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01-29-2008, 04:49 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dayton, Ohio Age: 46
Posts: 366
Karma: 142
   
|  Total and complete screw up!
Woke up really early this morning  All happy and ready for the day! Thinking I have a little extra time this morning I'll change out the MH bulbs and clean up a bit of the salt creep on the top of the acrylic tank. I carefully removed all the little crap I'd been to lazy to put away last night that was sitting by the top of the tank and started to scrape a bit of the salt into neat small piles I could vacuum up. You know those clear suction cups that come on the back of the seaweed clips....I missed seeing it until it was careening toward the right side overflow. Swooooop down she went. This would not have been a problem if I were an Orangatang but alas I am not. That horrible sinking feeling was just reaching full tilt when you guessed it a back up. 
After shutting everything down I calmly grabbed my long handled grabbers and proceeded to jam that baby deeper and deeper into the overflow drain. 
That's ok still only 7AM plenty of time I'll just disconnect the bulkhead get the suction cup out and reconnect. 
Worked like a charm got the blasted suction cup, cursed it appropriately and rushed to reconnect the bulkhead. Can you guess????
Oh yes! lovely cool water about 79 degrees F began gently soaking me a bit like that scene fro Das Boot when the submarine is imploding. Pumps off again...I can be a little late for work..I just need to....JAM THE BULKHEAD NUT CROOKED ONTO THE THREADS!!! CAN"T GET IT OFF>>>>A LITTLE MORE FORCE AND THIS WILL COME RIGHT  OFF. Or not!!!! 
Get the Dremel cut the nut off! YES!! Now just to put in a new bulkhead...slowly and correctly this time. SURRRRRREEE! Like I have an extra 1.5 inch laying around!!!! 
Call every LFS in the city. Found Just 1. "I'll be right there." "hold it for me!"
They did!
5PM this evening. All done! No problem. I even got some income producing work done today!!! 
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180 Gallon Reef, 150 lbs of LR and 4" LS. 4-175w 10k MH. 8-110 W actinic VHO, 2 Wave2K, LifeReef Skimmer . A 90 gal sump, Top-Off. 2Mag 9.5 return, Life Reef CR LCR-1. 1 Cin Clown, Bub coral, Xenia, Purp Tang, Yellow Tang, Pogoda, 4 Gobies, Niger Trigger, Angel, Brittle Star | 
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01-29-2008, 04:55 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toms River, NJ. Age: 30
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and i thought dropping to much food in the tank tonight sucked! Thanks for the pick-me-up! | |
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01-29-2008, 04:56 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
Posts: 4,917
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I feel ya, been there done that. havent we all? _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | |
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01-29-2008, 05:34 PM
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| | Tassled File Fish
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
Posts: 1,998
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are you gonna order more bulkheads to put on standby for the next time | |
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01-29-2008, 06:32 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Thanks for shareing...
We all learn from each other's boo-boo's.
I have made more then my share.  _________ 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..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott") | |
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01-29-2008, 06:59 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
Posts: 3,818
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Sounds like one of my..."it will only take a minute" things. _________ 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 Parameters My 265 Gal. Tank Thread   | |
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01-29-2008, 08:33 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dayton, Ohio Age: 46
Posts: 366
Karma: 142
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Quote:
Originally Posted by reef_guru  are you gonna order more bulkheads to put on standby for the next time | You know I cut it off convinced that I had purchased a spare when I did it the last time.LOL AHHHHHH! | |
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01-29-2008, 08:57 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NE Ohio Age: 31
Posts: 161
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sorry to hear of your morning trouble
at least all is fixed and nothing lost
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72 gallon bowfront ( born FEB 2008 )
2 Yellow Tailed Damsels, 2 Clownfish, 2 Green Cromies, 1 Hippo Tang, 1 Yellow Tang, 1 Naso Tang, 1 Six Line Wrasse, and 1 Coral Beauty | |
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01-30-2008, 07:24 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: niles, ohio Age: 32
Posts: 3,530
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that suck.. Like luna said, we've all been there. _________ My Tank Thread...... EST. 10/30/07 5.5 gal, 72watt's of pc's, rio skimmer, hob rated at 40 gal, stealth heater, b/w aussie clown, emerald crab, turbo, bumble bee, astrea, and nassarius snails, aussie open brain, pink birdsnest, wallhammer, multiple acro's, numerous monti's, zoa's, palys, ppd's, duncans, mint gsp's, reg gsp's, blue clove polyps, grn bali slimer, and tons of ppl sponges. | |
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