Funny thing happened to my tank last night. I was doing my normal maintenance routine and at the end decided to add a new powerhead. The one I picked attached itself with a very substantial locking suction cup. I positioned it to send a river of water through a channel in my aquascape and started her up. The new flow was awesome and it was putting current in the perfect spot. The fish would sit outside the current, pop in and fight there flow and pop out. It was looking like a nice fun game. After a few hours I went to bed. I had happy dreams.
Then when I woke up and got ready to leave I went to check out the tank. Sand everywhere. Fish lying on their sides as and four inches of deep sand bed was pushed from one side of the tank to the next. Everything buried. Even the leather coral that is at the top of the tank had an inch of sand on it.
The powerhead fell and created a hurricane in my tank. Coral toppled over, a plate coral was completely buried. NOTHING where it should have been.
I cleaned off all the rock and coral the best I could but tonight I will have to aquascape again.
Lesson learned: no suction cup powerheads. Only magnetically coupled ones (like I have always used).
Oh the frustration. Oh and I did make sure the glass was clean and it was secure b4 going to sleep.
Then when I woke up and got ready to leave I went to check out the tank. Sand everywhere. Fish lying on their sides as and four inches of deep sand bed was pushed from one side of the tank to the next. Everything buried. Even the leather coral that is at the top of the tank had an inch of sand on it.
The powerhead fell and created a hurricane in my tank. Coral toppled over, a plate coral was completely buried. NOTHING where it should have been.
I cleaned off all the rock and coral the best I could but tonight I will have to aquascape again.
Lesson learned: no suction cup powerheads. Only magnetically coupled ones (like I have always used).
Oh the frustration. Oh and I did make sure the glass was clean and it was secure b4 going to sleep.