Week 50: BRS160 disaster averted! Fixing catastrophes in the reef tank | 52 Weeks of Reefing #BRS160
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http://brs.li/BRS160_Week50 It's Week 50 of 52 Weeks of Reefing, and this week we are calling an audible and putting off fish diseases until next week, and covering tank disasters this week. Why you might ask? Well we narrowly avoided a major disaster with the BRS160 and figured this was the perfect time to talk tank catastrophes. In this week's poll we are asking, "What was the first tank disaster you had to deal with?" If you have any questions or comments let us know in the comments area below. *Legal Stuff* The purpose and content of this video is to provide general information regarding the products and their applications as presented in the video. Aquatic sales solutions, inc. And its officers, directors, employees and agents disclaim all express or implied warranties, in any way, related to the products and their application as presented in this video, make no representation or warranty regarding the products and the application as presented in this video and shall not be liable for any direct or indirect losses or damages of any type, including but not limited to punitive damages, or from personal injury or death resulting from or in any manner related to the video, and the products in and contents of the video. The viewer expressly agrees that aquatic sales solutions, inc. And its officers, directors, employees and agents shall not be liable for any damages or losses related to the products in and content of the video and hereby agrees to hold the foregoing harmless from any such losses or damages.
This worst tank disaster I faced was the 6.3 North Ridge,Ca. Earthquake my 60 gallon fresh water tank was thrown from its stand along with everything else in the house,making a terrifying situation even more so..broken glass,all that water and sand plus the fish I couldn't save...it wasn't until i moved out of California that I got back into keeping aquariums in my home.
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What is your input on grounding probes? Some say there will always be some volts in your tank & others say there shouldn't be?
Then some say dnt ground your system as it can cause electrolysis & poison your fish without you know the reason till its toooo late?
Do you guys have a volt reading in your tank currently. I CANT FIND A DEFINITE answer & i do trust you guys for some reason :-)
EDIT: Sry if someone did already ask this Q.
Thanks guys...
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A good video about stray voltage would be great, I think.
I Just ordered the Vertex Cerebral and want to order the BRS dosing pumps to be controlled by it. I'm now starting to worry that is not possible to do now...
Please can you let me know if I could use the cerebral to control the BRS dosers with a probe monitor.
Buddy had a 100g horse trough that I ran and got, drained water into it along with all my water change bins. Ran the reef inside the horse trough until I got the new tank setup that I found on craigslist that night. The tank wasnt ideal since it wasnt drilled and very dirty, but with my timing I had no choice. Had to drill it and spent hours cleaning it that night. Everything started around 2pm, had the old tank in the garage and the new tank in it's place waiting to be plumbed before I went to sleep that night. Huge disaster averted. I'm just glad it happened while I was home and not while we were on vacation.
Tank was up and running 3 days before we had to leave. Luckily everything ran perfectly those 3 days so I wasnt too worried about stupid stuff while we were gone.
The good that came out of it was the tank stand and canopy are furniture grade so the wife loves it. I also drilled and plumbed for a basement sump since I had the old tank out of the way and had the opportunity to.
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Thanks for the great info in the 52 week series, it has been fantastic, keep up the great work cant wait until your able to ship to the Philippines. I will order all my equipment from BRS.
Tom
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Question: Will a dip in Bayer Insect Killer kill vermetid snails?
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/reefer-xl-525-complete-system-108-gal-red-sea.html
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in 52 FAQ I would really like to see something on moving your tank. I thought I did everything right but I guess not :(
At the same time, sponging all the water that had splashed around (about 3 gallons).
This was on a very packed 25 gallon but we were able to save everything. Only a red dragon suffered a bit.
Had a pump short out blew power to whole tank no damage
Thanks!!!!
As far my worst disaster, Kalkwasser and ATO failures.... learned my lesson there! Do not trust any equipment, no matter how good of a brand that is, they can all fail! My Apex energy bar failed (normal wear and tear according to Neptune Systems after 3 years of use) so relying on the controller to turn off the ATO is not the only solution, you need additional backups in case the controller fails (yes, I know, hard to believe but they do fail horribly). I've switched over to two part using the DOS for my Apex, have a smaller ATO reservoir (I used to have a 32G brute trash can for my 125G reef, now I have a 15G with just RODI water, not kalk) I bought the tunze osmolator and I've redesigned my sump so that in case the ATO fails, all the water that it will dump will still fit into the sump without overflowing into my floors and only impacting my salinity very mildly. I'm still worried that the energy bar will fail on the heater so I got a new one (the one that you guys use) just in case and I will switch it every year. I got extra sensors for salinity, leak detection and PH so that as soon as I detect something wrong my wife and I will get emails and SMS that something is wrong.
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