My first time away from the tank, wish me luck.

[kmbyrnes]

Congrats on getting away. Hope your tanks are fine.
Does anyone see the irony of a reefer catching fish? Especially with bad beer?
Seriously though, we go away often, from 2 days to 10 days. Leaving today for a 10 day RV trip.
So far we have been lucky. That said, never do anything new just before vacation, portion the food, have a good tank sitter and tell them to call for anything odd.

 

[Bent]

Are your breakers maxed out? I have one circuit that blows if I forget and plug my hairdryer into it, it can handle everything else but just barely.

Either way, I would put that in the "deal when you get home" compartment. You have a sitter for emergencies, and an auto-everything for dailies, and a bunch of computers for curiosity. If I were you I'd only bother with stuff I can do something about, and if I can't do anything I don't want to know. You set everything up really well. You have a good shot at most of it being alive when you come home. That's a win. The ranges on controllers tend to be very tight. If it's a temp dip of 5 degrees I wouldn't fuss. If it keeps dropping, maybe call the sitter, but remember that metabolism slows at low temps so it's a far preferable sitch than cooking the tank and your sitter has a good chance of making it worse.

Tl;dr vacation harder, deal with it when you get home :beachbum:



You won't find a bigger beer snob than me, I can blind taste and tell you the hop varietal. If you happen to catch me on the beach this is what I'm sipping

Snobbery is the harbor of the pitifully unimaginative.

Where can you find that at?

 

[slief]

Well it happened today.

I got some email alerts that the temp was below 78. Sure enough the power was out again in the basement.

This time however, the main breaker in the subpanel (the entire basement is on its own sub panel) was tripped and the upstairs AC unit (air handler) fuses were tripped as well. (Which are on the main box).

The house sitter flipped the breakers back on, but I'm worried it's going to happen again tonight when no one is home.

Anyone know why this would have happened? I'm thinking there was suddenly a short in the upstairs unit that threw the subpanel main and the individual ones in the main box.

There were no storms today that I know of over there.

Anyone have any idea why this happened?

And to think that you never saw a reason to own a controller.. I am glad everything was able to be easily remedied without any losses. I travel a lot and up until this year was spending upwards of 30 days or more a year traveling. My tank has very few issues but my Apex has saved me from what could have been a major leak when I was in Europe a number of years back and there were a few other issues that it alerted me to over the years while I was traveling. Interestingly, that seems to be the only time I get an alarm notification. :headwallblue:


Hope your enjoying your trip! I'd much rather be fishing even if it meant using rancid squid and drinking Pabst! :beer:

 

[Sk8r]

78 is not that bad. Probably it will all be fine. Too cold means problems slow down. Too hot means they happen fast. If you have to choose, choose a cooldown.

 

[slief]

78 is not that bad. Probably it will all be fine. Too cold means problems slow down. Too hot means they happen fast. If you have to choose, choose a cooldown.

So true.. My tank hits as low as mid 75's in the winter and I've never had an issue. Granted it's a very slow change in temp. My tank never shits more than 1* in 24 hours on it's own regardless of ambient temp swings. I allow it to go as high as 82 in the summer at which time my evap cooling fans turn on to drop it 1/2*. I've never had an issue there either but I also have plenty of dissolved o2. Between the fan additions and the increased max temp change, I t's saved me a small fortune and my tank hasn't suffered in the least. In fact, in the summer when the tank is running it's warmest, I see the best growth.

 

[CStrickland]

Where can you find that at?

It's pretty common around Rhode Island where it's made, like how you can find schlitz in the Midwest. I mostly beach on cape cod and the islands. If you remember the movie Jaws, ganset is the beer that the surly boat guy drank, so I like to drink it on the beach and say "we're gonna need a bigger boat" lol. Something happened around here a couple years ago where PBR got trendy. All the hipsters started drinking it ironically and now it costs as much as Budweiser. so stupid.

You catch anything good?

 

[Bent]

So I'm back! Got back last night.

I'm happy to report no ill effects from the outage...except the fact that my upstairs AC went out and that's probably what tripped the breaker. Looking at it, it looks like a relay is bad. So I made a quick trip to lowes and picked up a couple of window ACs for the girls rooms until I can get the unit fixed this week.

Tank wise, it seems business as usual. Once I cleaned the glass so I could actually see, I found what looks like growth on my new test SPS. (Not sure of species). Everything looks great!

Thanks for all the support!