Did me. Main pump just quietly cut out. It's an Iwaki---they can decouple the impeller core to protect themselves, while continuing to run. But not pumping. So sounds the same, but water's not moving. We think the power did a soft-glitch and stalled the pump.
Lost the tank. We've been working outside on a project and collapsing exhausted in the evening after supper, and just didn't realize what was going on.
One survivor, who also survived our 8-day winter power-out with snowstorm with no generator. That's one tough fish. Also at nearly 5", and a domino-type damsel, a dascyllus, not the fish you can slip new roommates in on without her taking exception---think largest-possible maroon clown: same disposition. So I'm going to have to catch her and hold her in the sump during re-colonizing the main tank, and she is not going to be happy in a 10x10" space---plenty of oxygenation and flow through, but not a whole lot of swimming space. It's the only place to put her while I let other fishes establish territory. Going to move some rock around, too, to remove her landmarks. I think she is going to just have the big tank to herself until I can get time and focus to deal with this. But heck-darn-it-all. I probably would have lost her too except the heater also glitched out, and the tank hit 72 degrees (cold water holds more oxygen than warm)...Corals can take this sort of thing better than fishes. I've used a combo of Prime and Polyfilter to try to handle the ammonia and consequent chemistry---no way to extract the demised ones, naturally well under the rockwork. I have to trust the cleanup crew.
Lost the tank. We've been working outside on a project and collapsing exhausted in the evening after supper, and just didn't realize what was going on.
One survivor, who also survived our 8-day winter power-out with snowstorm with no generator. That's one tough fish. Also at nearly 5", and a domino-type damsel, a dascyllus, not the fish you can slip new roommates in on without her taking exception---think largest-possible maroon clown: same disposition. So I'm going to have to catch her and hold her in the sump during re-colonizing the main tank, and she is not going to be happy in a 10x10" space---plenty of oxygenation and flow through, but not a whole lot of swimming space. It's the only place to put her while I let other fishes establish territory. Going to move some rock around, too, to remove her landmarks. I think she is going to just have the big tank to herself until I can get time and focus to deal with this. But heck-darn-it-all. I probably would have lost her too except the heater also glitched out, and the tank hit 72 degrees (cold water holds more oxygen than warm)...Corals can take this sort of thing better than fishes. I've used a combo of Prime and Polyfilter to try to handle the ammonia and consequent chemistry---no way to extract the demised ones, naturally well under the rockwork. I have to trust the cleanup crew.
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