Rebel
Premium Member
Close your eyes and try to remember all the mishaps with your tank: floods, spills, corals knocked into other corals, etc. Now think about them happening while you are on vacation. That's what it's like trying to maintain the reef at Columbine HS.
Yesterday, after celebrating the capture of a yellow-tail damsel on day 11 of the trap in the tank, I decided to hook up one of the brand new Koralia eco 1400s. I have two that I will put on a wavemaker (once it arrives). So I hooked up one. Scraped the glass clean, wet the suction cup, and attached it and put the magnet suction cup on the back. Sweet. And plenty of flow.
After a great mtn bike ride today I decided to stop by school and feed the tank on my way home. Came in to find the powerhead hanging loose from its cord and blowing full force straight into the sandbed. Massive hole (luckily the rocks are huge in that area so they didn't tumble) and sand everywhere. EVERYWHERE! I have a great monastrea frag that was completely buried. Had to dig for it. Two new small clams that I pur on the rocks were in the sand--that was now on the rocks. One half covered. Corals at the top of the 30" tank had sand on them. The whole six foot tank had sand throughout it. Aaarrggghhh.
So after a good half-hour of blowing the sand off the corals only to have it float around and land on other corals, finally settling it, I of course reattached the Koralia. These are recommended for larger tanks--don't they know that larger tanks have thicker glass? Why put such a whimpy magnet on the suction cups? As a precaution, I put the strong side of my cleaning magnet on the back side.
Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions for solving it?
Cheers.
Yesterday, after celebrating the capture of a yellow-tail damsel on day 11 of the trap in the tank, I decided to hook up one of the brand new Koralia eco 1400s. I have two that I will put on a wavemaker (once it arrives). So I hooked up one. Scraped the glass clean, wet the suction cup, and attached it and put the magnet suction cup on the back. Sweet. And plenty of flow.
After a great mtn bike ride today I decided to stop by school and feed the tank on my way home. Came in to find the powerhead hanging loose from its cord and blowing full force straight into the sandbed. Massive hole (luckily the rocks are huge in that area so they didn't tumble) and sand everywhere. EVERYWHERE! I have a great monastrea frag that was completely buried. Had to dig for it. Two new small clams that I pur on the rocks were in the sand--that was now on the rocks. One half covered. Corals at the top of the 30" tank had sand on them. The whole six foot tank had sand throughout it. Aaarrggghhh.
So after a good half-hour of blowing the sand off the corals only to have it float around and land on other corals, finally settling it, I of course reattached the Koralia. These are recommended for larger tanks--don't they know that larger tanks have thicker glass? Why put such a whimpy magnet on the suction cups? As a precaution, I put the strong side of my cleaning magnet on the back side.
Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions for solving it?
Cheers.
