Fun with power outage (dead return pump)

[spit.fire]

Originally Posted by rishu_pepper

I got off work around 5pm, and a fellow reefer who happened to drive by my place told me that our area was out of power. Panicking, I asked my wife to check Apex on her phone while I drove, and sure enough, no power. I prayed that everything was fine, that no livestock was lost and no water damage.

Rushing home, we found that nothing was out of the ordinary, phew, so the waiting game began. I'd just kept stirring the tank and blowing it with the baster, and about an hour or so, the power came back on. "YES!" I thought to myself.

But to my chagrin, the return pump, a Jebao DCT12000, was not working. I tried unplugging and plugging it in the same/different outlets on the EB8 and normal power bar, but the controller would just blink its first 3 lights and the last, water was not being pumped.

I fired off an angry email to Fish Street where I had bought it a few months ago.

At the moment, I am running everything (both Gyres stir up water with surface aeration in the DT, so I guess it's not too concerning?). The skimmer is just running and overflowing in the sump to provide aeration.

Will it be safe for a few days until I find a solution (new pump locally, fix the Jebao, get a replacement, etc.) to run the tank as it is? Or should I rush off to buy a pump at JL or something?

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[GoFish]

And after you call Tyler take your return pump out and clean it . Or you can bang on it with something, the impeller shaft is could be a little gummed up

[rishu_pepper]

Originally Posted by WarDog

Just out of curiosity, did you try flicking the impeller with something while it was plugged in?

I tried it, no activity at all.

Originally Posted by Vancity

And after you call Tyler take your return pump out and clean it . Or you can bang on it with something, the impeller shaft is could be a little gummed up

I'll take it out for a bath tomorrow.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Swing by tomorrow and pick up one of my spare return pumps. You are welcome to use it until you can get yours up and running or replaced.

Anthony

[rsisvixen]

Ha, well at least you have power. My twilight zone area is only due to have power by the 19th if we're lucky. 18 hours and counting so far.