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My Tank Thread
Amazing thread Scott and what a great run O2manyfish!
Again what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.
Been reefing since 1998 and I live in a country best described as a receipe disaster. Till couple of years ago salt shortage of up to 6 months was a very common occurrence, having to use Chinese products due to non availability of good brads or outrageous prices was the norm (luckily this changed) and maybe the worse is it was a war zone with frequent electricity cuts and also risk off nearby explosions hitting or causing a tank to fail (luckily no incidents here even from freshwater days 10 years earlier)
Worst ongoing thing is daily power failures up to days at a anime in the past but till now a 6-12 hours daily power cut is normal and in summer time up to 20 hours a day is usual.
To make it worse I am a frequent traveler averaging 2 weeks plus of travel per month.
Hope I don't jynx myself but I never had a single crash even when I relocated form3 yrs and left the tank running with my father and sister in the driving seat backed up by daily directives and flying back at least once every 4-6 weeks where I managed water changes and necessary equipment fixes...
All my tanks have been super basic and carefully designed with ongoing optimization so for reducndancy and failure avoidance.
I still have to hook up my Apex and the only delay is my OCD of moving out of my hand made control of every single aspect to a machine with a mind of its own running my system.
Only advice I can give is to learn from any crash or mishap you hear about, dwell into the root causes and think about improvements you can make on your setup.
After years of optimization so 2 days back a friends tank crashed because of a failed chiller feeding pump and this reminded me that both my chillers are run by a single feeding pump so when I'm back I'm either adding a pump in series or splitting the tubing so each chiller is fed by its own pump for redundancy.
Again what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.
Been reefing since 1998 and I live in a country best described as a receipe disaster. Till couple of years ago salt shortage of up to 6 months was a very common occurrence, having to use Chinese products due to non availability of good brads or outrageous prices was the norm (luckily this changed) and maybe the worse is it was a war zone with frequent electricity cuts and also risk off nearby explosions hitting or causing a tank to fail (luckily no incidents here even from freshwater days 10 years earlier)
Worst ongoing thing is daily power failures up to days at a anime in the past but till now a 6-12 hours daily power cut is normal and in summer time up to 20 hours a day is usual.
To make it worse I am a frequent traveler averaging 2 weeks plus of travel per month.
Hope I don't jynx myself but I never had a single crash even when I relocated form3 yrs and left the tank running with my father and sister in the driving seat backed up by daily directives and flying back at least once every 4-6 weeks where I managed water changes and necessary equipment fixes...
All my tanks have been super basic and carefully designed with ongoing optimization so for reducndancy and failure avoidance.
I still have to hook up my Apex and the only delay is my OCD of moving out of my hand made control of every single aspect to a machine with a mind of its own running my system.
Only advice I can give is to learn from any crash or mishap you hear about, dwell into the root causes and think about improvements you can make on your setup.
After years of optimization so 2 days back a friends tank crashed because of a failed chiller feeding pump and this reminded me that both my chillers are run by a single feeding pump so when I'm back I'm either adding a pump in series or splitting the tubing so each chiller is fed by its own pump for redundancy.
