Ouch!My RO system is at my sink I without thinking about it made 15 gallons of tap water salt mix and killed all my invertebrates and coral frags what the heck...
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Ouch!My RO system is at my sink I without thinking about it made 15 gallons of tap water salt mix and killed all my invertebrates and coral frags what the heck...
Could have been chlorine or chloramines. Did you have fish that died too?Yea not impressed.. almost gave up on salt water all together. Must have had very high copper or something
The old siphoning coral by accident is almost like a reefers passage right. We've all done it and those who haven't likely will. Lol. Your coral should be fine. Last week I accidentally got to close to the large trachyphillia and it literally left fluorescence on the drain tube. We've all been there.
I just use a tube without the vacuum end on it. I run bare bottom so I need suction for detritus.I can barely get my siphons to suck up sand let alone corals... Wonder what i'm doing wrong!?
So.....I'm pretty sure I killed a pretty nice double headed hammer today.[emoji36] While siphoning during a water change... I looked away for a moment, and when I looked back, there's my hammer stuck to the end of the siphon tube. Tore pretty much all the fleshy parts away. Don't know if it will come back.... arrrggghh. Anyone else killed their coral while being dumb?
Pouring some water out of bag with new fish over the sink -- garbage disposal side -- to reduce volume for drip acclimation. Big mistake. Fish -- a pearly headed jawfish -- came out of the bag and went right into the disposal. Couldn't get it out for the life of me ....... eventually flipped the switch to make it quick.
OuchPouring some water out of bag with new fish over the sink -- garbage disposal side -- to reduce volume for drip acclimation. Big mistake. Fish -- a pearly headed jawfish -- came out of the bag and went right into the disposal. Couldn't get it out for the life of me ....... eventually flipped the switch to make it quick.
Not a costly mistake, but I felt bad nonetheless... When upgrading my tank, I removed a couple pieces of rock that I didn't want in the new tank and put them outside. About 45 minutes later, my wife asked if I transferred the porcelain crab... There it was, upside down on the ground and a completely different color. She threw him in the tank and nudged at him. In about an hour he had made a full recovery. How'd he stay out of the water for 45 minutes!?!?! Still alive.
Next time I'll be sure to do a better head-count.
Some LPS corals are more tough than most people realize. I am glad yours looks like it will make it.