Tank Journal Archive

[slin1977]

Massive power failure in our unit block caused the tank to be off for a few hours, I left work as soon as I found out the news to hook up the battery air pumps. The electrician managed to fix the main cable within a few hours.
The tank dropped a few degrees and then when power was restored the dissolved solution from the calcium reactor clouded the tank.
Ok so not too bad - One yellow Tenius decided it was a great time to RTN , I pulled it out the tank and in doing what I thought was a bright idea at the time ,to blast the rest of the corals with the power head... I managed to suck up my bloody expensive 24 carat torch and turn it into mince !!!! What a dumb ass!

 

[MagicJ]

That sucks

Hopefully the rest of the SPS survive.

 

[Lesley]

Hate power outs.
Sorry that happened :(

 

[Andrew B]

Oh no, bumbed to hear such terible news :(

 

[Sam Parker]

bugger man that sucks. Hopefully everything else bounces back quick

 

[slin1977]

Cheers guys should be all good I hope. Gave the tank a huge hit of amino acid last night - then to top it all my wife asks me the question as to why I don't have a ph controller on the calcium reactor:D

 

[Sam Parker]

she has a point..... LOL

 

[Wrangy]

Well that's a bummer :( knowing your blue thumb it'll be back in no time! ;)

 

[slin1977]

Close shave on two heads!!
No RTN on the rest of the tank. Hope to get my hands on the new Sustainable Reef suppliments and vitamins in the next week.Thier range will be hitting the stores and my tank soon!

 

[slin1977]

 

[Wrangy]

I'm keen as mustard to give these a go!

 

[Jacques Pels]

Ouch... what a bummer. In the planning, I have been asked several times if I plan to put in a back-up system in case of power outages. After living in Asia for 3o years, where it is given, I thought no need here, as we have never had more than a 2 second outage... but now you make me think.
Making good progress with a builder now. Up date later
Jac

 

[slin1977]

Ouch... what a bummer. In the planning, I have been asked several times if I plan to put in a back-up system in case of power outages. After living in Asia for 3o years, where it is given, I thought no need here, as we have never had more than a 2 second outage... but now you make me think.
Making good progress with a builder now. Up date later
Jac

I live next door to a hospital so the infrastructure is regarding electricity is on point..... one half hour power outage in 12 years is a bloody good track record only to be broken by a cable fault in our building. Never expected it to happen.
Yes a certain level of responsibility is required when looking after our precious fish and coral, and that leads to building back up and redundancy in our systems.
I have small fish so at no stage were they gasping for air at the surface, I think a temp drop was almost unavoidable, a ph probe to shut down the reactor is something I have had on the bucket list for a very long time but never got round to ordering.