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01/29/2006, 10:49 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Hollywood, FL
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broken thermometer in tank!
Just the outer glass, not any of the 'red stuff'...but the little black balls (weights??)...
We got as many out that we could before the sand kicked up and hid a few... are we screwed?? what are those little balls made of and how will it affect our tank? We have 65 gal 75 gal sump w/ protein skimmer a variety of corals misc shrimp, crabs, snails a few chromis' and of course a bunch of live rock We had a hard time sleeping last night, I actually DID have a nightmare...!! Most of our LFs' are not open yet (sunday), so if anyone has any info, please help!! Thanks |
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01/29/2006, 12:15 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Mine did the same thing about 2 days ago, I didn't worry about it too much, I didn't take out the little 'weights', and the real dumb thing I did, I didn't take out the thermometer. Then the next day the red part broke. Now that's all in my tank. oops
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01/29/2006, 12:25 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Alabama
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I believe the liquid is just dyed alcohol (no worries) and metal beads ??? don't know what there're made of---but i would vacuum as many as possible out (along w/ sand that they are buried in). This happpened to me too---but tank was empty.
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01/29/2006, 12:42 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: florida
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Same thing happened to me. I took a magnet and it was able to get all the little balls from the sand bed.
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01/29/2006, 01:14 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Olney, Maryland
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The little balls are probably lead. If so I would get them out.
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