Never a dull moment in Reefland!

[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

[Delphinus]

Fun times. I almost participated in this because I started typing in a story about what happened to me 2 weeks ago which in the end cost me my large squamosa clam, the largest clam I had ever seen in anyone's tank and coincidentally my oldest clam too. But then my phone ate my reply. The Blackberry Pearl Flip is now universally recognized as the worst phone Blackberry has ever made, which strangely enough doesn't make me feel any better about it but is neither here nor there. Anyhow rather than type it all in again I'd rather not relive the moment. Suffice it to say crappy moments abound in this hobby.

Anyhow, Lance, sorry to hear but at least you've figured things out. Things should recover. I know what you mean about the Foxface, my rabbit is the first to get hysterical about things and actually usually goes into this weird comatose state if startled enough. Weird phenomena, I wonder how that helps escapes predators or whatever it is that makes fish scared in the wild. Maybe it makes them invisible to other fish.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Anyhow, Lance, sorry to hear but at least you've figured things out. Things should recover. I know what you mean about the Foxface, my rabbit is the first to get hysterical about things and actually usually goes into this weird comatose state if startled enough. Weird phenomena, I wonder how that helps escapes predators or whatever it is that makes fish scared in the wild. Maybe it makes them invisible to other fish.

Everything is looking ok now. The big Pocci has stopped sliming and its polyps are out again, and the Foxface has calmed down enough and even ate a little. Rabbitfish are pretty weird all right. I have a large Foxface in the 225g, he's about 7" long. In the evening, after lights out I cover the tank with egg crate panels to stop jumpers. The other night something startled him and he hit the egg crate so hard he lifted the whole panel and moved it a couple of inches. This is a 32" x 24" piece of egg crate! I thought for sure he must have given himself brain damage, but the next day he was perfectly fine except for a couple of small scratches on his head. Dumbass!

[christyf5]

My favorite is the story about how a $1000 controller setup is repeatedly confounded by several tiny brittle stars that make their way into the topoff sensor (and I'm not talking about just hanging around it, actually making it into the space between the float and the cylindrical tube it floats on), raising the float valve and as a result end up dumping half of my topoff water into the sump (half you say?, the valve should only move like a half inch which isn't that much water! no, not in the world of Aquatronica). Nothing like filling your topoff tank with 30 gal of water only to hear the alarm go off at about 2am (I think its programmed to only go off between 2am and 6am, cause thats when its guaranteed you'll be sleeping and it goes off every 5 seconds) and when you get downstairs most of what was in the topoff tank is gone. The first time it happened I was sure there was a leak in the topoff tank until I ended up marking the level in the sump and four days later sure enough there it was again.

My sympathies Lance. There is nothing worse than unplugging a perfectly working piece of equipment to clean it, only to plug it in a few minutes later and its deader than a doornail. Friggin hobby!