voltage

[GaryP]

I get that all the time.

Gary

[alexwolf]

not voltage though, OldSaltycame and tested it, under 1 volt

[Instar]

Alex, Joshua made a good point a few posts back about a bad batch of IO on the market. Are you still using salt from the same bucket to mix new water or is that all gone now? I thought all that bad stuff was gone, but, if you still have issues, I can check it before you use more.

Also, on your wilting softies, move things like that florescent green spag. leather to near the bottom. Softies, other than reef crest things like a yellow figi leather, don't need so much light. See if that helps them some. And, gotta give them from 2 to 8 weeks to recover from that calcium/alk fall out. Snails fall sometimes. Thats the life of a snail. There are times they clean the inside of their shells and loose their footing as well.

[matt]

Maybe it's copper poisoning. Get a GOOD copper test kit; sounds like your inverts are all dying but your fish are not affected. That signals trace copper to me. They could also be starving; unlikely, I guess, but I'm sure it does happen.

Also, I don't know about the effectiveness of a 10 gallon water change in a 135 gallon system with 40 gallons of extra water in the sump/refugium. After testing for copper, I'd consider doing a major water change; make sure you test that water for copper too.

I wish I knew more about stray voltage. A volt sounds like it could be a lot to me, but I really don't know. It's a good excuse to chuck the rios over a cliff and write the terrible company that makes that crap a letter. After I got shocked by my rio, and I'm only the millionth person to experience that, I wrote them a not so nice letter asking for my money back. Funny thing, they never replied....

[wkopplin]

Rio's are the devil of water pumps. They are cheap, so they enitce lots of people into buying them and then they fall apart after a couple of months. I have been zapped by them twice and now have a bucket full of the things in my garage. One of these days, I am going to take them out to the ranch and shoot them all. Anybody want to come?