InkBird failed on.

[Reaper_Six_Four]

HELP!!

I’m on vacation and my InkBird failed ON!! Temp got up to 84 before I had my neighbor unplug the two heaters.

Are my fish going to die?! I’m running a reef tank with candy canes, Zoas, hammer, GSP, Favia, chalice and Xenias

My fish are clowns, 6line and a Blenny and some inverts.

I’m nowhere near my tank…

 

[JNalley]

HELP!!

I’m on vacation and my InkBird failed ON!! Temp got up to 84 before I had my neighbor unplug the two heaters.

Are my fish going to die?! I’m running a reef tank with candy canes, Zoas, hammer, GSP, Favia, chalice and Xenias

My fish are clowns, 6line and a Blenny and some inverts.

I’m nowhere near my tank…

They won't die from 84 on a short period of time... But, if it gets too cold because it's unplugged, who knows...

How did you verify your inkbird failed on? Just because there was a temp warning? Or can you view and see that the heaters were still on? Did you shut your A/C off before you left the house?

 

[Biglew11]

They won't die from 84 on a short period of time... But, if it gets too cold because it's unplugged, who knows...

How did you verify your inkbird failed on? Just because there was a temp warning? Or can you view and see that the heaters were still on? Did you shut your A/C off before you left the house?

+1 to everything.

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

They won't die from 84 on a short period of time... But, if it gets too cold because it's unplugged, who knows...

How did you verify your inkbird failed on? Just because there was a temp warning? Or can you view and see that the heaters were still on? Did you shut your A/C off before you left the house?

This, there are many variables. Heaters could of been off and the house got hot. I'm reading that the op is on vacation. When my dogs are at the sitters, the a/c stays at 76-77 to keep my tank from overheating.

 

[Reaper_Six_Four]

They won't die from 84 on a short period of time... But, if it gets too cold because it's unplugged, who knows...

How did you verify your inkbird failed on? Just because there was a temp warning? Or can you view and see that the heaters were still on? Did you shut your A/C off before you left the house?I

 

[Reaper_Six_Four]

I left my ac on at 79 (it was still 79 when my neighbor checked, ac functioning) I had him stick a calibrated digital meat thermometer in the tank to very temp and it matched

 

[Reaper_Six_Four]

This, there are many variables. Heaters could of been off and the house got hot. I'm reading that the op is on vacation. When my dogs are at the sitters, the a/c stays at 76-77 to keep my tank from overheating.

We usually keep the house at 73 but left it at 79.

Your theory was mine but then I saw that it the heating trend started at about midnight and rose steadily from there. That leads me to believe it was a controller failure.

 

[Reaper_Six_Four]

Looks like 75 will be the low where I live

any suggestions on how to mitigate this?

 

[Karen00]

I agree that 84 shouldn't cause any issues if it was caught fairly soon but getting too cold will. Can your neighbour take the heater (or heaters... Not sure if one was for redundancy) out of the Inkbird and plug them into an outlet or power bar. If you don't feel the house will cool that much then you should be fine but I would err on the side of caution.

 

[Reaper_Six_Four]

Thank you.

you mean manually set them to ~78? Yeah, I’ll have him do that. I’m always weary of those thermometer actually working. Maybe I should have him set it to 76? Thoughts?

 

[JNalley]

Thank you.

you mean manually set them to ~78? Yeah, I’ll have him do that. I’m always weary of those thermometer actually working. Maybe I should have him set it to 76? Thoughts?

I would lower the house temp to 73 and plug the inkbird back in. It's entirely possible that your tank runs 5 degrees above ambient (the difference between 79 and 84), and your house, if you just left yesterday, probably held most of the cool air until midnight when it started creeping past the point that heaters were necessary to keep it warm...

 

[Vested]

Did the temperature go down significantly after the heaters where unplugged? Talking about trends im assuming you have an apex? Can you setup an outlet for the heaters and ask neighbor to plug them in that?

 

[Reaper_Six_Four]

I would lower the house temp to 73 and plug the inkbird back in. It's entirely possible that your tank runs 5 degrees above ambient (the difference between 79 and 84), and your house, if you just left yesterday, probably held most of the cool air until midnight when it started creeping past the point that heaters were necessary to keep it warm...

I’ll try that.

I have a 30 gallon tank with sump. My temps never fluctuate, but my house is always cool as well. I’m more concerned with being able to cool my tank down or how long before I start losing animals.

 

[Reaper_Six_Four]

Did the temperature go down significantly after the heaters where unplugged? Talking about trends im assuming you have an apex? Can you setup an outlet for the heaters and ask neighbor to plug them in that?

No, still hasn’t gone down.

Not running an apex. Data collected through InkBird app

 

[JNalley]

I’ll try that.

I have a 30 gallon tank with sump. My temps never fluctuate, but my house is always cool as well. I’m more concerned with being able to cool my tank down or how long before I start losing animals.

it won't at 84... Tanks used to run around that back in the Metal Halide days... I wouldn't want to push it too much past that, but as long as the tank starts cooling slowly on its own now, you'll be fine

 

[JNalley]

No, still hasn’t gone down.

How long has it been unplugged? If it's been more than an hour or 2, that confirms my suspicion that your tank runs 5 or more degrees over ambient...

 

[Vested]

No, still hasn’t gone down.

Not running an apex. Data collected through InkBird app

If the temperature still hasnt gone down with the heaters unplugged id bet that it has nothing todo with the controller then, turn the ac down not up until u see the temperature fall..

 

[Thor2j]

I can almost guarantee nothing wrong with inkbirds. You are simply running 5 over your house temp. Very common with heat from pumps and lights.

 

[Reaper_Six_Four]

I can almost guarantee nothing wrong with inkbirds. You are simply running 5 over your house temp. Very common with heat from pumps and lights.

Thank you. That’s piece of mind. I’m hundreds of miles away from home.

 

[Tamberav]

HELP!!

I’m on vacation and my InkBird failed ON!! Temp got up to 84 before I had my neighbor unplug the two heaters.

Are my fish going to die?! I’m running a reef tank with candy canes, Zoas, hammer, GSP, Favia, chalice and Xenias

My fish are clowns, 6line and a Blenny and some inverts.

I’m nowhere near my tank…

Do the heaters not have their own controllers? Like set the heater to 79 and inkbird to 78 so if the inkbird fails or gets stuck on, then the heater will turn off at 79.


My fish survived a tank temp of 90's for a week (central air went out while out of town) during a heat wave. Hottest was 93. I lost almost all SPS and some LPS (torches, elegance so basically the finicky LPS) but most LPS and all soft corals were fine. All fish were totally fine. I have lots of surface agitation.

A temp of 84 isn't a very big deal though it is a swing out of the norm. I used to have a nano that ran 84-86 every summer. No problems. Some parts of the reef get pretty warm.

It used to be popular years ago to run tanks in 80's to try and get faster growth out of corals actually. Plus metal halides were hot.