Dave's next upgrade(man cave)

[lastlight]

Ok I give up. Dave when the glass arrives pm me and Il'l be there haha.

[riceboy]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Ok I give up. Dave when the glass arrives pm me and Il'l be there haha.

Lol sorry dude got caught up in another hobby lol. Ya Dave let me know if u need help dude.

[Gripenfelter]

BTW, if you see a red Lexus IS350 with Manitoba plates in Edmonton and Calgary between Aug 17-Aug 21...that's me.

[dave_C]

so a little update for you guys

will be stepping up the time line on this build to the start of sept

big lesson learnt last night, came home from my trip up to edmonton late sunday never check my tank. want to work, never check the tank got home last night power was off. turned everything back on, all fish are now died and all corals looks half died. the temp had dropped to 66 degrees so it must had to been out for more then 12 hours.


one of two thing will be installed into the new tank
1) come up with a way to install a backup to ran everything if the fuse pops again
2) come up with a way keep power to my damn controller so it can notify me when power goes out

or do both!!!!!

anyways after this little incident i have decide to have my other company go in, install a new sub panel to my fuse box for the fish room and beef the electrical wiring in the basement. i have three 15 amp circuits to the current tank, so the new tank i think i will have go with 8 15 amp circuits
circuit 1) lights/lights for quarantine tank 1
circuit 2) lights/ pump for quarantine tank 1
circuit 3) heaters/ lights for quarantine tank 2
circuit 4) heaters/ pump for quarantine tank 2
circuit 5) skimmer/return pump
circuit 6) power heads/ ato and mixing tanks
circuit 7) controller/ pumps for media reactors
circuit 8) exhaust fans/misc things
this way if any fuse blow the tanks still should be ok for a while i think

one last thing, since i have no clue as what cause the fuse to blow(worked five years with out problems) and it now has been running fine for the last 10 hours, not a single piece of the current equipment will see the day of light again once this tank shuts down. Ok now i am done with my little rant, damn this hobby sucks some times


oh since i am depress this morning i decide to set up 120 gallon tank at my office today to keep me occupied until the new tanks starts i will post some pics once i clean out what i stuff in here

thanks Dave

[riceboy]

**** that sucks dude. Hopefully everything turns around for you

[lastlight]

Sorry to hear that Dave that is a lot of loss in one go =( If there's anything I can do to help just let me know.

[dave_C]

thanks guys

but you know me, either one of two things will happen when i get home

a) i go home tonight and start the clean up
b) the sledgehammer comes out

i am feel ok right now, but have not actually seen what the tank looks like yet as it was very cloudy last night

Brett i will call you if i need help with the sledgehammer tonight

[fishytime]

Sorry to hear Dave .... You know I've been there and I really feel for ya

[dave_C]

Originally Posted by fishytime

Sorry to hear Dave .... You know I've been there and I really feel for ya

ya not sure how i feel yet but to keep me occupied i decide to work on a office tank that has been site around for a while now.

this is it, i used it to hold my skimmers and stuff now it will be a fish tank again lol



i think i will use the one as a high end cherry picked sps tank

[Delphinus]

Ouch..

It's funny (well .. funny/interesting not funny/ha-ha) how that always seems to go. The few times I had phantom trips where I did end up losing livestock where always the times that due to one thing or another, they ended up being longer because I didn't think to check for running status when coming home and having to step out again or I had to work late because some project manager was having a dicky fit about something or another or etc. etc. etc. My current setup is now load split amongst 4 circuits so if any one of them goes, there is still most of the others still running. Even still that's no magic bullet. A controller with battery backup is probably the safest option, even still I'm sure it's not 100% but the best we can do is hedge our bets I guess.