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We're going to be moving long distance (about 900 miles) and I need suggestions on how/if to move my established 46g tank. It currently has two damsels and a bunch of inverts (shrimp, crabs). I can't imaging trekking that distance with water sloshing in a tank. Does anyone have any clever...

Originally Posted by Jmick Seaclown is one of the worst skimmers on the market and require major modding before it will pull anything out of your tank. I suggest removing it and putting it in the garbage where it belongs and buy a more reliable skimmer....just my 2 cents. Pure baloney! They...

Originally Posted by saltn00b i dont remember there being an algae problem in your other thread, how did you fix the electric problem? That thread got so long that I don't even want to try looking for it, but I think I mentioned algae at some point. I never considered it a "problem" until I...

Originally Posted by saltn00b how did you correct the problem, what was it exactly? I'm only hoping it is corrected at this point. My lone damsel is still doing great after 3 days so things are looking up, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for another week or two before I declare victory. IF...

Originally Posted by saltn00b i thought all your fish were dead when we were discussing this last week, you have since bought more fish, totally corrected your strange electrical situation (which you did by doing what?) and these new fish died? all in a few days? No, when I first corrected the...

Originally Posted by Weberian I know this may sound simple and stupid, but anyway... Sometimes bad chemicals can get to the tank from the air or your skin. Have you tried running carbon full-time to maybe remove anything that may be getting in the tank? Thanks, and that's a good thought, but...

Originally Posted by jktenpro I go to the Aquarium Center for the prices on dry goods but would not purchase a fish from them. The store in Hampstead I have not been to yet. I was just wondering which store quarantines their fish. Exotic Aquatics near Towson is where I get my fish and haven't...

Originally Posted by saltn00b dude , you started a whole new thread without all of the info from the last one? we already pegged it in your last thread, you had stray voltage from some sort of equipment failure or something. why dont you continue posting to that thread? have you replaced...

Curious if you have a lot of fast growing algae in your tank? I noticed that my die-offs always occur after the first algae bloom. I recently read that algae can deplete the water of O2 and in some cases, algae has been known to release toxins and kill fish in coastal regions, but I don't know...

Originally Posted by jktenpro I am just curious which store you go to, I live in Baltimore. There are two that I use: Aquarium Depot in Randallstown (used to be Aquarium Center) and Deep Blue Tropicals in Hampstead. Aquarium Depot are the ones who "quarantine" questionable fish and don't put...

Originally Posted by Nick76 How are you adding fish to your tank? Are you using a QT? How long has it been running? I use the drip acclimation recommended here, but I've tried other methods: no difference. I don't use a QT because my lfs effectively does that for me. I go there all the time...

Welcome to the club! I have the EXACT same problem with my 46g right now. And... it has happened twice. The first time it happened, once all the fish died, I sterilized the tank and started over. For me, I cycled with damsels and the damsels did perfectly fine *while* the tank was cycling...

Never mind. Woke up this morning and the BC was dead. Now I'm down to no fish in the tank again. I guess I'll leave the tank fishless for a month or so and then maybe try one fish. I get the feeling there is some fish disease lurking in the tank because I've never lost an invert. Are...

After pulling my hair out and being just about ready to give up due to losing so many fish in my tank, I have found that the Bangaii Cardinal is the only fish that can survive in my tank, along with the inverts. I've had at least a dozen fish die including oscellaras, marine betta, and damsels...

Very interesting, and believable. I know a little about electricity but next to nothing about how it affects fish. For now, I've done the best thing I can do. There's a titanium grounding rod in there and the voltage reads near zero. I've already tried eliminating all the machinery one by...

Electromagnetism does just travel through the air and can induce a current in something that it is not touching. That's how inductive pickups work on timing lights, that's how some AC power detectors work, and that's how you can get noise/hum from running some cables too close (and parallel) to...

Originally Posted by stdreb27 Now think about this, this thread isn't about the copper, but about the voltage in your tank. Something isn't sealed. That is what you should be worried about. Not how to channel the electricity out into the ground. Agreed, but when I unplug things one at a...

I have titanium in there now. I had a titanium exhaust flange clamp. It worked perfectly. I put both nuts on one side of the clamp to clamp down the copper wire to the clamp and then just hung the other side over into the tank. Works perfectly and cost me nothing. Another oddity has turned...

Originally Posted by seannmelly i dont think copper in your tank is a good thing But probably better than 72v until I can get something that doesn't corrode as much! I don't think the copper will be a problem over a day or two. Mike

OK, just measured the amperage with the grounding rod out: 3 microamps. That's 3 ten millionths of an amp. Not sure that's significant enough to affect anything. I'm not even sure how the meter is able to read voltage with that little amperage. Mike