Time will tell now. Temp trouble

[stlouisguy]

Came home and found the tank at 88 degrees. Air conditioner was off for fish room due to power surge. So far three small colonies gone, and three other blues are RTNing on the tips. I guess time will tell.

I guess next purchase will be a chiller. Dang thats going to be expensive!!!

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just had to vent. Not a happy day at all

 

[sirreal63]

Keep a fan on the tank Clark...it works wonders. My chiller is set to come on at 83 but the tank rarely gets that hot as the pedestal fan keeps it cool. RO/DI is cheap compared to colonies of sps.

 

[latazyo]

good luck!

how did you get a surge? water, lightening?

 

[capncapo]

Gotta wonder if a power surge would not do the same thing to a chiller.

 

[Reggae Fish]

Is it on a controller? To kick on fans, to kick off lights, etc...?

Sorry for your losses. Let me know if you need any help.

 

[stlouisguy]

Everything is on timers, not controllers. Lights must have burned all day with no air movement in the room or cooling. Felt like a sauna when I went it. Temp down to 83.5 just waiting it out.



Maybe a chiller would have kicked the circuit also, never had it trip before in 8 months. Just bad luck I guess

 

[Arsenal11]

Clark, Sorry to hear about the loss, thats why i switched 2 t-5's, before (with mh's) my dedicated a/c ran 24/7 now its unplugged & my tank stays at 78.8

 

[capncapo]

Did it harm the A/C Clark?

 

[stlouisguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10354533#post10354533 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by capncapo
Did it harm the A/C Clark?

Doesnt appear so. Unit is working well again after I reset it. Tank temp is down to 80. Takes a while to cool 700 gallons of water

 

[trottman]

i dont understand. my tank teeters around 86-87 all day and everything is fine.

why would 88 make an sps rtn?? 88 isnt really that high. the ocean around the equaitor is around 86

 

[sirreal63]

Matt...if the tank does not go through a daily temp swing from low to high then it can be brutal on them. This is why I let my tank go from 78 to 82 or 83 daily...the sps get used to a variation of temps so they don't get stressed when the temp rises. I am against having a fixed temp for my tank. I keep the chiller set to come on at 83 though it rarely does come on.

You always hear people say you have to have a stable tank but some take it to extremes. Keep your water chemistry stable but like a real reef let the light and temp swing a little. If a coral never goes through a temp variation and then suddenly does it can be fatal. If is sees a temp fluctuation daily it will be able to handle it better.

 

[stlouisguy]

My tank in the winter went from 78 to around 81 this summer is has been 80 to 82 constant. No chiller, just that what it has been. I found the tank at night so it could have been up around 90 or so, I just saw the temp at 88.3

I will try and take some pics of the damage. Hoping the colonies make it some

 

[JxMetal]

i dont know a ton about sps, but if they're rtn'ing, shouldn't you frag them, to save em?

good luck

 

[Reggae Fish]

Would a controller have possibly stopped this problem? Or would the controller been messed up by this? I have an AC and from my understanding, it should kick back on. If not, that would worry me.

You could probably run your vitals on a DC8

Sucks for your loss but luckily you didn't have it wipe out your whole tank

 

[stlouisguy]

Here is my favorite blue and birdnest

Full tanks shots sorry no detail sucky camera

Here it is last December

 

[latazyo]

nice zoo rocks and most excellent monti cap

 

[JxMetal]

very nice clark. I remember seeing it back around christmas and it was awesome then and it's still amazing looking.

 

[stlouisguy]

As you can see with the blue and birdnest some death has occured, just hoping not to lose the whole colonie

 

[chadfarmer]

that sucks

maybe look into a controller for your lights

i have mine set that if it gets to hot it turns off my lights and can turn them back on when it get to the required temp to turn them back on

maybe a fan on a temp controller

i would be worried in a few days to a month hard to say if they were wild colonys or not

 

[chadscamaro]

Clark , I have had mixed luck with fragging rtning sps. Sometimes it saves the good part and other times the tissue continues to rtn even when you break it far from the rtn part,but might be worth a shot atleast to save some small frags just incase. Especially if they continue to decline.