well my turn....,
went on vacation last week, left everythng pretty well automated
auto water topoff
four auto feeders
dosers well filled
fastward to friday morning
My office called me to inform me thatthe central air is pushing out 90 degree air and the temp outside was 105
tank temp 85
chiller is not keeping up with the rising heat in the office
turns out that the fan under the stand stopped working, so the chiller was overheating without any exhaust. In other words highly in efficient. AC guy (thank to Jarrett) came around 6 but couldnt fix.
Saturday tank temp 86.1 AC cleaned but did not turn on as con ed knocked out one phase
Then my moms called me to tell that the pond pumps shut down as well
At this point with urging from Jarrett to abandon the vacation early I decided it was the only thing to do
Arrived in NY at midnite, tank temp was 87.1, all the lights were off and the office temp was 110
I opened all the windows and the door. then bought 7 bags of ice and dumped them in the sump
tank temp dropped to 86
I left the front door open but locked the gate and went home
Sunday morning
tank temp 85.5 dumpped 3 frozen gallons of ice into the sump
temp dropped to 84
then I went home to tend to the pond
found all my large fish dead. 21 of them
In the beginning of the spring i counted 52 fish
I took the pumps apart and cleaned them
did a 50% water change
back to the office
tank temp 83, then I dumpped another seven bags of ice into the sump
temp dropped to 82.5, went home but left the door open and gate down
then it rain really hard, outside temp dropped to 83
went back to the office, tank temp down to 81
brought a fan from home and placed aiming at the chiller
locked the doors went home
This morning tank temp was 79!
AC was fixed around 3 pm
tank temp now steady at 78!
Some mortalities
large granulosa from reef bum died, efflo 90% dead
no fish loss
That was my weekend....
