True, including whole tanks. The people who advise against things that may nuke a tank are most often ones that never owned it. I've not meet or talked to a single person who lost their tank to a sea apple. Mine tried to nuke my tank when I put it in with absolutely no results.
Michael Rice
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Michael Rice
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mike your scaring me ..i have heard LFS employees speak like this before ...in the end guess who gets the blame ....err on the side of caution my friend
true i have never owned own
...does that mean they aren't toxic?
just because you have never met or talked to someone that lost their tank to a sea apple ...does that mean it doesn't happen?
because you had a sea apple that tried to nuke your tank with no results
...does that mean that every sea apple is the same and the resulst will be the same?
being that there are enough horror stories out there of sea apples nuking tanks that people constantly warn against it
...do you think we should just forget all about the possibility of it happening and not bother to warn people against the potential consequences or do you think that you may have just been lucky?
true i have never owned own
...does that mean they aren't toxic?
just because you have never met or talked to someone that lost their tank to a sea apple ...does that mean it doesn't happen?
because you had a sea apple that tried to nuke your tank with no results
...does that mean that every sea apple is the same and the resulst will be the same?
being that there are enough horror stories out there of sea apples nuking tanks that people constantly warn against it
...do you think we should just forget all about the possibility of it happening and not bother to warn people against the potential consequences or do you think that you may have just been lucky?
That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm just saying that there is a lot of stuff that gets around the internet that is simply word of mouth rather than experience. All of us come to conclusions based on very limited testing in usually no more than one system. We do science backwards.
Michael Rice
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I picked up a sea cucumber a while back. These animals are very very sensitive to nitrates. I had a nitrate spike and not even 24 hours later it was dead. Like others have suggested, be prepared that if it dies it "can" nuke your tank. Sure it may be possible that nothing will happen like Mike said but it is also very possible that it can nuke your tank. There has to be some truth that it will nuke your tank otherwise every story you have ever heard they are all lying, which makes no sense. GL and keep us updated!
The reason a lot of stuff gets spread is because of rumor and uncertainty.
Reefer#1:
Puts sea apple in tank
Sea apple dies
Rest of tank dies
Conclusion: Sea apple nuked the tank.
Reefer#1 tells #2 about this, and on and on it goes
How does anyone know what really happened? How do you not know that something wasn't terribly wrong with the tank when they put the sea apple in? And it just happened to show signs and die first? It may not of even caused the tank to crash, the tank crashing may of caused the sea apple to die.
Reefer#1:
Puts sea apple in tank
Sea apple dies
Rest of tank dies
Conclusion: Sea apple nuked the tank.
Reefer#1 tells #2 about this, and on and on it goes
How does anyone know what really happened? How do you not know that something wasn't terribly wrong with the tank when they put the sea apple in? And it just happened to show signs and die first? It may not of even caused the tank to crash, the tank crashing may of caused the sea apple to die.
Exactly! All it takes is one sensational story to start false information. I've never heard someone say my tank crashed because I'm a bad reef keeper. There always had to be something out of their control to blame.
Michael Rice
Marine Engineers Aquarium Blog
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Michael Rice
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