Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?

[sleeman]

Well, I had had problems with my sump design from the get go. My overflow brings down tonnes of bubbles, and no matter what I try I can't control them. Anyways, after about 6 months of messing around I finally stuck a ball valve on the overflow and restricted it to a syphon. Can you see where this is going?
I knew that if the power went out I would either overflow the tank or be home to open up the ball valve. Well, I was on night shift last night, got a late call and rolled in at about 11am this morning. From what my wife knows the power went out at about 10 pm and came on at 2 am. I guess the pump came on overflowed the main tank, luckily onto a power bar which then tripped the GFCI. The RO top up then kicked in and refilled the sump. Here is what I came home to. An unkown amount of water overflowed, luckily cherry hardwood is very absorbent . Tank was at 75 degrees and specific gravity dropped from 1.026 to 1.023. All the corals look good, and I have so far lost a Coral Beauty (which I fed to my sebae(hopefully the gigantic marshmallow chokes on it)))and maybe lost a Royal Gramma. When I got to the tank I could see the Regal Tang on it's side but still breathing. Within 1 minute of turning the pump and skimmer on he was up and moving and I now see him poking his head out of the rock.

There are about 4000 flat worms on the front glass as well. Should I be worried about all of them dying? Should I do a water change?

Needless to say, I will be starting to build a new sump this week. The sad part is I have had all the acrylic in the garage for the last 5 months. Once again, caught by procrastination. It could be worse, the GFCI could have not tripped and I would be buying a new Mag 18 as well.

I'll post an updat in 24hrs to see what else has perished.


Does anyone in Edmonton have a table saw with a blade for cutting acrylic?

Cheers,

Al