Fay Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 A person that used to import years ago and is no longer in the hobby, Told Frog that he has known of marine tanks crashing and losing everything even to the most experienced. Does this still happen these days? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 No sure as the hobby has really changed in the last 3-4 years, so more info around. All i can say is that you will be lucky to find many people currently that have been keeping marines for more than 5 years. Why would a tank crash, unless someone stuffed up. you cant avoid power cuts, glass cracking etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 I agree the hobby has changed even over the last 5 years. A quick search of a forum like reefcentral, or reefs.org will show you that. I think is is entirely possibly to sustain a marine tank indefinitely without it crashing, given proper maintenance. Acts of God would be the only thing to interfere to cause a "crash". Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted January 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 We had an 11 hour power cut last winter, Frog borrowed the firestation genny for the tanks. We had to hire big ones for the shop in the end, but they still weren't powerfull enough to run our big chiller. P.S. It was the laugh of the town save the tanks never mind the icecreams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 What use is icecream if you don't have a tank to sit in front of while you lick? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 Kind of an odd question...True or false, even the most experienced person can screw something up. Well, yeah. Experience doesn't make you immune to everything going wrong, just makes it less likely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pies Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 I've seen threads on RC of peoples tanks crashing, it happens, but rarely. There is also something often refurred to as 'old tank syndrome'. People whos tanks go past 5-7 years are known to crash, not amount of water changes etc seems to help. Randy Holmes Farley belives this can be attributed to the rock in the tank getting super-saturated by heavy metals etc, and after a while the rock can no-longer absorb it, or starts to leech it back out. There was a big fuss about Instand Ocean and a few other ASW salts that were attributed to this problem, those companies changed the receipe to resove the issue as I understand it. I would like to think you can keep the tank indefinatly, I certainly hope so. Pie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brianemone Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 ive heard of it, but ive also heard of people that have had the same fish for up to 20 years, whether or not thats in the same tank or not im not sure but it made me feel good knowing i can have my clowns live that long if not longer if i do my part Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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