searoyalwulf
Member
Hey everyone, some of you may have already read about this in a different thread. I first talked of this in response to another members disaster.
I had been on vacation the first week in Aug and near as I can tell the circuit breaker on the wall outlets for my tank had tripped just 48 hrs after I walked out the door (thur). Well as luck would have it I wasn't able to return the day I had planned to come home (Tue).
My car died in Sacremento and I had to abandon it there and hitch a ride with my brother and his family on their way home, which got me home Fri morn. Well, when I opened the apt door the smell hit me. It seemed all my fish & corals were dead, the water was so cloudy I could barely tell what was living or dead. Among the dead.
Fish
1 Foxface Rabbit, 1 Longnose Hawk, 1 Lawnmower Blenny, 1 Scooter Dragonet and 2 Green Chromis.
Corals
3 Colt Corals, 1 anenome, 1 Toadstool Leather, 1 Yellowstar Polyp, 1 Greenstar Polyp and 1 Frogspawn. Most of which were frags I picked up at the LFS's.
Plus about 8 Turbo Snails and 8 hermits..
But all was not lost. I discovered my two Perculas in a column of water isolated by the corner overflow.
Well... Now the tank is recovering slowly... I have algae coming out of my ears. I even discovered a surviving coral, ID is unknown thus far. Looks like either a star polyp or zooanthid. I'm really quite new to reefing so I don't know my species all that well.
Anyway, I do as Cougra suggests and do a complete power loss test regularly. I want to make sure it won't flood the apt and check to see that everything starts up as it should.
So I surge ahead with plans for rebuilding and restocking.
I did do a little power mod as well. I discovered the tank wall was on a 15 amp breaker and was able to switch the wires with a 20 amp breaker meant for the kitchen outlets.
I had been on vacation the first week in Aug and near as I can tell the circuit breaker on the wall outlets for my tank had tripped just 48 hrs after I walked out the door (thur). Well as luck would have it I wasn't able to return the day I had planned to come home (Tue).
My car died in Sacremento and I had to abandon it there and hitch a ride with my brother and his family on their way home, which got me home Fri morn. Well, when I opened the apt door the smell hit me. It seemed all my fish & corals were dead, the water was so cloudy I could barely tell what was living or dead. Among the dead.
Fish
1 Foxface Rabbit, 1 Longnose Hawk, 1 Lawnmower Blenny, 1 Scooter Dragonet and 2 Green Chromis.
Corals
3 Colt Corals, 1 anenome, 1 Toadstool Leather, 1 Yellowstar Polyp, 1 Greenstar Polyp and 1 Frogspawn. Most of which were frags I picked up at the LFS's.
Plus about 8 Turbo Snails and 8 hermits..
But all was not lost. I discovered my two Perculas in a column of water isolated by the corner overflow.
Well... Now the tank is recovering slowly... I have algae coming out of my ears. I even discovered a surviving coral, ID is unknown thus far. Looks like either a star polyp or zooanthid. I'm really quite new to reefing so I don't know my species all that well.
Anyway, I do as Cougra suggests and do a complete power loss test regularly. I want to make sure it won't flood the apt and check to see that everything starts up as it should.
So I surge ahead with plans for rebuilding and restocking.
I did do a little power mod as well. I discovered the tank wall was on a 15 amp breaker and was able to switch the wires with a 20 amp breaker meant for the kitchen outlets.
