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How 2 Keep a Kid from %$#@'n up your Tank....


fishez4alivin

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About a month ago, my step daughter's came for their summertime visit. I was a little concerned about one of the girls trying to overfeed, mess with the tank. Well my worries became reality when two events happened immediately after their arrival.

 

My tank's main power supply had mysteriously been yanked out of the socket, leaving the power off for like 12 hours+, everything seemed ok, except for an Acan colony, frogspawn branching, wall frogspawn, and two high$$ scolymias. Those corals got mildly bleached out, and are recovering.

 

Two days later, my purple tang was found next to the tank....

 

Alright, I was getting a little pissed off now, too many coincidences were happening. So I did what I had to do to end all the BS...Nope, didn't spank em....I had them set up their own tank.

 

We would have the two tanks side by side, and they could learn all about reefing. I decided to use their tank to recover the corals. So originally I was going to run a 10G into my sump and be done with it. But since their tank is their tank, and I didn't want to chance another mishap, I took a 10G TruVu hex tank, and made it into an AIO....

 

10G TruVu Hex tank with custom Acrylic back chambers, no false wall on this tank, its added volume around 4 gallons added volume.

 

Dual fans

50W heater

30# sand

15# rock

Chalupera

MJ900

 

Back chambers

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Fans

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First Aquascape, notice K3 controllable, too much flow even with it turned way down.

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FTS

 

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Good thing this one didn't get affected

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True Perc

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filefish949

I just zap the lil brat with a tazer, problem solved

 

j/k

 

some how my boy just knows better, he doesn't touch the tank and dose not touch the projector screen, guess that is how he made it all the way to age 3

 

now my wife is a whole nother story, cam home one day, i knew she had been gone for an hour, ther is flake floating in the tank, lots of it

 

ring ring ring

 

honey, is there somthing you want to tell me?

 

no sweetie, why?

 

did you feed the fish..?

 

well maybe a little too much fell in the tank, i thought the fish would eat it

 

 

 

ok her idea of "little too much fell in the tank" is 1/3 of 9 oz nutrafin flake omgomgomg

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when i was a young boy, i guess my dad had a saltwater tank (all i ever remember is a couple freshwater tanks... but that doesn't matter).

 

Apparently, I enjoyed throwing things into the SW tank. Being almost a clone of my father, I don't know how I am alive today to tell you I did this. I have my own SW tank now (much cooler than his, though)... I'd kill somebody if they threw a ballpoint pen into my tank (like I did 20 years ago)

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