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That was for Yourfishman.

It means that the amount of heat added due to compression is equal to the amount of heat released due to expansion. (Example: 70 degree air at 0psi will be 90 degrees at time of compression at 2psi - 90 degree air at 2psi will cool to 70 degree air at 0psi) Those numbers are fictitious, but representative. Think of a gas bottle - when you vent it off quickly it frost up at the nozzle. That is due to the rapid expansion of the compressed gas. That expansion released energy in the form of heat.

All of that being said, does not account for any heat added by the pump itself. However, your own measurements confirm that the heat transfer is not into the water in the skimmer.

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My Fox Face was shy for the first 4 months I had him in. But my Maroon Clown was tank bully, I removed her, and the fox came out and around in about 2 weeks. Now he swims damn close to my hand... uggg... Just remember, watch the spines on the top fin, the Fox Face can sting you....
 
Dale, Interesting point. SO are you saying that although the airline is very warm, that may be where the heat is dissapating? I have about 10' of airline going to the skimmer, and part of it is submerged.

richfavinger I would expect the maroons to be the bully type and I think that was going on at the LFS, but in this tank they rarely leave the anemone for more than a few seconds and the Foxface has taken up residence about 7' away.

I did see the maroons tussle with the harlequin shrimp. It was for some reason drawn toward the BTA and bot maroons charged it. The female actually grabbed/bit it and finally the shrimp got the message.
 
Dale, I have no idea what you just wrote...how about some layman's perspective? ...

he taalks prretty dont he.;)

Dale no compressed air in my set up. it just all that room temp air giong though a down draft skimmer with 1400 gph of water. im expecting it might make a chiller work twice as hard as with out the skiimer. to keep the water tmp down at 50
 
Anyone following this thread with experience removing ricordia from rock please chime in with some advice. I have to get them off that rock with the yellow sponge as they and the rock itself are being devoured by what i believe is a boring sponge.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7227039#post7227039 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sharkinsand
If you like fish fights get an eel. You see them as they eat the agressive fish:uzi:

I got a snowflake eel a few weeks ago. First week it ate my firefish. I started to feed the heck out of it to prevent further damage. By third week I had a breakout of flatworms. I slowed the feeding down to normal levels and it ate my gobie. So I tore my tank down and cought it (after failed attempts at fishing). I then treated my tank for flatworms. So now I am in the process of "restocking". Tomorrow my daughter and I are going shopping :)

Dale
 
mrcrab Doesn't matter to me. After reading those articles and a couple of threads I am going to pluck those suckers off and let them attach to some rubble...BIG experiment!
 
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