Memorial Day Disaster

Nothing makes it past my refugium..
I am feeding fish, not corals..

I target feed them.

CW
"kim gross" wrote in message
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Not for me. When I feed is it mostly food for the corals so I leave all
of my pumps on. The skimmer does not remove to much on the first pass....
and everything the skimmer misses goes back through the pump and into the
tank for a second chance by all of the critters.


Kim


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Automatic feeding Kim.....
Otherwise most of the food ends up in the sump..

CW
"kim gross" wrote in message
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The biggest suggestion I can give from this is to have multiple water
movement devices on multiple circuits so you can not lose all water
movement (oxygenation) with one failure.

Now my question for you is why would you have the main pump on x10. Why
would need to ever turn the main pump off via automation?

Kim



Well I got back from my Memorial Day holiday, and smelled the sort of
sweet-putrid smell of decaying marine life. My five-year old 150
gallon reef tank showed no fish life. The pump was off. I was able to
look at the graphs recording on my aquacontroller showing the rising
heat, and dropping pH which had started within hours after I left home,
and continued for nearly 3 days until I got home. For some reason, the
X-10 controller for my main pump had apparently malfunctioned and
switched off. This did appear to be the problem since it is indeed
broken, and will not switch on or off, while all other X-10 switches
work appropriately.

My beloved clown-fish was gone which had been with me the nealy entire
life of the tank. A beautiful deep blue Acropora Tortusa was gone as
well as multiple other beautiful colorful Acropora, montipora, favia,
two bubble corals along with most of the LPS in the tank. All the
crabs were gone. Forty eight hours post-disaster, and after multiple
water changes, it appears a couple of open brains have survived, about
50 percent of my snails and hermits, torch corals, and candy canes have
survived, as well as most mushrooms. I guess I should be thankful that
it was not a complete melt down, but still it is very saddening to see
the organisms I have nurtured over the past 5 years decaying and
lifeless.