I came home to find that the temp in my 60g planted had hit 100+f !! For the life of me I could not figure out why the heater had malfunctioned.
See a week or so ago I had this BAAAD green algea outbreak and it wasnt responding to any treatment I tried, so in a last ditch effort, I threw in one of these 8w, 300 gph UV clarifier/sterilizer units I use in other tanks. I figured hell, it cant hurt to toss it in for a week or so, hopefully it would help to stop the algea problem (or so I was told).
So in the tank it went, and it was working just fine, all the little Haitiensis, festaes, and svenis, even my little distichodus and Bcrawler seemed drawn to the new current it was providing. But in all my ignorance, I put the unit in the tank sideways, with the intake about 3/4'' from the heater(big one, 300w I think). And I guess that the heaterwas turned up just a tad to help with an ick outbreak from last month. Do the math, 300 gph intake too close to heater= sveni stew!
When I first noticed the temp I immed turned the heater off and added a couple frozen 20 oz water bottles and the temp started to go down, the haits and festae were looking tired, the distichodus was acting normal but the pikes were hidden (tank is heavily planted and has a mosswall that the teenage svenis use as cover/bedding) . 2 hrs later I check again and on the bottom is a 5.5'' sveni, belly up. Luckily the others pulled through, but how close did I come to cooking all the fish?
S as for the original 5 juv svenis i got to raise and pair up (hopefully) Im down to 2. Wish me luck. I seem to need it.
\ Heres a few pics of the tank and fish .
See a week or so ago I had this BAAAD green algea outbreak and it wasnt responding to any treatment I tried, so in a last ditch effort, I threw in one of these 8w, 300 gph UV clarifier/sterilizer units I use in other tanks. I figured hell, it cant hurt to toss it in for a week or so, hopefully it would help to stop the algea problem (or so I was told).
So in the tank it went, and it was working just fine, all the little Haitiensis, festaes, and svenis, even my little distichodus and Bcrawler seemed drawn to the new current it was providing. But in all my ignorance, I put the unit in the tank sideways, with the intake about 3/4'' from the heater(big one, 300w I think). And I guess that the heaterwas turned up just a tad to help with an ick outbreak from last month. Do the math, 300 gph intake too close to heater= sveni stew!
When I first noticed the temp I immed turned the heater off and added a couple frozen 20 oz water bottles and the temp started to go down, the haits and festae were looking tired, the distichodus was acting normal but the pikes were hidden (tank is heavily planted and has a mosswall that the teenage svenis use as cover/bedding) . 2 hrs later I check again and on the bottom is a 5.5'' sveni, belly up. Luckily the others pulled through, but how close did I come to cooking all the fish?
S as for the original 5 juv svenis i got to raise and pair up (hopefully) Im down to 2. Wish me luck. I seem to need it.
\ Heres a few pics of the tank and fish .
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