Weekend Disaster

[rocketeer]

Ouch... Sorry to hear that seems like an understatement.

Jack

[J_G]

Sorry Steve. I just seen this topic. 2 days before I bought my chiller my water was getting up to the same temp. I went down to 7-eleven and bought 5 bags of ice and put half a bag every 10 hours or so in the sump. my temp dropped to 76 degrees in 60 minutes and stayed there till my chiller arrived 2 days later. A question i have is did you not know the temp was actually rising. very easy problem to solve is why im wondering.

-John

[BIGBIRD123]

John,
I tried the ice thing but with over 400g of water volume and the garage temp over 90 (sump in the garage made about 135g of the water super-heated.)), it was causing more problems with a salinity swing, as it was going through ice by the 1/2 hr. Bleive me, I tried a lot of stuff as I was trying to get the chiller together.

S

[J_G]

John,
I tried the ice thing but with over 400g of water volume and the garage temp over 90 (sump in the garage made about 135g of the water super-heated.)), it was causing more problems with a salinity swing, as it was going through ice by the 1/2 hr. Bleive me, I tried a lot of stuff as I was trying to get the chiller together.

S

you didnt dump the ice in the sump did you? put the ice in 1 gallon bags and zip em shut to prevent salinity swings. the other thing i do in an emergency is freeze bottled water and drop those in the sump. If the sump in the garage is too hot then turn it off and float bags in the show tank with power heads on full blast. High temp problems are just too easy a problem to deal with especially when there is no power outage (now a power outage and high temp is a problem all its own!!!). call one of us in the future and we could have helped.

[jennabee]

Sorry to hear about your disaster, When our SPS gets big enough to frag, We will make sure to give you some frags. We dont want to see you give up on those SPS your tank looked GREAT!!!We'll see you soon

[BSJF]

Sorry for your loss.

Note to self - When I move to SA I need to have frozen jugs of stuff! So, I guess now would be a good time for me to buy a chiller too. So much to plan for.

BTW, since it was a mechanical malfunction of your A/C that caused this, you might want to talk with your insurance company. Some of them cover a loss like this.

[brewercm]

So sorry to hear about this. Haven't had chance to be on too much as of late. I was kind of second guessing myself about buying another chiller but after hearing this and my sump being in the garage also glad I did. About half of my water volume sits out there so I'm sure it would heat up really fast.

[Gseclipse02]

Sorry for your loss.

Note to self - When I move to SA I need to have frozen jugs of stuff! So, I guess now would be a good time for me to buy a chiller too. So much to plan for.

BTW, since it was a mechanical malfunction of your A/C that caused this, you might want to talk with your insurance company. Some of them cover a loss like this.

some say that having fans is enough here in tx but its better safe then sorry with a chiller .... i don't have mine kick on until 83 but my tank normally runs 79-81ish so far but we have yet to have a hot day (100+)

[Bigun]

Sorry to hear of your lose Steve. That really sucks

[manhorsedog]

Steve,

There's nothing magic about t5s. They still put out a TREMENDOUS amount of heat. Just like MH, almost all of the electricty they use is turned to heat. I have them on my nano and on my 55 - and they both are way under the threshold for growing SPS and they still need fans.

i am going to need you to explain this because i dont understand.

My t-5 fixture puts out NO heat, i mean like NONE. You can touch the top of the fixture after running for 10 hours and its room temp . Not to mention my tank stay at 77-78 all year around with my house temp at 75.

What kind of t-5 did/do you have? i have noticed PC's to get hot and on my biocube they keep my temp at 80