jnguyen4007
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My father in law came over on Sat morning and put in 2 20 amp circuit breaker and mounted 2 dual GFI outlets for me. We also had company all day that day, I didn't get around to moving the DC8 over to the new outlet. Around 6:30 AM on Sunday, the power tripped again where the DC8 was connected to. My cell phone was down stairs so I didn't find out about it until around 10:30 when we came down stairs and were ready to head out. The tank's temp reading was around 71. Since we'll be out all day, I decided to move the DC8 over to the other side of the fish tank so it's closer to the new outlets and plugged everything back in. All of my wires were labeled so it was easy to know which wire plugs into where on the DC8. I verified that the heater was running again and the temp probe was in the tank. Everything looked good so we head out. Every hour, I received an alert showing me the tank's status because of the temp still lower than where it was supposed to be. 6 hours later, the tank's temp has gone up to only around 74. Still much lower than where it should be. When we came home around 10 PM, first thing I did was see if the heater was on and it was but it was barely producing any heat. I calibrated the temp probe to make sure it was working properly and it was. So it seemed that my heater somehow crapped out and no longer functioned like it should. I pulled out the 250W jager heater that I had in my fresh water reservoir for my discus. Washed it with the RO/DI water, then insert it into my sump. I programmed the ACIII to have that jager heater run as a second heater and prayed. This morning, I saw that the temp is back to 80.4. I don't know to what the extent the long cold might have damage the corals or harm any of the fish. I can only wait and see and hope for the best. 2 lessons learned. 1) have my cell phone next to me at night and not down stairs where I can't hear it in case of an alert from ACIII. 2) I need to have two heaters in the sump in case if one fails.
James
James
