FarmerTy's 215-gallon SPS Tank

FarmerTy · Sep 17, 2018

Maximus said:
#goawayty

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Maximus · Sep 17, 2018

Dude, I think my bubbles have doubled in size. Do yours shrink up when the lights go off? Darn, I just added another page to this thread.

FarmerTy · Sep 17, 2018

Maximus said:
Dude, I think my bubbles have doubled in size. Do yours shrink up when the lights go off? Darn, I just added another page to this thread.

My bubbles seem about the same on the bounce but the skirt seems to have grown a bit. Yeah, it'll deflate a bit a night I've noticed. I had moved it to a place of slightly higher flow and my bubbles almost disappeared and I panicked and put it back in the original spot again with low flow.

Maximus · Sep 17, 2018

FarmerTy said:
My bubbles seem about the same on the bounce but the skirt seems to have grown a bit. Yeah, it'll deflate a bit a night I've noticed. I had moved it to a place of slightly higher flow and my bubbles almost disappeared and I panicked and put it back in the original spot again with low flow.

Yeah, high flow is the enemy of bounces.

FarmerTy · Sep 17, 2018

Maximus said:
Yeah, high flow is the enemy of bounces.

Just like Maximus' are the enemies of FarmerTy's?

Maximus · Sep 17, 2018

FarmerTy said:
Just like Maximus' are the enemies of FarmerTy's?

Good analogy!

FarmerTy · Sep 17, 2018

So, I have a good story that as long as you aren't the person it happened to, is pretty entertaining.

I was shipping out a Mak Corals Inferno BTA to someone and was heat sealing the bag when it dawned on me... Wait... The larger bags are 2 mils but the setting on the sealer is for the thicker 4 mils bags I sealed last week. Before I could even do anything about it, the bag with saltwater and anemone goes crashing to the ground when the sealer melts right through the bag.

I immediately go to save the anemone first and the water starts to roll towards my brand new Apex EB832 power strip and proceeds to short it out.

Its like 30 mins until FedEx closes so I took one look at the things that were plugged in to the EB832 and assessed that the tank will be fine without those items for 1 hr.

Grab another anemone and package that one up, this time remembering to reduce the heat to seal the bags and I'm off to FedEx!

Get back and spend the next 1.5 hours swapping all my equipment to an old EB8 I had on hand and been running with that ever since.

Today I get to ship out the EB832 for repair... Sigh.

Maximus · Sep 17, 2018

Ouch! That sucks! Couldn't happen to a better guy!

bubbaque · Sep 17, 2018

FarmerTy said:
So, I have a good story that as long as you aren't the person it happened to, is pretty entertaining.

I was shipping out a Mak Corals Inferno BTA to someone and was heat sealing the bag when it dawned on me... Wait... The larger bags are 2 mils but the setting on the sealer is for the thicker 4 mils bags I sealed last week. Before I could even do anything about it, the bag with saltwater and anemone goes crashing to the ground when the sealer melts right through the bag.

I immediately go to save the anemone first and the water starts to roll towards my brand new Apex EB832 power strip and proceeds to short it out.

Its like 30 mins until FedEx closes so I took one look at the things that were plugged in to the EB832 and assessed that the tank will be fine without those items for 1 hr.

Grab another anemone and package that one up, this time remembering to reduce the heat to seal the bags and I'm off to FedEx!

Get back and spend the next 1.5 hours swapping all my equipment to an old EB8 I had on hand and been running with that ever since.

Today I get to ship out the EB832 for repair... Sigh.

That sounds pretty rough. How many things can you have go wrong at once?

FarmerTy · Sep 17, 2018

bubbaque said:
That sounds pretty rough. How many things can you have go wrong at once?

I'm just glad in a flurry I didn't knock down the Alkatronic or knock my new Radions off their mounts and into the frag tank. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

dragon99 · Sep 17, 2018

That's unfortunate. Glad it didn't cause any major issues

HolisticBear · Sep 17, 2018

FarmerTy said:
So, I have a good story that as long as you aren't the person it happened to, is pretty entertaining.

That sucks, so painful. We've all had minor versions of that.

bubbaque said:
That sounds pretty rough. How many things can you have go wrong at once?

Never ask that aloud..

NY_Caveman · Sep 18, 2018

Maximus said:
/unsubscribe

Ha! Funniest post ever.

Jimbo662 · Sep 18, 2018

FarmerTy said:
So, I have a good story that as long as you aren't the person it happened to, is pretty entertaining.

I was shipping out a Mak Corals Inferno BTA to someone and was heat sealing the bag when it dawned on me... Wait... The larger bags are 2 mils but the setting on the sealer is for the thicker 4 mils bags I sealed last week. Before I could even do anything about it, the bag with saltwater and anemone goes crashing to the ground when the sealer melts right through the bag.

I immediately go to save the anemone first and the water starts to roll towards my brand new Apex EB832 power strip and proceeds to short it out.

Its like 30 mins until FedEx closes so I took one look at the things that were plugged in to the EB832 and assessed that the tank will be fine without those items for 1 hr.

Grab another anemone and package that one up, this time remembering to reduce the heat to seal the bags and I'm off to FedEx!

Get back and spend the next 1.5 hours swapping all my equipment to an old EB8 I had on hand and been running with that ever since.

Today I get to ship out the EB832 for repair... Sigh.