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Kinda long post but had to share ....
So, I am treating my 265G tank with heat as I have been having issues with my discus after I started feeding frozen blackworms. I started raising the tank temp Tuesday. Temp was going up and it was around 92 on Wednesday and it was around 95 yesterday. This morning I checked the temp and it went back down to around 90 (may be it was too cold over night?). So, I put another heater in the tank to crank the heat back up.
I am about to take the kids to the bus stop. My daughter goes "dad, I see a dead cat fish." So, I look and one of the orange laser corys is dead. I am thinking oh ... no biggie. And then my daughter goes, "there are more." So, I started to look and there are whole bunch of dead orange laser corys. So, I look around and I still have a lot of live ones. Time to abandon the whole tank heat treatment. So, I lower the temp on the heaters, pulled two extra ones I put it. I am fishing the dead cories and there are about 8 dead ones and two more about to die. I am done fishing the dead fish. It took a while because my tank is 30" tall. It's getting close to the bus time, but I can still make it.
Then I smell something burning. I put the heaters I pulled out from the tank on a towel, but I forgot to unplug it. The towel is about to catch on fire. So, I frantically unplug the towel and then there is big pop and a spark. Whole tank is out of power.
I look and the heater melted a power cord of one my filters. So, I try to rest the power strip, but no luck. I run to the basement and try to rest the circuit breaker. Only, I don't know which one I tripped, so I reset everyone of them. Bye bye school bus. I came up still no power. I re-set the power strip and power is back up. Thank god. Kids are not late for school although they missed the bus. I can still make to my nine o'clock meeting at work. I am driving my kids to school and son my goes what about our other tanks? Oh shoot. My AC HOB filters have habit of not re-starting. So, I am starting to get concerned.
I drop the kids off at school and come back home. Two AC 110s on my 90G didn't start (but at least it had a Fluval 405). AC 20 in my daughter's tank didnt' start. So, I restarted all the filters and jumped back in the car. Now, I can't find my keys. I am looking for my keys. I gave up and got the spare keys (at least that part was painless). Now, I am driving like a mad man trying to make my meeting. I made the meeting, but the meeting started early and when I got there exactly at 9:00, the part I needed to be present for the meeting is over. :angry3: I need to go home and have a beer. But things could have been a lot worse this morning.
So, I am treating my 265G tank with heat as I have been having issues with my discus after I started feeding frozen blackworms. I started raising the tank temp Tuesday. Temp was going up and it was around 92 on Wednesday and it was around 95 yesterday. This morning I checked the temp and it went back down to around 90 (may be it was too cold over night?). So, I put another heater in the tank to crank the heat back up.
I am about to take the kids to the bus stop. My daughter goes "dad, I see a dead cat fish." So, I look and one of the orange laser corys is dead. I am thinking oh ... no biggie. And then my daughter goes, "there are more." So, I started to look and there are whole bunch of dead orange laser corys. So, I look around and I still have a lot of live ones. Time to abandon the whole tank heat treatment. So, I lower the temp on the heaters, pulled two extra ones I put it. I am fishing the dead cories and there are about 8 dead ones and two more about to die. I am done fishing the dead fish. It took a while because my tank is 30" tall. It's getting close to the bus time, but I can still make it.
Then I smell something burning. I put the heaters I pulled out from the tank on a towel, but I forgot to unplug it. The towel is about to catch on fire. So, I frantically unplug the towel and then there is big pop and a spark. Whole tank is out of power.
I look and the heater melted a power cord of one my filters. So, I try to rest the power strip, but no luck. I run to the basement and try to rest the circuit breaker. Only, I don't know which one I tripped, so I reset everyone of them. Bye bye school bus. I came up still no power. I re-set the power strip and power is back up. Thank god. Kids are not late for school although they missed the bus. I can still make to my nine o'clock meeting at work. I am driving my kids to school and son my goes what about our other tanks? Oh shoot. My AC HOB filters have habit of not re-starting. So, I am starting to get concerned. I drop the kids off at school and come back home. Two AC 110s on my 90G didn't start (but at least it had a Fluval 405). AC 20 in my daughter's tank didnt' start. So, I restarted all the filters and jumped back in the car. Now, I can't find my keys. I am looking for my keys. I gave up and got the spare keys (at least that part was painless). Now, I am driving like a mad man trying to make my meeting. I made the meeting, but the meeting started early and when I got there exactly at 9:00, the part I needed to be present for the meeting is over. :angry3: I need to go home and have a beer. But things could have been a lot worse this morning.
