Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[Scurvy]

Happy Independence Day!

Woke up this morning to a mild disaster in the tank.

ALL SPS white!

Nothing else effected.

I killed 6 aptasia last night with a treatment but I checked pH, ammonia, alk, calc, nitrates and phoshate. Everything nominal. This treatment has been used by hundreds so I highly doubt that's it.

No clue what the heck happened. Even my stunner, which was growing well.

Softies and lps fine except for the stupid lime candy cane which has been on and off since I put it in the tank.

Right now everything looks rough because I removed the dead corals. and had to move a rock to get a coral I knocked over.

Ouch.... hand/arm contaminant maybe? I wouldn't expect it to be the Aiptasia sauce either.

 

[dantimdad]

@dantimdad was it aiptasia x?

No. At this point I don't want to say until I figure out what did kill the corals. I am almost positive it wasn't the aptasia remover. Because I got some of it on my frogspawn and it didn't phase it.

 

[dantimdad]

Wow. No changes other than the product?

Did the skimmer go crazy?

My arm hadn't been in the tank in a few days.

No other changes.
Skimmer cup was off until this morning. Had been off for a week. I don't like to strip too much out of the water and nitrates and po4 have been stable.

I will keep digging.

 

[Katrina71]

@Rakie any ideas on dantimdad's sps?

 

[Fin]

Just went and cut my mom's yard. Man, it is hotter than the 4th of July out there. :-)

 

[Fin]

If moonshine is as good as I imagine it will be I'm there! ;)

The straight unflavored stuff can be kinda harsh, especially the kind they put anti-freeze in. o_O The most popular down south is the Apple Pie. It is deceptively smooth and sweet. Tastes just like home made apple pie. You can get in real trouble with it as you can't even taste the alcohol. The stuff I have is home made (legally) and is 180 proof. Lots of stuff on the market that is labeled as moonshine, which really isn't.

 

[12gallonsofhex]

Dang, @dantimdad, i hope you find the sps bleaching issue and can easily correct it. Sorry to hear about tank setback.

Btw, i figured out my diy ato issue. Somple mistake of switching both high voltage wires through the relay instead of just the hot one.

 

[Katrina71]

2 babies

 

[Katrina71]

I can't help but laugh when they hiss and get all bad.

 

[Katrina71]

 

[Fin]

Ok, I will likely get flamed here, but ... Made the mistake of giving my mother a cute little feral kitten. The cat literally grew up to be the cat from hell. She was as mean as they get. She would sit on my mom's lap and be all sweet - then turn around and bite the crap out of her. Hideously large bites. Got her good once and mom got cellulitis. In the hospital for 4 days. Went home and the darn thing bit her again the first night back. It was time for the cat to go. The local cat shelter would not take her, because she was a biter. Who wants a biting cat? So, she went off to the the local animal control. Ask me if I like cats... :mad:

 

[Katrina71]

@Fin no flaming. I understand your mom's safety comes first.

 

[Fin]

And then there was the feral cat that lived around our house. It had the pleasant habit of catching / killing rabbits, eating half of them and stashing the rest of the bloody carcass in my wife's flower beds. Imagine her delight when she ran across one of those. :-) I saw the cat late one night after a fresh kill, sitting on my carport. Something a little unsettling about stumbling upon a white cat covered in blood at 2:00am in the morning. :eek: Ok cat rant over. Ha!

 

[Katrina71]

@Fin so my schedule is free...want me to deliver one of these? Lol

 

[Fin]

@Fin so my schedule is free...want me to deliver one of these? Lol

Um, nope. Dogs only at this house. :-)

 

[sfin52]

speaking of dogs what do you use for your shedding machines

 

[fabutahoun]

Happy 4th of July Everybody !!

 

[Fin]

speaking of dogs what do you use for your shedding machines

Ha! Good luck. I have a friend in Florida that has this special blower and she takes hers (she has 3) in the back yard and blows as much loose hair off of them as she can. We just brush, brush and brush and vacuum, vacuum, vacuum. All that and learn to live with hair. Their undercoat will shed at least twice a year. Don't want to shock you, but... :-)

 

[GoVols]

@Katrina71

And... to her entire entourage... ;Joyful

Happy 4th!!

:)

 

[Katrina71]

It's storming here. Good thing rednecks shoot off fireworks all week!