Equipment failure while out of town

[genesis]

So went up to Helen,GA for an Army sponsored marriage retreat for 3 days. I've been out of town before so prepped everything as usual- IP Camera, auto feeder, RKE controlling everything etc. well the feeder failed and dumped all the pellet food into the tank. Couldn't tell on the ip camera, just thought it was the normal growth on the glass until I got home and saw what looked like 2 weeks of uncleaned glass in the matter of days. The fish and clean up crew ate up all the food but I suspect this drove my phosphates up pretty high. Going to be doing a w/c tomorrow and get her back to normal

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[myreefclub0070]

stuff like this never happens when your home.

 

[ricky5415]

Somehow it looks very familiar with my 93 cube

 

[ricky5415]

However, mine is a 10 days trip

 

[elithelion]

Man that sucks! Could have been a lot worse, though. I'm sure the fish appreciated

 

[genesis]

MYREEFCLUB0070;1062564 wrote: stuff like this never happens when your home.

So true lol!

 

[camellia]

Glad everything will be ok!
How did that come apart? Did it break or is it a seam for cleaning? Maybe call the manufacture if this wasn't user error and let them know about the equipment issue, could save others...

 

[russ-iv]

always happens when we leave

 

[genesis]

Ricky5415;1062565 wrote: Somehow it looks very familiar with my 93 cube

Yea it was pretty accelerated

 

[genesis]

ElitheLion;1062570 wrote: Man that sucks! Could have been a lot worse, though. I'm sure the fish appreciated

I'm sure they were loving the all you can eat Buffett lol

 

[genesis]

Camellia;1062595 wrote: Glad everything will be ok!
How did that come apart? Did it break or is it a seam for cleaning? Maybe call the manufacture if this wasn't user error and let them know about the equipment issue, could save others...

Well it was partly my fault. When refilling it last time I broke one of the plastic lock in pieces. Guess that was enough to break away the entire thing after so many rotations

 

[genesis]

Russ-IV;1062634 wrote: always happens when we leave

So true lol

 

[thanhreef]

LOL. It'd run out of food so the fishes jumped up and smack down

 

[genesis]

thanhreef;1062670 wrote: LOL. It'd run out of food so the fishes jumped up and smack down

:wow2: why didn't I think of that, going to have to keep an eye on these fellas

 

[jennm]

Murphy's Law of Reefkeeping #2. Equipment only ever fails when no one is home.

Jenn