lol I love piglet!!!

yay

Having a good kit to use doesn't go astray either it would seem Maybe if you tried to sweet talk it, y'know, put on some candles, turned the lights off and played some Barry White they'd slow down? I hear that works on all kinds of things. Especially the ladies.

Best looking hair algae on NR.com! See if you can sell it!

You're back!


'Let's... get it on.'


Haha, want a frag??

i wants it ALLL i need to feed my sailfin blenny

Is that an invitation? 'cos I know at least like 20 people on here who'd pay for photos. Let's make it happen.

your pictures are gorgeous! What lens are you using?

i like piglet and mandy

Your place or mine? (Please say yours, I want to see Australia )


Thanks! Canon Digital Rebel XT w/ Canon 100mm macro.

Australia? See, we could do that but the problem is you'd never wanna leave again Why limit it to either? Let's take this thing on the road! Tourbus and all. Arena style.

that's the lens I want!! I want it even more after seeing your pictures lol

Beautiful tank & photos Lalani!

Well then, DO EET!


Thanky!

You sure like to dance in a naughty manner eh? I can dig it. In fact, call me a shovel.


ps. your tank needs at least 5 more Sharks.

When I think things can't possibly get any worse..........







One of the three lunar lights I attached to the tek fixture fell into the tank today... Couldn't have been in the water any longer than a minute before I noticed, but apparently that's plenty of time to pi$$ everything off.. A few zoas have started to open up again (hours later)..

Blah.

water+electricity= FAIL

aww man that sucks... hope everything gets better. does the light still work? or did it short-circut?

I had an R2 moonlight attached to the part of my canopy that swung open, so if I didn't close it carefully, it would pop off an into the water... and there was never a problem. None of the inhabitants seemed to notice if it fell in (for extended periods sometimes) and it always worked after I let it dry out. Until it got rusty at the connections, and I had to get another one. That reminds me, I still have no moonlights! What kind do you run lalani?

Setosa seems to be losing color...


The light was still shining while it was in the water. The connector is corroded, but if I clean it out and let it dry it will probably still work.


Mine are R2s, I think. I dunno, see pic a few posts down.

Just rinse it will & let it dry out. Hubby saved many a TV & appliance after hurricane & intercoastal flooding. He took TV's out behind the shop & rinsed the insides with a hose. You have to be sure it is good & dry or it will short. Hope everyone recovers OK.

I've been thinking about getting LED moonlights to see the tank at night, but all these horror stories make me nervous.

If you do decide to reuse it after being dried out, make sure it's been rinsed of any salt thoroughly or it will screw out and runs the risk of catching fire. If it was freshwater you'd be in the clear, but because it's been in salt water the chances of it ever drying out fully while the salt is still there is virtually zero...

Suxorz.

What part(s) of the electrical bits were exposed to the water? It could have run much current through the tank and the voltage would be low too... I wonder why everything freaked out.

I'd also be more worried about the PCBs or components corroding from the SW exposure.

If you rinse it right quick, you minimize risk but it's no guarantee that it will work.

Thanks guys. I really don't care if the light still works or not, I'm just worried about the tank right now.. Everything still seems to be struggling, except for a few zoas. I did a small water change, but I'm mixing more sw for a larger one.

Isaac, the entire lunar light was in the water. Good thing they float.

I guess I don't know what the fixture actually looks like.

I don't recall... Do you skim this thing?

no she doesnt

Kim doesn't believe in skimmers, sumps and the like. I'm suprised she isn't using a undergravel filter.

And no, I don't use a skimmer.

Those aren't the same as the R2 I had... they look like the Current USA ones. The one I had was a hollow clear plastic tube with black endcaps, and the PCB/lights always stayed dry on the inside. Pretty sure it was waterproof...

Keep your head up....lets hope everything bounces back!!! Good Luck..

I see two holes for screws there.....how did that fall in?

Did the base break?

Meh, anyway I hope everyone cheers up soon.

Sorry to hear about the misshap. I'm sure everybody will be fine.

good luck w/everything recovering, chiquita

How do they look today?

I thinks lanlan is hunting for eggs.

lani how's tha tank...stop playin'

I hadn't gotten a chance to drill holes into the tek fixture to attach them that way. I used that double sided, super sticky tape that I've used before to hang crap on the wall and all kinds of places. It's never failed me before...

Update: Fish/crabs/snails/shrimp are all fine. Hammer is seeing tissue recession on the stalks, frogspawn is slightly bleached and shrunken, setoso is bleached but not completely gone yet, two types of palys are shrunken and losing color, orange ric is slightly bleached.... everything else seems to be recovering alright.. Moved the blue clove frag into the frag tank and it looks better. Going to do a water change in a little bit.... *sigh*

damn it! that sucks

Have you iodine dipped the unhappy guys yet?
They'll heal faster.

Haven't dipped anything, and frankly I'm afraid of stressing things more. I just finished a water change and I moved the rock with some of the palys and the setosa into the frag tank. Some of the palys are opening up again already. Whatever else still seems to be struggling tonight I'll most likely move into the frag tank until things are under control again.

Have you got a GFI for your tank, Lani? I'm not sure if it'd do much for what I assume to be a 12VDC application, though it's possible hitting the water caused a current spike in the tank and everything has gone into electroshock... were the fish swimming less directed or breathing heavily directly after? That'd be a pretty good indicator...

Shouldn't be much current running through that fixture...

Nah, no GFI. I live dangerously, lol.
Like Fosi said, there shouldn't be much power going through those little LED lights, so I can't imagine a lot of electricity passed through the tank. The fish were and still are fine, showing no signs of stress when the light was in the water and thereafter. All of the CUC are fine also, it's just the corals that have been affected.

The lights were still off when I left the house, but it does look like some things are opening back up again. The frogspawn isn't looking too hot, but I think it'll bounce back. The setosa still has a tiny bit of color to it in the frag tank, so hopeful it may recover.

Good luck with the recovery!

This is just another sad example that only bad things happen fast.

doesnt take a whole lot of amerage to do massive amounts of damage. Even as little as .2 amps cant seriously mame a human for life. Voltage doesnt mean jack. so just imagine what as little as .02 amps could do to a fish, remember class water is an excelent conductor of electricity.

Get a GFCI it's cheap insurance for your tank & the romex (or bx cable) thats behind your walls. OH & they only cost $5 or so.

I can write a DIY for those that need it (tho i would assume no liability if you zap yourself). it litterally takes 5 minutes. The hardest part is figuring out which circuit breaker to turn off.

If there was only a little current running through the tank a GFCI wouldn't have done anything anyway.

^^^^^^^ this, gfcI wouldnt have helped in this case.

Yowza. :\