waaaaay over my head

sherm71tank · #**734** 12/26/2007, 11:58 PM

mrcrab got you at the deep end of the pool?

mrcrab · #**735** 12/27/2007, 12:20 AM

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Originally posted by sherm71tank
recycler, pig farmer, serial killer, hold who's tongue? RUN Elliott!!! RUN!!!

PIG FARMER?!?

Cat herder, maybe.

sherm71tank · #**736** 12/27/2007, 12:22 AM

ROTFSMTO!!!! (rolling on the floor stabbing my tongue out)!!

mrcrab · #**737** 12/27/2007, 12:26 AM

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Originally posted by Elliott
you guys are waaaaay over my head

Scroll back up Elliot. I edited the original post. Don't think I 'splained it good enough.

mrcrab · #**738** 12/27/2007, 12:41 AM

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Originally posted by sherm71tank
ROTFSMTO!!!! (rolling on the floor stabbing my tongue out)!!

Well, Clarice - have the lambs stopped screaming?

sherm71tank · #**739** 12/27/2007, 12:53 AM

Yes, yes they have sir. BTW, it was chris wright's idea! I swear it was! Have mercy upon me!

jnarowe · #**740** 12/27/2007, 12:55 AM

they are just flopping around now, sir.

sherm71tank · #**741** 12/27/2007, 12:59 AM

The way dead things sometimes do! Ahh, I love it!

with my best pirate smile of course!

mrcrab · #**742** 12/27/2007, 01:15 AM

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

chris wright · #**743** 12/27/2007, 01:59 AM

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Originally posted by sherm71tank
Yes, yes they have sir. BTW, it was chris wright's idea! I swear it was! Have mercy upon me!

Hey what, me have idea's?

You must drink more than me

mrcrab · #**744** 12/27/2007, 04:15 PM

Jon,

How many times are you rinsing your food on RO before feeding? I'm gonna give it a try as I'm having HA issues in my sump.

jnarowe · #**745** 12/27/2007, 04:36 PM

What I do is soak the ingredients before I make the food. I soak for about a half hour in RO/DI, then rinse with RO/DI.

When I feed, I thaw the food in tank water with vitamins, then I strain it through a very fine shrimp net. This helps a lot IMO.

Make sure to back-track through your water supply system too. Check your tap water, your RO, and your RO/DI to make sure you are not doing water chnages with "bad" water.

Then look at mechanical filtration. Floss? Carbon getting changed out regularly? Using GFO? Water temp? Die-off like I had with the snails?

How old are your lamps? Have they shifted spectrum? Do you need to lower them? And my old favorite, what about a nap? I have my lights go out for an hour in the middle of the lighting period. It takes much longer for algae to ramp up photosynthesis than more advanced life forms, so adding a nap will seriously mess with the HA's ability to prosper.

chris wright · #**746** 12/27/2007, 06:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jnarowe
What I do is soak the ingredients before I make the food. I soak for about a half hour in RO/DI, then rinse with RO/DI.

When I feed, I thaw the food in tank water with vitamins, then I strain it through a very fine shrimp net. This helps a lot IMO.

Make sure to back-track through your water supply system too. Check your tap water, your RO, and your RO/DI to make sure you are not doing water chnages with "bad" water.

Then look at mechanical filtration. Floss? Carbon getting changed out regularly? Using GFO? Water temp? Die-off like I had with the snails?

How old are your lamps? Have they shifted spectrum? Do you need to lower them? And my old favorite, what about a nap? I have my lights go out for an hour in the middle of the lighting period. It takes much longer for algae to ramp up photosynthesis than more advanced life forms, so adding a nap will seriously mess with the HA's ability to prosper.

A nap? I think your talking about yourself here

With those lights you gotta get out, so you can sleep and leave the lights on

Seriously though, there's merit to what you are saying. Wouldn't work in my case, as I get heaps of natural light all day.

jnarowe · #**747** 12/27/2007, 06:20 PM

Nothing wrong with a motorized shade. Easy to do.

mrcrab · #**748** 12/27/2007, 06:34 PM

Okay. Programmed a 1+1/2 hour nap for the sump. 8 hours of total photo-period, 4 + nap + 4 hours. Lights, 2 X 39w T5's, were old, just replaced 2 and will have 2 more new ones next week although this has been an ongoing problem and not sure it relates to a lamp shift.

Will start soaking/rinsing all food in RO/DI and change over to nori after the spiralina flakes are gone.

I'll let you know how it goes.

jnarowe · #**749** 12/27/2007, 06:47 PM

Sounds good barry. BTW, be careful about the new lamps!! Either put some egg crate under them or raise them up, otherwise your corals will get shocked.

You guys are going to freak when you see my new corals from Ultimate...I don't want them to ship until the 7th, but let me just say...WICKED!!

20 20 · #**750** 12/27/2007, 07:32 PM

jnarowe, do you think your dosing sugar had any effect on your dino problem? I've been through a 6 day blackout, another 6 day blackout, I run rowaphos and carbon, I went through an 8 day blackout, with scrubbing the rocks before I started, and on the 6th day, and the damn things are coming back. Haven't tried the sugar dosing, but I'm getting desperate.