Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[Katrina71]

3am tank stalking. Things in his tank look better. I'd like to thank Polly the wonder cat for giving me the opportunity to check on the tank and R2R a bit.

 

[fabutahoun]

Good Morning everybody !!!

 

[Katrina71]

Good Morning everybody !!!

Is that the feed me pose?

 

[fabutahoun]

Is that the feed me pose?

Exactly !! as years go by he is developing a dog like personality. maybe in few years with training he can start playing fetch.

 

[Katrina71]

Last night reminded me how little I know. How limited we are when things go bad. I'm not sure we could ever handle every situation. Frustrated. Humbled. Honest.

 

[Katrina71]

We may be cutting the frogspawn later today. We'll see.

 

[NY_Caveman]

Mysterious issues are humbling for all of us. We are with you.

 

[Katrina71]

Andrew could tell I was very concerned. I told him how ill prepared I felt. He just hugged me and said "you can't know everything".

 

[Fin]

I have had better luck with SPS and softies. Sometimes I can keep LPS happy for a while, but something always happens. Looks great one day, melting away the next. Hope yours does ok.

 

[Katrina71]

I have had better luck with SPS and softies. Sometimes I can keep LPS happy for a while, but something always happens. Looks great one day, melting away the next. Hope yours does ok.

They are absolutely the moodiest!

 

[Fin]

I have trouble keeping “easy” corals for some reason. :)

 

[Fin]

I had a Finnex titanium heater burn up yesterday inside of my 50-gallon barrel of saltwater. Lots of smoke. My Inkbird temp controller's audio alarm went off and alerted me to it. Glad I was home. I didn't have a GFCI on that outlet. So, I lost 50 gallons of reserve saltwater and a heater. Never had one do that before. I had another Finnex go out, but less dramatically than the one yesterday. Guess I will move on from those heaters, since that is two now that went bad and I don't think either was two years old.

What brand are you guys using? I had a titanium heater in my 140 for 12 years and it was still working when I tore the tank down. I threw it out when I broke the tank down and now I don't remember what brand it was. It wasn't Finnex though.

 

[Katrina71]

I have trouble keeping “easy” corals for some reason. :)

They're all easy until something is wrong. :)

 

[Katrina71]

@Fin you got lucky!

 

[Katrina71]

Tbh I can't remember. I know it wasn't Finnex because so many people had issues.

 

[Katrina71]

Hydor. I had to go look.

 

[Fin]

I have two 300 watt Finnex heaters in the sump of my "new" tank. After yesterday, I may replace those before they even get wet. :(

 

[Katrina71]

We were strongly cautioned against Finnex.

 

[Katrina71]

Last night reinforced my thinking on the new tank. Future frogspawn, torches, or hammers will get their own rock. Also buying the largest bone cutter I can find. My Dremel isn't cordless. That concerns me cutting the frogspawn.

 

[Katrina71]

Any tips or tricks to cutting a branching frogspawn?