*&*&^%$### what a day!
I got up late with little really worrying me other than my temp has been rising. I have a chiller that I haven’t ever put in, so i thought 45mins, get a pump, connect the fella and things will be sorted.
how wrong!
I got a pump with ease, but then i needed more space in last chamber for the pump, so my phosphate canister got shifted to the top up reservoir. that meant the tubes were too short making a dripping noise. as i had it out i serviced it, replaced all the medium and lost a screw holding the lid down. then i fought the tube to get it on. as in seriously battled. 45mins and swearing i get new lines on it and that was the phosphate sorted.
then i serviced my return pump. cleaned and sorted it. while doing that i disconnected the hose and sprayed the couch (shut up mike! I’m serious I don’t want to hear it! ) and sprayed the electricity. sorted that crap out and the return is going far better, it really was dirty.
then i replaced two 54W tubes.
then i got a kalkwasser canister dispenser and tried to attach that to the auto top up. that was a bridge too far as i doing have connectors to take it from 10mm out flow of the auto top up into air line hose, don’t actually know how I will do that either.
then i did a 15% water change.
so 45mins easy Sunday project on my tank lead to 4 hours hard labor and a wet spot on the couch.....hmmm sounds like a normal Friday evening!
Then I placed a second temp probe in to find a distinctly lower reading from the one I had in…..pulled the old one to find its stuffed and that the temp wasn’t that high to start….but at least the chiller is inJ
I got up late with little really worrying me other than my temp has been rising. I have a chiller that I haven’t ever put in, so i thought 45mins, get a pump, connect the fella and things will be sorted.
how wrong!
I got a pump with ease, but then i needed more space in last chamber for the pump, so my phosphate canister got shifted to the top up reservoir. that meant the tubes were too short making a dripping noise. as i had it out i serviced it, replaced all the medium and lost a screw holding the lid down. then i fought the tube to get it on. as in seriously battled. 45mins and swearing i get new lines on it and that was the phosphate sorted.
then i serviced my return pump. cleaned and sorted it. while doing that i disconnected the hose and sprayed the couch (shut up mike! I’m serious I don’t want to hear it! ) and sprayed the electricity. sorted that crap out and the return is going far better, it really was dirty.
then i replaced two 54W tubes.
then i got a kalkwasser canister dispenser and tried to attach that to the auto top up. that was a bridge too far as i doing have connectors to take it from 10mm out flow of the auto top up into air line hose, don’t actually know how I will do that either.
then i did a 15% water change.
so 45mins easy Sunday project on my tank lead to 4 hours hard labor and a wet spot on the couch.....hmmm sounds like a normal Friday evening!
Then I placed a second temp probe in to find a distinctly lower reading from the one I had in…..pulled the old one to find its stuffed and that the temp wasn’t that high to start….but at least the chiller is inJ