jrod4u
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Picture this: You receive a package late afternoon on a cloudy, cold, wintery day. Excited, you tear open the package to receive new food, cyclopeeze, and also a new powerhead, totaling 3 in your tank. You assemble the powerhead together, then introducing to your inhabitants. Plug it in and VOILA it works. Now just making sure the head is pointing in right direction you want. Perfect, just where I want it. Fast forward to few hours. Just laying your head down on the pillow, slowly drifting off to dreamland. On your way there, you hear a faint thud, and just think, well we also have a 180lb newfoundland and they tend to make little thuds now and then, when sleeping or pretty much whatever they do, hehehe. Anyway, thinking nothing of it, and you sleep. Next morning, wake up, looks like we will have sunshine today. Enroute to coffee maker, take a quick glimpse of the tank walking by. Nice to see everybody waking up in the morning. Take a second glance and all you see is what appears to be snow covered mountains and valleys. You then realize possibly the small thud you heard last night was the sound of the newly installed powerhead, upon falling and landing, has created a underwater hurricane. You rush to turn the power off to the powerhead, and grab a better glance. Well you can see the eggcrate and some bottom glass. Great. So you begin the process of cleanup, involving a sea squirt to remove the sand from the rock, and starting to coverup the crater that had been formed. After that, you make sure your corals, inverts, and fish are still around and did not jump ship. All is well to your surprise. If there was no sump, you fear this could have been much, much worse than it was. Glancing at the tank with everyone sound asleep, you breath a sigh of relief that a crisis although not really averted, but dealt with calmly and rationally. The new fan re-installed, is well anchored and working properly. Tank will be monitored the next few days. It is really surprising how much this hobby teaches you with dealing with situations calmly and sometimes rational. LOL
