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07-08-2008, 09:06 AM
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#11 (permalink)
| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Edinburgh
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Originally Posted by phoenixhieghts  Try finding one in the UK! They only seem available in the US and the shipping costs dont make them cheap at all! |
Maybe I'm being a bit thick here (wouldn't be the first time  ) but aren't you just talking about earthing the tank?
Take a piece of wire, one end goes to tank, other end to a radiator. Job done. | 
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07-08-2008, 09:42 AM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Midlands,UK
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Good idea swede, is this possible guru's , i mean would the wire not get rusty or pollute the tank? _________ Hardware-55G Rena Md,Filstar XP3 Filter, 200w Heater, 1xSeio 2, 1xKoralia 2, Lee's Medium Skimmer, 8x39watt T5 Fish-Yellow Tang, Coral Beauty, Midas Blenny, Clown, Chalk Goby Inverts-Snails, Hermits, Black Long Spine Sea Urchin, Blue Linika StarFish, Cleaner Shrimp, Coral Banded Shrimp, Feather Duster, Green Bubble Tip Anemone, Coral's-Green/Purple/Hairy Mushroom's, Xenia, Button, Green, Yellow Polyps, Toadstool Leather,Finger Leather, Purple tip Frogspawn.  | |
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07-08-2008, 11:34 AM
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#14 (permalink)
| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Water change, water change, water change...
Best solution for any immediate problem ("... is dilution...")...can sort out other issues later.
(grounding probe good insurance)
See:
Re: "Water Changes/Ex-changes"
By Anthony Calfo 
( Webmedia.com)
Good luck... _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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07-09-2008, 01:46 AM
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#15 (permalink)
| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Midlands,UK
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water change was done 25% 2 days ago, but thanks for the heads up...
Thank you paulg, very helpful link...
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07-09-2008, 06:31 AM
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#16 (permalink)
| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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Originally Posted by Stingray I know haveing problems finding one over here, as yet no luck, will keep searching... | Look for a titanium or 316 S.Steel Bicycle spoke and a water proof heat shrink they have a rubber lining that will melt and ooze out when you heat them to shrink them onto the connection Take a wire and wrap it around the spoke and shrink it then just connect the bare end to a know source of path to ground U/K I really don't understand or know the wiring codes or methods as its 240 V for everything and 50 cycles . But in the states the screw that holds the receptacle covers on a good I just wrap the wire there and tighten the screw . _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | 
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07-09-2008, 11:14 PM
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#17 (permalink)
| | Pajama Cardinal
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Shelton, Washington Age: 44
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Did any metal fall into your tank. Have you been doing any work up top. A penny perhaps? _________ 90g HW: 20g L Sump/Fuge, ETSS PS w/Mag9, Ext OF/Rio 2100 RTN, MJ AC 2K3 PH's (2800GPH ttl flow), 300W htr, Gnd Prb, Denitrator, UV, PCs: 2x65, 4x55 Fish: Ylw Tang, LM Blenny, Hmbg, Ylw-tail, Ylw dmsls, Mrn Clown, Coral Beauty, Red Crs Wrsse. Inverts: Snls/HCs, CBS, P-mnt shrimp x2, Sandstar, Condy Anen, Tube Worms. Frags: Frgspwn, Kenya Tree. Corals: GSP, Zoos, Shrooms, Lobo Brain, Turbinaria. Other: 123# LR, 1-2" LS DOB 5/7/08 10g Mtd Pair Fls Perculas, HC/TS, 10# LR, 12lbs LS K-Nano PH AC-30  | |
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07-10-2008, 01:28 PM
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#18 (permalink)
| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Midlands,UK
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no metal, no work, and defo no penny, i know better then that lol... | |
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07-10-2008, 01:31 PM
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#19 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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What about having drunk friends over that play a joke that your tank is a wishing well??? Don't say it doesn't happen because KOgle had it happen. Better check! _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | |
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07-10-2008, 01:33 PM
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#20 (permalink)
| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tulsa, Ok Age: 28
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Originally Posted by Otty What about having drunk friends over that play a joke that your tank is a wishing well??? Don't say it doesn't happen because KOgle had it happen. Better check! | buddy of mine has a oceanic hex tank that's FW, like a 48g or something weird
anyway one of his drunk friends though it'd be cool to see a bud light bottle floating in it
killed everything in the tank
I told him if someone did that to my reef tank they'd end up floating in it too _________ 
24G JBJ Nano, 20# Live Sand, 40# Live Rock
Rose BTA, Kenya Tree, Frogspawn, Xenia, Shrooms, Green Candy Cane, Duncans
Blue/Green Chromis, 2x Black & White Percs, Dragon Goby, Six Line Wrasse, Mandarin Dragonette
58G Oceanic, 60# LS, 60 LR, Lots of goodies 
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