Dave's next upgrade(man cave)

[dave_C]

so a little update for you guys

will be stepping up the time line on this build to the start of sept

big lesson learnt last night, came home from my trip up to edmonton late sunday never check my tank. want to work, never check the tank got home last night power was off. turned everything back on, all fish are now died and all corals looks half died. the temp had dropped to 66 degrees so it must had to been out for more then 12 hours.


one of two thing will be installed into the new tank
1) come up with a way to install a backup to ran everything if the fuse pops again
2) come up with a way keep power to my damn controller so it can notify me when power goes out

or do both!!!!!

anyways after this little incident i have decide to have my other company go in, install a new sub panel to my fuse box for the fish room and beef the electrical wiring in the basement. i have three 15 amp circuits to the current tank, so the new tank i think i will have go with 8 15 amp circuits
circuit 1) lights/lights for quarantine tank 1
circuit 2) lights/ pump for quarantine tank 1
circuit 3) heaters/ lights for quarantine tank 2
circuit 4) heaters/ pump for quarantine tank 2
circuit 5) skimmer/return pump
circuit 6) power heads/ ato and mixing tanks
circuit 7) controller/ pumps for media reactors
circuit 8) exhaust fans/misc things
this way if any fuse blow the tanks still should be ok for a while i think

one last thing, since i have no clue as what cause the fuse to blow(worked five years with out problems) and it now has been running fine for the last 10 hours, not a single piece of the current equipment will see the day of light again once this tank shuts down. Ok now i am done with my little rant, damn this hobby sucks some times


oh since i am depress this morning i decide to set up 120 gallon tank at my office today to keep me occupied until the new tanks starts i will post some pics once i clean out what i stuff in here

thanks Dave