dangros

Crazy tangs. So now the bully occasionally gets bullied. If it gets aggressive, the purple now goes after it instead of running away! Seems they tend to be fine most of the time, however. The aggression seems to come when I approach the tank and they want food.

In case anyone cares, here's the status of the tang wars: I found a handheld mirror and hung it up against the glass by some dental floss. Very classy, I know! At first sight, it's been a disaster. I have 3 tangs in the 90. The purple is pretty small and the smallest of the 3. Then the bully yellow, and the largest being a white tailed bristletooth which I think is the prettiest fish in the tank. The bristletooth was the most docile of the 3 and wouldnt bother anything since it came to the tank years ago. When I put the mirror on, the yellow darted at himself. I thought "COOL! It's working perfectly!". Then the bristletooth took its turn at self annihilation. That was a shock given I never saw it being aggressive. Once the bristletooth began to dominate the vanity wars, the yellowtail resumed kicking the purple around! Fortunately, my wife came up w/a brilliant idea and remembered we have a large 4 foot mirror hanging on a door. I pulled that off a few minutes ago and set it against the entire side of the front glass. The lights are out so we'll see what tomorrow's vanity wars bring

Not sure whats up w/the PM, maybe b/c I just rejoined a minute before the post? I'm going to try the mirror for now. My intent is to go to the meeting but w/the kids, I may not be able to. I'll keep you posted. I just want the fish in a good home w/a good, established system so it lives happily, no need to pay if the mirror fails.

ah I forgot about this. Let me try it. GREAT idea and thanks for posting. I'll absolutely try it. These guys have been here for almost 10 years so I'd prefer to keep them. Any recommendation on the type/size mirror and where to place it?

I have a yellow tang which is bullying my smaller purple tang. I've had these fish for years. I'm not sure why it's getting worse but I have captured the tang. I was going to take it to Reef Escape but it's 1/2 away and schedule is killing me today. My tank has been solid (clowns are even breeding) with no introduction of new animals or corals for years - so it should be safe. PM me if you want it. I live in Reston - Dan

No I don’t. The only nerve problem I have is keeping my nerves when stupid stuff like this happens. It’s probably my return pump. It went bad and am replacing tonight, actually.

So I found out that most of the electrical readings are due to induction. The problem is, I have no cuts and I did feel it that one time. placing my fingers in salt water does not create that zap feeling. It only happened once and it was in the basement. I’m starting to think there is no leak and it was something else but I can say for sure that it was NOT a cut and it happened when salt water ran out of my DoS hose. I will continue to monitor. At least my probe is now bringing the induction current readings to 0.

Funny you are. That doesnt really help b/c each item adds some AC voltage so it's difficult to locate the actual leaking device. The video shows what I'm seeing

Thanks MODreefer. This video explains why I couldnt find it. (he has an ad in the middle of the vid, you can skip by fast forwarding)

While working on the tank, I felt a slight sting in my finger which I took as an electric charge. So I took a multimeter, stuck the red probe in the water and the black probe in the ground/3rd hole of the outlet. Sure enough, I got 30V on the multimeter!! I systematically turned off each electrical item in the tank but the multimeter never dropped to 0. Removing some pumps seems to drop or even increase the current but I'm assuming that they are acting as poor grounding probes when they are off which may explain why I see current dropping when I restore them... In any case, I'm very confused and worried that I may have a dangerous situation. I have a grounding probe which helps but obviously isn't the correction I'm looking for.

That’s what I did. I had a nice new tank and didn’t want to trade it in for a beat up one. That’s why I went to Bud. After a few years of salt on it, I’m not as married to a container plus it’s pretty much tucked away where it’s difficult to see. Thanks for the info guys. I actually had a scheduled surgery the day after getting the tank swapped. Having the calcium reactor stop working that close to being away from home is stress I didn’t need. Luckily it all worked out!! So again, thank you.

I need to renew my membership then

Thanks Piper! The Stirling location is actually closer then Buds. I'll check it out

It seems that Bars By Bud is now gone! Not only was it a well priced place to refill my CO2 tank but Bud was a really nice guy with whom I always cracked a joke or 2 during my fills. Sucks to see the place go. Anyone know of alternatives?

Zoas are starting to interfere w/my SPS. I would probably love something to get rid of them at this point!