LokiInGT

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Out of curiousity how much water were you cooling with this? I am in the market for one since the one I have just started leaking but I have quite a bit of water (310 gal).

Jestep, yes I agree, I am going to open the inside of the cable today so that maybe I can share out some further information. The one thing that really makes me scratch my head is that they did an initial repair on the controller for the same problem and sent it back to me with no mention of water damage. I plugged it in for about 4 to 5 hours with it still not working after I received it back and then packaged it back up to send it back again. This time they opened it up and stated it had water damage even though it was mounted in a dry, water safe place with no way water could get to it drip or by cable drip. The cables literally go down and under a wall, through a plastic water seal and then up the wall to the controller..

I am still wondering if I didnt just peave the Neptune Systems guy off and he set this up. They don't state that they have any kind of warranty so I guess I was lucky to get any response at all.

AquaJohn, this probe was listed as fully submersible and it was fully submerged but not very far down (cable run to get to the tank was pretty far). It could be that they should not list the probes as being submersible and I would have mounted it where this could not have happened. Of course now I will never trust submerging one again, hahahaha.

Had some fellow reefers over yesterday and we were trying to figure out how moisture made its way into an Apex controller that sits in a place that there is no moisture (just dust). It appears that moisture somehow made it through the inside of the PH probe cable and into the controller. Even this is crazy to imagine, because the controller sits in sealed entertainment center under a TV (and beside a Wii, HTPC and stereo receiver) with the probe running first down and under a wall and then up and over the back of the aquarium to the side of the entertainment center. On top of this I have plastic and rubber rapped around the cables as they go under the wall. There is no sign of water on the outside of this cable or anywhere else but sure enough it is inside the coax plug of the probe. I was able to dry it out and clean it up a little on Saturday, and by today it had moisture in it again.

Unfortunately Neptune Systems claims the water damage is my fault and will not fix the controller.

Has anyone else here besides the few folks I trade emails with experienced this problem with Apex PH probes ?

There is definitely an instance of it occurring on another brand but just curious on the Neptune Systems stuff.

Thanks Patrick, it was nice to be able to share an awesome hobby with others who enjoy it also..

Looking forward to the visit from everyone ..

sounds very good

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I think I will make it...

Looking forward to it, there will be drinks and snacks. Come on out and enjoy the country a little bit...

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Heading into Austin again anytime soon ?

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Yes this is correct

Reduced to $200 to get rid of it.

The stand is not in the best condition, previous owner did some cutting on it. The tank needs to be cleaned up but had no leaks when I took it down 2 months ago. The upper canopy has 4 - 48" reflectors screwed in, and hinges that make for very easy tank access.

I do live in Lago Vista so it may be a little bit of a drive, let me know if you would like to come see it. I may entertain trade of a fairly decent size skimmer, possibly MH or LED lighting or even some decent colorful frags.

I plan on being there ..

Do you still have the birdsnest available ?

Great meeting, especially since I was one of the lucky ones to get raffle goodies. Thanks again for that...

It was definitely nice to be able to put some faces to the names online. I look forward to the next meeting and hope to see some more of the folks from the forums there.

I planning on making this my first meeting if there is still some space ..

I am going to try to make this one, will be my first ..

Thanks I have added some peppermints already but they did not seem to even be making a dent in them. I have removed the one rock that had probably close to a hundred on it and I am letting it bake in the sun a few days before I try to recycle it. The 50 or so left I guess I will try the lime juice injections on. Any advice on how much lime juice I can use before there is an impact to PH or other inverts/verts in the tanks? I did finally see some positive identification as Majano Anenome on another site...

I appreciate all the feedback

Last year I bought a rock from RCA with a very cool set of Rock Anenome growing in a patch that looked very interesting. Since then they have multiplied in force and I just happened to get a look at the back side of the rock up against the back glass and realized they had managed to get everywhere.. Thought someone might have some ideas on controlling these since they are not Aiptasia and I don't know if the regular methods would work on these . I will post a few different pics to see what you think.

thanks,

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