Tank crashes: causes, treatment and lessons to learn.

[Reef Pilot]

Garlic
Selcon
Tangs
Copperbands
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[neoh]

I have several anemones, and I covered the powerheads in a nylon netting, so hopefully that helps.

Even though my bta seems to be liking the bottom of the rocks as of late.. much the the shegrin of the hosting clown.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

• Introducing Atlantic Blue tang and getting Marine Velvet as a "bonus".
• Clams spawning and turning tank into white cloudy, stinky mess.
• Holding live rock for someone as a favour and it turns out to have hair algae/aiptasia which then spreads to your display tank.
• Keeping too many "ick magnet" fish in the same tank.
• Bad salt (anybody remember the Kent salt disaster?)
• Having a boxfish or cowfish or large sea cucumber die and wipe out the tank.
• Relying on an undependable (i.e. stupid) fish-sitter while you're on vacation.
• Having visitors with kids who dump a whole container of food into your tank.

[daniella3d]

LOL!!!

very funny and probably true as well.

So far I had quite a few anemones and never got one stucket into a powerhead. I had 2 sebaes, 1 bubbletip, one huge long tentacles, two maximini carpet, and two rock flower anemones. I must have been lucky. My current anemone is a huge 12'' sebae and a 10'' maximini.

Originally Posted by Aquattro

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water
no water
wrong water
cold water
hot water
looking at tank
not looking at tank
touching tank
not touching tank
Murphy (yes, twice)