TJ_Burton Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 I had the stainless steel reflector on a coralife turbo twist rust up on me which I did not catch for about a year. It killed a clam (which are known to be very sensitive to heavy metals) and made my SPS lose color and stunted their growth. Also I know we use rust (GFO) all the time in our tanks but you have to realize it is of a very high quality. Even that high quality rust some will argue causes pinched mantle in clams. Long story short to combat the pollutants and heavy metals left in my tank I ran cuprisorb which seemed to really help. It didn't take long for stuff to start looking better again. If you absolutely can't get it out I would just always run cuprisorb. But I see this as the absolute final straw decision. I second this; exact same situation happened to me. Luckily my clam made it though. Massive struggle to keep sps looking healthy until I removed the sterilizer and ran cuprisorb. Link to comment
Bingo1213 Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 I second this; exact same situation happened to me. Luckily my clam made it though. Massive struggle to keep sps looking healthy until I removed the sterilizer and ran cuprisorb. You were the one who recommended me the cuprisorb! haha What type of clam did you have just out of curiosity? Mine was a 18 inch long derasa that was around 6 or so years old! Link to comment
TJ_Burton Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 You were the one who recommended me the cuprisorb! haha What type of clam did you have just out of curiosity? Mine was a 18 inch long derasa that was around 6 or so years old! 5" maxima that I had for nearly 2 years at the time. Link to comment
wow.such.chris Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 I can recall reading about someone, maybe a public aquarium, who put a railroad spike into a tank to help w phosphates. Or maybe it was an experiment. or maybe I just saw someone post something about it once... gee a lot of help I am Link to comment
NYfishies Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 XActo customer service actually emailed me back. The body of the blade is AISI 1095 steel and the cutting edge is coated with zirconium nitrade. They have no idea what will happen in a reef tank (somehow I am not surprised - probably never been asked that one before). After the mellowing effects of my self-medication with the BRs and a night's sleep I am just going to try to forget it is there unless Brandon's or my corals and livestock start running for the hills. If they do, my husband may get his big tank quicker than he had hoped. Will get some cuprisorb to run just in case! I have only LPS, a sun coral and mushrooms in there with 2 clowns. Don't have the lighting for a clam and (gasp) I don't care for most SPS. Still looking forward to future updates on the pico razor experiment. Well in that case it is just cheap Carbon Steel and not stainless at all (no Chrome). 0% Nickel. Iron, Fe 98.38 - 98.8 Carbon, C 0.90 - 1.03 Sulfur, S ≤ 0.050 Phosphorous, P ≤ 0.040 Manganese, Mn 0.30 - 0.50 I have no idea what this would mean to your tank though. I would say it is going to rust though. Link to comment
Bingo1213 Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Well in that case it is just cheap Carbon Steel and not stainless at all (no Chrome). 0% Nickel. Iron, Fe 98.38 - 98.8 Carbon, C 0.90 - 1.03 Sulfur, S ≤ 0.050 Phosphorous, P ≤ 0.040 Manganese, Mn 0.30 - 0.50 I have no idea what this would mean to your tank though. I would say it is going to rust though. I have no doubt it'll rust because I have had old xacto blades rust up just from fragging zoas in a tank if I forget to coat them in vegetable oil! It is more a matter of what it will release when it does rust! Link to comment
Hig789 Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 prediction accountability shot https://imageshack.com/i/padjwXc2j aka reefbowl with a razor on purpose aka will this help my micro brittle stars reproduce asexually now https://imageshack.com/i/pbIJ0bnTj Nice choice B. My favorite blades. Link to comment
brandon429 Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 I have never been so happy before for a toiletries purchase heh ten bucks is one yr of fresh razors all the time its amazing. I used to cut my baby face right and left but now am real smooth like my gramps we are a team of cool shavers now. update pics soon mines rusting but nobody minds in the tank. Link to comment
Newstead Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 Thanks for the update, Brandon - all is well too so far in my exclusive XActo tank, except for my psycho red shroom that is always shapeshifting, going walkabout and generally freaking out, but he has always done that -he was just born a rambling man. Link to comment
brandon429 Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 https://imageshack.com/i/p75JvsBpj see how on the left side the fanworm crowns are out, feeder tentacles on the brain and hammer polyps actually touching things aren't minding and some po4 has probably been uptaken lol. Link to comment
Newstead Posted October 15, 2015 Author Share Posted October 15, 2015 Love it - especially how the hamner is trying to touch it. Shave and a haircut? Link to comment
brandon429 Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 I see the polyps actually touch the edge and they don't cut or retract pretty neat Link to comment
Gary.F Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 If you can't get it out, maybe you could cover it with a big old pile of superglue? Link to comment
Newstead Posted October 18, 2015 Author Share Posted October 18, 2015 May try the superglue next water change since I know I will be doing contortions staring at the dang tip everytime I clean chamber 2. Brandon, how is the razor pico doing? Everything in my tank is doing well (fingers crossed) and even the psycho mushroom has settled down again after straddling his rock. Link to comment
brandon429 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 All is fine I claim there will be no long term harm even through full rust and eventual disintegration years from now. My rust has held to just on the edges and the system behaves normally, all corals and micro benthics are normal You know how when they want to test drugs with nineteen known side effects they use rats or rabbits so the small body mass will show effects quicker than a 150 pound human Same here IMO. My system is one gallon and the same density of corals per gallon as any other system of normal size. But I've no skimmer, granular carbon it's all self contained and would amplify bad effects I call case closed. Put money where mouth is and other than a rusty cutter in my reef nothing has changed lol Link to comment
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