Don't go on holidays

[Joe Reefer]

Oh man that sucks! How did the basement stuff make out.

[TheReefGeek]

Sorry to hear about your loss, that makes me nervous about leaving for 3 weeks next week!

I got a temperature controller for my holidays so that if my tank gets too hot, it will kick off any devices I want, so I am going to power down my skimmer pumps, heaters, and lights until the tank cools off enough, then they will come back on.

And if you go on holidays during the summer, I would put a couple big ass fans blowing over the tank and use a water top off system, if you don't have a chiller.

[rusty]

The sad thing is that I had a fan blowing at the tank/sump.

[guysmiley]

Had the same thing a few years ago which prompted me to buy a chiller. My father in law said he'd never watch the tank again until I bought one!

Sorry to hear about your tank. Come by this weekend, I've got lots of stuff I can give you.


Garrick.

[OCDP]

Sorry to hear man.. that sucks.

I just got back from holidays only for a week... but what I did was have my lights kick on at 5am and off at 130pm . Everything looks great and the tank did very well.. yay.

The heat is a SOB in the summer... but if you can switch your lighting cycle around a bit, it helps a lot.,

[snailbuddy]

I feel your pain . . . the heat claimed many of my corals and all my shrimp!

[Sushiman]

The EXACT thing happened to me, I easily lost the $$$ value in corals & fish that I could have easily bought a chiller. I have vowed to never cheap-out again in this hobby. I'm still rebuilding since this crash.