Never a dull moment in Reefland!

[fishoholic]

How annoying, hopefully the coffee helps and you're able to figure it out.

If it makes you feel any better I have a busy reef day today too. I plan on shutting down my 20g cube and moving stuff over to the 230g reef. However since I haven't been doing much upkeep on the 20g I have to take whatever sps I want to keep and re-attach them to different rock, bring the sps I don't want to my friend, and I have to scrub all the unwanted algae off of the rock I want to keep (mostly the rock the zoas are on) and add it to the 230g display. So much for my relaxing Sunday of doing nothing. Now I'm thinking it would be easier to do the water change on it and leave it running for a bit longer Guess I can't procrastinate forever though!

[PoonTang]

Don't feel too bad Lance, I have flooded my house 3 times in the last two weeks.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by PoonTang

Don't feel too bad Lance, I have flooded my house 3 times in the last two weeks.

And you're still living there? Or in the doghouse in the back yard?

[Cranky When Wet]

Hear you loud n' clear and know the pain.

Question: by any chance was the freaking power bar one of those "programmable" ones?

I've had issues with those. A few power bumps and some (not all) of the plug-in slots stopped timing process (or reset to nothing, who knows).... lost all smaller life forms in my nano tanks. Beginning to think I need a windmill and solar farm in backyard but city bylaws don't allow total freedom of expression.... dang them to _ell.....

Hope the rest of your day goes better man,

Curious Bunny

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Cranky When Wet

Hear you loud n' clear and know the pain.

Question: by any chance was the freaking power bar one of those "programmable" ones?

I've had issues with those. A few power bumps and some (not all) of the plug-in slots stopped timing process (or reset to nothing, who knows).... lost all smaller life forms in my nano tanks. Beginning to think I need a windmill and solar farm in backyard but city bylaws don't allow total freedom of expression.... dang them to _ell.....

Hope the rest of your day goes better man,

Curious Bunny

Nope, just an everyday power bar from Canadian Tire plugged into a GFCI.

[PoonTang]

Originally Posted by Lance

And you're still living there? Or in the doghouse in the back yard?

Of course! If I didn't then who would clean up the mess? First one was when my son decided to rince the dog puke out of her blanket and threw it in the laundry sink turned on the hot water then walked off to have breakfast. The wife found the flood about 1/2 hour later. There was atleast 40 gal on the floor because we had completely run out of hot water. Second event was a broken pipe due to the recent cold snap and me not remembering to take the garden hose off the tap. Good flood that one too, cost me some drywall and insulation. Last one was my ato started to back syphon into my kalk bucket. Put atleast 5 gallons of salty kalk water onto the hardwood floors and out into the hallway carpet. So they all come in 3's don't they? Hopefully I'm done

[marie]

Night before last I was ready for bed and went down to top up my sump and found water on the floor and the sump down 4" (about 3G of water on the floor). After checking everything I found a loose fitting on the calcium reactor that was leaking, drained the calcium reactor, tightened the fitting, checked the pump and took the opportunity to clean the impeller.
After it was all back together I stayed up for another hour to make sure it wasn't leaking....water was still dripping, Grrrr. Checked everything, touched the cap on the pump and water started pouring out, I hadn't replaced the cap on the pump correctly...so drain the reactor again......I got about 2 hours sleep that night

[spawn]

Yesterday while doing my weekly water change the pump I use for the re-fill wouldn't go, so I threw it off the deck. About 5 mins later went got it played around for about 20mins & got it going because I don't like buckets. Moral of the story for me is to wait about 25 mins before throwing things.

[kien]

Sweet! A "something went terribly wrong and I need to vent" thread!

Last weekend I noticed that one if the lines on my doser had fallen off. There are two lines that attach to the doser head righ? Guess which one it was?? Dosed a weeks worth of calcium onto the floor of my stand.
Lucky for me I had the forethought to raise my controller and doser off the floor in case of a spill or leak otherwise it would have been much uglier..

[Lance]

Originally Posted by marie

Night before last I was ready for bed and went down to top up my sump and found water on the floor and the sump down 4" (about 3G of water on the floor). After checking everything I found a loose fitting on the calcium reactor that was leaking, drained the calcium reactor, tightened the fitting, checked the pump and took the opportunity to clean the impeller.
After it was all back together I stayed up for another hour to make sure it wasn't leaking....water was still dripping, Grrrr. Checked everything, touched the cap on the pump and water started pouring out, I hadn't replaced the cap on the pump correctly...so drain the reactor again......I got about 2 hours sleep that night

D'oh