Protein Skimmer Power Bar Failure Death Toll....

[kien]

Hindsight is 20/20. It is easy enough to say now that the skimmer going titz up should not have killed your fish, but how could one have predicted that before hand? Like so many people here suggested, their tanks are fine
without a skimmer or powerheads pointing at the surface so yours should be fine too. Well, what happend when the skimmer went offline? How could you possibly account for all possible scenarios that are affecting your thank, many of which are intangible.

No doubt this hobby is tricky like that. It is difficult for anyone to predict these sorts of things. Running BioPellets shouldn't nuke my tank, but can it? Will it? Running ZeoVit shouldn't nuke my tank, but can it? Will it? This heater shouldn't die, but can it? Will it? Turning my skimmer off shouldn't nuke my tank, but can it? Will it?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by kien

but how could one have predicted that before hand?

Not sure of the point here. I don't think anyone is trying to assign blame for not predicting this could happen. It's just more of a surprise that this can happen, and at this point, hindsight is all we have. Point is, stuff died. Maybe some of the suggestions can alleviate it happening again? Or to someone else...

[ensquire]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Not sure of the point here. I don't think anyone is trying to assign blame for not predicting this could happen. It's just more of a surprise that this can happen, and at this point, hindsight is all we have. Point is, stuff died. Maybe some of the suggestions can alleviate it happening again? Or to someone else...

Thats the biggest advantage to cruising these forums, the wealth of info is unparalleled and a real resource as I am now learning.
If it prevents me from having recurring problems and keeps it from happening to others we have acheived our goals..

Fluval is going BYE BYE
Water change to follow

I will post further results

[kien]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Not sure of the point here. I don't think anyone is trying to assign blame for not predicting this could happen. It's just more of a surprise that this can happen, and at this point, hindsight is all we have. Point is, stuff died. Maybe some of the suggestions can alleviate it happening again? Or to someone else...

Agreed, I don't think anyone is passing blame here, nor should they! However, there does appear to be a lot of predicting going on as to how this tank should or should not have behaved in this scenario but it is hard to predict these sorts of things.