Hey Guys
A big catastrophe hit my tank this weekend.
The power went out in the middle of the night. The siphon break on one of my return lines were cloged and so the siphon didn't break.
Result:
a third of my display drained into my sump. A good 100L to much for my sump to hold.
The water went through my living room all the way onto the patio :swoon:
I felt like dying.
My tank DT was now only two thirds full exposing half my live stock to air for half the night!!! My clams, Acro's, Zoa's ect.
Found my Butterfly on it's side. All ym shirmps lay around and looked dead.
I wanted to burst out in tears.
I switvhed on the power. Big nono. I was so distrought I didn;t notice that the water in my sump was all over my lights.
Sparks flew, then some flames. Power went out again.
At this stage I really felt like dying.
I drained some water, Disconected the lights and most electrics.
Switched on again and filled my DT slowly.
Looked like most of my stuff was dying. I added airlines to pump in O2.
Drove at 120km/h to the LFS and got 100L water.
Changed water and began the big clean-up operation.
I sent my Acro's to Geoffrey to recoperate under his MH, since i only run T5's.
The rest of my stuff started showing signes of live slowly as the water heated up and O2 returned to the water.
In the end I only lost two pumps and one lighting unit in my sump.
Wow. All my live stock is still alive!. For now anyways.
Some of the fish have whitespot now after the shock.
All else looks O.K.
Moral of the story.
Check your siphon breaks regularly and make sure they work and is not getting cloged with Caroline algae!!!!
A big catastrophe hit my tank this weekend.
The power went out in the middle of the night. The siphon break on one of my return lines were cloged and so the siphon didn't break.
Result:
a third of my display drained into my sump. A good 100L to much for my sump to hold.
The water went through my living room all the way onto the patio :swoon:
I felt like dying.
My tank DT was now only two thirds full exposing half my live stock to air for half the night!!! My clams, Acro's, Zoa's ect.
Found my Butterfly on it's side. All ym shirmps lay around and looked dead.
I wanted to burst out in tears.
I switvhed on the power. Big nono. I was so distrought I didn;t notice that the water in my sump was all over my lights.
Sparks flew, then some flames. Power went out again.
At this stage I really felt like dying.
I drained some water, Disconected the lights and most electrics.
Switched on again and filled my DT slowly.
Looked like most of my stuff was dying. I added airlines to pump in O2.
Drove at 120km/h to the LFS and got 100L water.
Changed water and began the big clean-up operation.
I sent my Acro's to Geoffrey to recoperate under his MH, since i only run T5's.
The rest of my stuff started showing signes of live slowly as the water heated up and O2 returned to the water.
In the end I only lost two pumps and one lighting unit in my sump.
Wow. All my live stock is still alive!. For now anyways.
Some of the fish have whitespot now after the shock.
All else looks O.K.
Moral of the story.
Check your siphon breaks regularly and make sure they work and is not getting cloged with Caroline algae!!!!