Please HELP.....

[Jeves360]

Woke up this morning and my 125 was at 94°F over night. I normally keep it at 79°F. I somehow pulled the temperature probe from one of my heaters out of the tank and its been trying to warm up my room temp of 74°to tank temp of 79°.

This must've happened from around 1am which was when I was messing around with it installing a new light fixture. I caught it around 930am.

I had some water ready for mixing and slowly changed about 15 gal bringing it down to 90°. I turned all lights off and lowered my home AC to 70° to help gradually lower temp. It is now 130pm and temp is at 86° since being at 90° from about 1030am.

Everything looks healthy and fine at the moment. Fish aren't breathing too different, Hammer coral and polyps are opened just fine the rest haven't due to lights being off, inverts look fine also.

Should I continue to let the temp drop gradually like it is now? Or should I change some more water and drop it a bit quicker? I have about another 15 gallons ready to go.

 

[r20crazy]

try a fan blowing across water surface/sump... but keep it lowering slowly... rapid change will do more harm than good. can try floating frozen water bottles if you have any... or ice cubes in several plastic bags as dont want the tap water in tank. can hold bags in place with veggi clips

 

[smm52487]

If everything still looks ok, then I see no reason to do anything drastic. Especially since you’ve already been able to bring it much closer to your normal temp.

 

[brandon429]

Lights off probably just saved all your coral I think 99% can take that insult, in the dark much better than daylight

well done reactions

 

[Cell]

Sounds like you dodged a bullet. Stay the course, no need to get impatient now like we did with...nevermind.

 

[DeniseAndy]

Good reaction to go slow. Just keep an eye on things. If they begin to deteriorate, remove them to avoid a full crash. I hope for the best for your system to recover.

 

[Jeves360]

try a fan blowing across water surface/sump... but keep it lowering slowly... rapid change will do more harm than good. can try floating frozen water bottles if you have any... or ice cubes in several plastic bags as dont want the tap water in tank. can hold bags in place with veggi clips

I like the water bottle idea. I have my cabinet open to get air flow into the sump area as well. The ac vent aims almost directly at the tank. Dont have a fan readily available unfortunately

 

[Jeves360]

Good reaction to go slow. Just keep an eye on things. If they begin to deteriorate, remove them to avoid a full crash. I hope for the best for your system to recover.

Thanks. Will keep that in mind. Fairly new build so mainly polyps and a few LPS. I do have an Acro and two Stylo that i know dont like too much change will keep an eye on everything though.

 

[Jeves360]

Sounds like you dodged a bullet. Stay the course, no need to get impatient now like we did with...nevermind.

Thanks and will do. I definitely panicked at the begining 94° just seemed way too high and scary so dropped 5° for piece of mind. Maybe shouldn't have but fingers crossed.

 

[RobB'z Reef]

Woke up this morning and my 125 was at 94°F over night. I normally keep it at 79°F. I somehow pulled the temperature probe from one of my heaters out of the tank and its been trying to warm up my room temp of 74°to tank temp of 79°.

This must've happened from around 1am which was when I was messing around with it installing a new light fixture. I caught it around 930am.

I had some water ready for mixing and slowly changed about 15 gal bringing it down to 90°. I turned all lights off and lowered my home AC to 70° to help gradually lower temp. It is now 130pm and temp is at 86° since being at 90° from about 1030am.

Everything looks healthy and fine at the moment. Fish aren't breathing too different, Hammer coral and polyps are opened just fine the rest haven't due to lights being off, inverts look fine also.

Should I continue to let the temp drop gradually like it is now? Or should I change some more water and drop it a bit quicker? I have about another 15 gallons ready to go.

what type of heaters do you have and how were they setup? Just curious, we can all learn from things like this!

 

[Cole.mormon]

I have a fluval heater. It has precise measuring. I put it on 78 its on 78.2. It was around 40 dollars

 

[Jeves360]

what type of heaters do you have and how were they setup? Just curious, we can all learn from things like this!

I have two Hygger 500w heaters. Both in sump, one in fuge the other in skimmer chamber. I only added a second because i felt just one was running at near 100% between 125 gal display and 55 gal sump.

One temp probe is in the sump the other in main display. I pulled the one from the main display when wire managing my T5 Hybrid I iust added.
It was hanging outside behind the tank this morning.

As I am sure most of us do, I check out the tank everyday in the am usually before heading to work. Mainly because I am paranoid and have had previous builds crash overnight, shorted power heads, anemone in power head, water leaks etc. Luckily i was off today and still did my routine check if not this would be another for the books

 

[Cole.mormon]

Get an magnetic thermometer, and an adjustable heater

 

[Jeves360]

Get an magnetic thermometer, and an adjustable heater

The heaters are adjustable. I can maybe add a more precise thermometer but my temp is usually ok. I technically have 3 temp probes. The two that go to the heaters and a third that came with my Orbit IC Pro lights. They all read about the same. The Orbit IC Pro one is a little off but its also sitting in my return area that holds little water for small amount of time.

This was a one off and accident on my end. Nothing failed, just human error.

 

[Cole.mormon]

Have you deep cleaned the heaters, aka vinegar bath

 

[ScottB]

I had a similar incident a long time ago. Actually a couple now that I think about it. Now with APEX I have a second layer of temperature protection and can rest pretty easy. About temp anyway.

 

[Cole.mormon]

Wb functionality

 

[Biglew11]

this is why we like redundancy, my current heaters don't have thermostats so i need to use a controller. i have this plugged into the apex, the controller controls the heater, and the apex is the backup. you can do the same without apex, plug your heaters into a controler, set the heaters thermostat about 2 degrees higher than you want your tank at, set the controller to the temperature you want to run at. both heaters can be plugged into the same controller.

i realize this was a user error, and not trying to bash anyone, and stuff happens, but redundancy may have prevented this.

 

[Cole.mormon]

Let the apex do it for you, but still be able to do hands on, or be able to change it quickly

 

[ScottB]

this is why we like redundancy, my current heaters don't have thermostats so i need to use a controller. i have this plugged into the apex, the controller controls the heater, and the apex is the backup. you can do the same without apex, plug your heaters into a controler, set the heaters thermostat about 2 degrees higher than you want your tank at, set the controler to the temperature you want to run at. both heaters can be plugged into the same controller.

Absolutely this ^