Help!!! 97d F. Tank!!

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apayne

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Hi all,

I just had a very high tank spike 97d F. Arg!! Everything is dead!! :( :(

I put the LTA in a different tank to see if it was still alive, not sure if it will make it.

I lost a very nice pair of mis bared black and white ocellaris. Luckily the only other thing in the tank was the LTA, but still a bummer. :(

Well I guess my question is does any one think the LTA can survive an unknown time at 97d? It does not stink yet, but it was totally deflated but rigid. Once i put it in the tank, it lossened up a little, but is still deflated. I do not want to nuke my other tank, it is 40 gallons, but I would like to save the lta, I have had it for over 1 1/2 years.

I know the tank good yesterday when I fed the tank at about 4pm, but I do not know when the temp started up.

FYI the Ranco controller temp probe fell out of the water and was reading air temp, so on it went and up went the water temp.

Well at least I know my heater works.

Aaron
 
97 is pretty high. What was your normal temp? Did you let the temp swing at all?

About a year and a half ago the same thing happened to me -- cool fall night, windows open, temp probe out of the water....

By the time I figured out what was going on the temp was 89*, and I guessed the probe had been out of the water for 6-10 hours. Prior to that I had my temps swing from 78-83, and I didn't lose anything. Include a clam, SPS, and 2 S. Haddonis.

So, there still might be a chance for yours, I wouldn't give up hope but would keep a very close eye on it.
 
i am so sorry to hear about this.

i unplug my heaters during the summer. and highly recommend everyone get some form of aqua controller to help with temperature....
 
Well no stink yet, but I think it is starting to disintegrate :( .

My tank fluctuates from about 79 to 81 degrees.
I am not able to unplug the heaters (wish I was) because I live in the Sierras and just the other night it was 34d. We like to leave the windows open at night to cool the house off.
I did a quick temp acclimation, but I figured 97d is no good, so I did not take my time like usual.
The only other thing I found that might be alive is 2 small mussels, we will see.

Thanks for all the kind words and word of encouragement,

Aaron
 
Well I think the nem was dead from the beginning, it just was not smelly yet :( .

This is a good lesson for me, and hopefully others out there will learn from my mistake, make sure all probes are secure.

Once again thanks to everyone for the input and kind remarks, but there was just nothing to be done this time.

Aaron
 
Ouch horrible! :(

One thing I do on my controller.. while not foolproof... It may help cover some scenarios where a heater may go wild and boil the tank.

The general logic (an example):
If temp < 76 heater on
If temp > 78 heater off
If temp < 72 heater off
If temp <72 email/text warning
If temp >82 email/text warning

Maybe someone could write up something better. It isn't foolproof, but may help.

The logic is.. the water temp likely won't drop from 76 to 72 all that quickly. If it drops below 76, the heater will kick on and bring it up. If the temp does drop quickly to below 72, then the temp probe is likely to be out of water OR out of wack. So the controller (should) cut power to the heater. I leave the house at 66-68 normally during the the cold months. This is below the ~72 degree threshold.
 
Sorry about the loss.

Just get a heater with a temp knob on it and tune it to 2-3 degrees above your desired temp. If the controller fails, then the heater should turn off at a survivable temp. If the heater fails, then the controller turns it off.
 
I will do something like that in the future. Unfortunatly that tank is toast, I cleaned it out and started the rock drying.
Total loss :( :(

Aaron
 
gweston said:
Ouch horrible! :(

One thing I do on my controller.. while not foolproof... It may help cover some scenarios where a heater may go wild and boil the tank.

The general logic (an example):
If temp < 76 heater on
If temp > 78 heater off
If temp < 72 heater off
If temp <72 email/text warning
If temp >82 email/text warning

Maybe someone could write up something better. It isn't foolproof, but may help.

The logic is.. the water temp likely won't drop from 76 to 72 all that quickly. If it drops below 76, the heater will kick on and bring it up. If the temp does drop quickly to below 72, then the temp probe is likely to be out of water OR out of wack. So the controller (should) cut power to the heater. I leave the house at 66-68 normally during the the cold months. This is below the ~72 degree threshold.
Click to expand...

The problem is if the air temp is between 72 and 76 this won't work. It will stay in the 'heater on' mode. You are right to have a narrow range of temperature though. But, like the above poster mentioned, I wouldn't turn the heater all the way up even with a controller (just in case).
 
this is quite unfortunate...This is why I buy good equipment. I have my heater on a controller and regardless the heater is only set for 79*. So, if my controller were to fail I would not have to worry about it swaying to far from the +/- 1* my heater is set at. Take this as a lesson learned, we all go through them!
 
The truth is that this would have happened to me as well if I had a controller. When looking at controllers, most of them say to just turn up your heater and let the controller do it's job. Thanks to this thread when I eventually get a controller I will be sure to set the heater appropriately. Might have saved me from a future disaster. Sorry for your loss, but thank you for sharing to help the rest of us avoid having the same problem.
 
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