My maxi-jet 1200 "fell" out of the tube (I suppose that **&&## hose clamp was not tight enough) that feeds the chiller. Since the output was pointed up, it proceeded to pump about 3 gallons of water out of the tank before it tilted in a different direction. As luck would have it, some of the salt water (who knows how much, perhaps 1/2 of it) ran into a heating vent on the floor (how much will that damage my furnace in the crawlspace under the house?), not to mention soaking part of the carpet. (about 1 or 2 square feet of carpet seems wet all the way through to the flooring - will I get mold?).
Ironically, I was just saying in our last weeks heat wave how having the chiller had removed stress from reef keeping. I suppose I should have kept my mouth shut.
It is interesting to note that my Remora AquaC is similarly driven by an upward pointing maxi-jet 1200. This has hung in their tightly for the last 5 months since I installed it.
So, the chiller is unplugged from the electricity, and I have not reconnected the chiller to the pump yet (How long can that sit with its system filled with water but not flowing), but the rest of the system is back up and running with 3 new gallons of water. (I needed to do a small water change anyway)
So, I now am at a crossroads:
my choices are:
1. Reconnect the chiller, ensuring all hose clamps are as tight as possible and resume enjoying my reef (with the fear of this happening again in the back of my head)
2. Go chiller-less, and stress out about those few days a year I get here that are just do darn hot (which will no doubt happen the week I'm out of town) (though even this way, I suppose my Remora skimmer is subject to the same risk)
3. Get rid of the whole system
4. convert it to freshwater.
So, the question is:
1. Does anybody have any iinsight into the carpet and heating duct issue?
2. Does anybody ahve insight into my chooses 1 through 4 above?
Ironically, I was just saying in our last weeks heat wave how having the chiller had removed stress from reef keeping. I suppose I should have kept my mouth shut.
It is interesting to note that my Remora AquaC is similarly driven by an upward pointing maxi-jet 1200. This has hung in their tightly for the last 5 months since I installed it.
So, the chiller is unplugged from the electricity, and I have not reconnected the chiller to the pump yet (How long can that sit with its system filled with water but not flowing), but the rest of the system is back up and running with 3 new gallons of water. (I needed to do a small water change anyway)
So, I now am at a crossroads:
my choices are:
1. Reconnect the chiller, ensuring all hose clamps are as tight as possible and resume enjoying my reef (with the fear of this happening again in the back of my head)
2. Go chiller-less, and stress out about those few days a year I get here that are just do darn hot (which will no doubt happen the week I'm out of town) (though even this way, I suppose my Remora skimmer is subject to the same risk)
3. Get rid of the whole system
4. convert it to freshwater.
So, the question is:
1. Does anybody have any iinsight into the carpet and heating duct issue?
2. Does anybody ahve insight into my chooses 1 through 4 above?