Power Outage!!!

[timrandlerv10]

for some reason we lost power over the weekend, and when it came back on, all my GFCIs were tripped.

I reset them when I got to work (a few minutes ago...no idea how long they were off) but a few cursory measurements scared me:

salinity 1.031 (no top off since Thursday?)
temp 68
no water movement whatsoever
anemone shriveled up the size of a golfball, with at least one clown inside

all corals retracted


the shrimp and clams were out and moving normally (!)

i have since been adding RO/DI every few minutes to reduce salinity:
how fast can i go?

MH and heater set on 78 are both on.
should I regulate temp increase?

I am missing a clown...cant find him anywhere


please send suggestions!!!

tim

 

[AnimaliA]

The temp increase should be slow...same with the salinity change. Over the course of 2-4 hours should be safe. The 68deg temp and hyper salinity arn't going to be too bad for the fish, but the inverts and corals will be suffering.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

You need to figure out why your GFCI tripped out. A normal power failure should not do that. You might have had a ground fault. Some water got splashed into your outlet or power strip? Maybe an appliance that was plugged into the GFCI had a short. Some people reported that inexpensive GFCI tended to trip with a strong power surge. Sounds faulty to me.

Tomoko