KenRexford
Active Member
Tanks know when you leave, and they are demented.
Every time I leave, something.
Last weekend, one friggin overnight. Teenage daughter (17) at home alone. Good kid, even boring at times, so no fears of boys and beer. But, what if my danged tank senses that I have left?
Sure enough, the return pump blows up, obviously stopping the cycling through the pump. Fortunately, I have my heaters redundant, one in sump and one in tank, so temp not a problem.
When the return pump blew, the alarms on the Tunze Osmolator screamed. That worked as planned, waking up my teenage daughter from all the way upstairs at 3am. She was furious (an upside to the fiasco, as angry teenage girls are hilarious).
The pump's death spasms blew out the power strip. Actually killed it. Not just tripped the circuit, but dead. That power strip was last in a daisy chain of strips, though, so almost all else kept trucking.
The lowered water messed with the (embarrassing I know) hob protein skimmer. Fortunately, plug out plug in was all the tech I needed to know to start that back up again. Skimmer went nuts after that, drawing a ton of foam.
All in all, not a bad fiasco in the end. A few planned alarms, redundamcies, and placements of plugs and an easy restore, with the inhabitants of the demented, cruel tank not noticing much different.
Every time I leave, something.
Last weekend, one friggin overnight. Teenage daughter (17) at home alone. Good kid, even boring at times, so no fears of boys and beer. But, what if my danged tank senses that I have left?
Sure enough, the return pump blows up, obviously stopping the cycling through the pump. Fortunately, I have my heaters redundant, one in sump and one in tank, so temp not a problem.
When the return pump blew, the alarms on the Tunze Osmolator screamed. That worked as planned, waking up my teenage daughter from all the way upstairs at 3am. She was furious (an upside to the fiasco, as angry teenage girls are hilarious).
The pump's death spasms blew out the power strip. Actually killed it. Not just tripped the circuit, but dead. That power strip was last in a daisy chain of strips, though, so almost all else kept trucking.
The lowered water messed with the (embarrassing I know) hob protein skimmer. Fortunately, plug out plug in was all the tech I needed to know to start that back up again. Skimmer went nuts after that, drawing a ton of foam.
All in all, not a bad fiasco in the end. A few planned alarms, redundamcies, and placements of plugs and an easy restore, with the inhabitants of the demented, cruel tank not noticing much different.
