Saved my tank from crash! I hope!

[mrhasan]

Well so for the last 24 hours, its been one of those days when your tank just goes against you! Two incident happened till now:

1. So I had a pump running to my reactor with pellets which I thought to be maxi jet 1200. I wasn't getting enough tumbling so thought something must not be right. I took out my backup pump which I saw was a max jet 1200 and I immediately knew I was running an underpowered one. No biggy! I replaced the pump with MJ1200 and the pellets started tumbling great! After a few hours, i was hearing funny noise coming from the sump. Upon inspection, I saw that the pellets were not tumbling and so I took out the motor and guess what! As soon as I took it out, it made some fizzy sound, tried pushing the remaining water through it and very slight smoke started coming out. I immediately replaced it and the reactor is now off. Will get a new MJ1200 in the evening. Lesson: I am not going to put any more 2nd hand stuff IN the tank.

2. Alongside the pump issue, I was afraid of contamination it might have released so I pumped up the carbon from one back to two back. I also noticed my xenia along with the adjacent corals were not looking good so thought something must have got into the water. Planned for WC and went to bed. Upon waking up at 8, I noticed xenia was not looking its best and so its neighboring corals. Upon closer inspection, I saw a brown buildup on its side and it was leaching! CHEM WAR! I immidiently removed the rock, cut it off and then let put back the rock in. 15 gallon water in making. Lesson learnt: no more "leach-able" softies in the tank. Some of the corals are a bit ****ed right now.