near meltdown ( at least i hope just near)

[astrong]

That was my first thought too, Tim.

Put Poly Filter in there, it pulls out all sorts of horrible stuff including copper, which may have leached from a burnt out coil.
Definitely do the water change.

[TroyPham]

Tim, good guess on the rio.. haha. i thought i was a lucky one with mine but i guess i wasn't. i think everything is gonna make it ok. all looks well but one clam and the xenia's. all the sps and lps look fine now. just not as colorful. polyp extension looks ok on everthing but one coloney of blue staghorns. but i think it will pull through just fine.

thanks for the help guys and it was on a gfci. it wasn't shorting out completly it would run the slow down and start running and stop, then run,then slow down. kind of intermiten so it didn't dead short. i also have the pumps on a 1hr backup system. and that didn't trip.

yea **** thos rio pumps.