My new 600 gallon reef

[Goodwin9]

Learned once again from one of my mistakes, if it's not working...FIX IT. Don't procrastinate and expect it to fix itself. A small problem has now mushroomed into a much larger, and probably more expensive problem as a result of waiting...........

 

[Reeftanks6]

Man two beautiful tangs you do have. Wish i could get one of them for my tank. Maybe in the years to come.

 

[Goodwin9]

Water..water....Everywhere.....................80 gallons

 

[Reeftanks6]

Sorry to hear about that.

 

[Goodwin9]

Cougarman...can you tell me what fish is pictures in the red box? Is it a tang?

 

[kar93]

That looks like a baby Vlamingi to me, Chuck. But I could be wrong.

 

[jnarowe]

I don't think so.

So what happened Chuck???????

(BTW, Welcome to my World!) :lol:

 

[michika]

Ouch! I hope everything gets cleaned up quickly with no permanent damage. Floods suck, but 80g of flood, wow!

 

[melev]

I know you are still mopping, but we have to know what happened. :eek2: The fact that you know it is 80g means something leaked of about that size...

 

[jnarowe]

RO/DI or SW container? You Chuck, are the only guy I know of that has more electrical hazards combined with reef keeping than myself.

 

[Cougarman]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12844272#post12844272 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Goodwin9
Cougarman...can you tell me what fish is pictures in the red box? Is it a tang?

Its a juvenile Naso tonganus. I can post a closer pic if you want.

 

[pdfrogman]

looks like this too....
http://animal-world.com/encyclo/marine/tangs/hexacanthus.php

 

[Cougarman]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12847049#post12847049 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pdfrogman
looks like this too....
http://animal-world.com/encyclo/marine/tangs/hexacanthus.php

No, its not a hexacanthus.

 

[Cougarman]

Here's a few close ups of the tonganus

 

[Goodwin9]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12847009#post12847009 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Cougarman
Its a juvenile Naso tonganus. I can post a closer pic if you want.

I was curious cause the eyes seemed so big in the picture..... Baby blues????

 

[Goodwin9]

I can't remember how far back I posted the fact the long ago, the calcium reactor solenoid had stuck in the open position and melted much of the media in the reactor.

 

[Goodwin9]

I ordered and had received the new media to change out in the reactor, but it sat on the shelf and I kept finding reasons not to change it out....(very stupid on my part) Sometime between Thursday and last evening it caught up with me. The recirculation pump on the reactor finally gave out.

 

[Goodwin9]

My first thought was that something Willy and I did the other night didn't hold, or we knocked some fitting loose in the project. I checked all of the fittings and it didn't appear anything was leaking from them, or anything near them.

Then I noticed that the construction paper I had wrapped around the calcium reactor was soaked completely through.

I'm not quite sure yet where the leak occurred, but it appears that water feeding into the reactor had no way of going through the reactor and into the sump, rather it either leaked at a fitting or out the top of the reactor. The reactor was being fed off a line in the closed loop and as this water leaked out onto the floor, it drained the sump. (70 - 80 gallons) The chiller loop is fed from the sump and with no water, the temperature climbed to 82 degrees in the tank.

 

[Goodwin9]

I closed the feed to the calcium reactor and filled the sump. Turned on the pumps and the chiller loop fired right up. THANK GOODNESS! Unfortunately, the other pump which provided flow to the sand filters, GFO reactor, refugium, and one return to the tank DID NOT. Locked tighter than a drum.....

 

[Goodwin9]

So now I have two problems. First, the Blueline 20 pump recirculating the calcium reactor is locked up. I need to take it apart to see what damage has been done. The second problem is to remove and inspect the Bluline 70 pump at the end of the sump. It is screwed directly into the bulkhead in the sump. It looks like I will have to drain the sump to be able to remove the pump........