Dont Do This!

[ClownBoy]

This is what happens when you feed the fish and then forget to turn the pump back on. This was after 14 hours and I lost a Foxface, 2 shrimp, a Flame angle a Coral Beauty angle a really pretty Red Hawk fish and several snails .... I still am trying to find the Coral Beauty and my reef is completley pulled apart ;(

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[schrocat]

Sorry C,

That's freaking unbelievable.

Was that the bowfront?

[ClownBoy]

Yup, it sure is... F*ing thing is a complete murky mess now.. Oh well at least Ill get a chance to pull those two tomato clowns and that massive anemone out. Why didn’t the tomatoes kick it and the angles make it!!! You should see the funk the Berlin Turbo is pulling!

[tendar]

Angles are usally the first to go when oxygen is low I found this out my self when moving a tank and had to place 4 fish a 26 gallon over night and the power fell to the bottom so no surface agation and the flame back angle died while a 6' naso was breathing a little hard the next day but fine.

This why I liked my wave master pro I have on my 125 when feeding it has a feed button that you push and cuts off the pumps for like 20 min then auto matically comes back on.

Sorry to here about the losses. Its the little things that cost us the most.

[bertoni]

Lab Supplies sells a timer that will shut off (or turn on) for a programmable amount of time when you touch a button. The cost is around $50, as I recall.

[scubadude]

so just fish loss? all those corals are fine i take it?

[casey]

Why do you turn the pumps off? I never turn mine off

[Reinhold]

What a painful lesson.

It just goes to show once again that our reef tanks ride on a razor's edge of stability. I've had two tanks crash in 8 years, and each time it was caused by a miniscule problem.

[SomeHairyOldGuy]

I'm with Casey on this one. Why turn the pump off to feed the fish? I never have. I can see it if your trying to feed some coral. Do fish not have to chase their food in the wild? Just my .02.
SHOG

[Palmetto]

Man, that stinks! Or, it sure looks like it would...

Sorry to hear of your losses. Looks like they were nice fish.

I always leave all my pumps going when feeding. I personally think the pumps help grind the food into polyp-sized pieces for the corals. I leave 'em on and let them blend it up. I only keep small fish in my reefs for the most part, though.