:sad:I woke up to a house in the mid to low 40's this morning. Last night someone messed with the thermostat on the house, no it was not me. They accedently turned it off all the way. My dog sleeps with me so I keep warm and have a Thick blanket, I woke up about 6 am and relized the house was Freezing, so I checked the heat as saw it! I turned it back on, I have an Extra heater in the tank incase one fails, well I woke up the tank was in the upper 60's on the bottom and 70 on the top. I turned the lights on to see the damage. and :sad:... The coral started to open when the lights came on, all looked fine the clam opened, clowns looked fine (at least the ate when I fed them, the dotty back came out and hide agian, seems to have lost some color but had to go to work so could not tell if it was sick from the drop.) every thing seems to be fine except my tiny little tang, froze at the bottom. So I hope when I get home al lthe fish are better and swimming. I am hoping the extra heater helped the tank keep up the heat and glad it did not drop fast like the house did.
Frozen Fish :-(
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Best of luck with eveything surviving.... if it helps any, heat is worse than cold.
Your post makes me wonder what size tank you have and the wattage the heater. If the heater of proper size the tank should have maintained a stable temperature. I keep 20 gallons change water in my garage and a 150w heater keeps the water at 79 degrees, even with the cold temperature this morning.
Also, you mentioned two temperatures in you tank (top and bottom). What are you using for flow? Powerheads should have kept the temps equal through out the tank.
Let us know how everyone is doing when you get home.
Your post makes me wonder what size tank you have and the wattage the heater. If the heater of proper size the tank should have maintained a stable temperature. I keep 20 gallons change water in my garage and a 150w heater keeps the water at 79 degrees, even with the cold temperature this morning.
Also, you mentioned two temperatures in you tank (top and bottom). What are you using for flow? Powerheads should have kept the temps equal through out the tank.
Let us know how everyone is doing when you get home.
Its 50 gallons, Tall. I didn't check the right power head but the left one was working when I left. Most of corals stay near the top. and fish seem to like the middle. I have 1 heater and it does very well, and I put a small one in near the top this weekend incase it larger one faild or something. Guess it could't keep up. when I saw bottom I mean sand bed. I have a thermomiter at the very bottom to make sure flow is okay, and it was always the same as the top. I wonder if then the larger heater burned out? I don't think it could have seeing its light sayed on. My friend stated the temp was 73 this morning on the top. and 73 on the bottom. But not when I checked @ 5:30- 6am.
Sounds like things are stabilizing. Sorry about the tang... hopefully everything else is ok.
I am hoping, I am worried about the powerhead on the right now. I unpluuged everything when I did the water change and rearraged the wires ( for organazation). I hoping I did not forget to plug in the right side. Can't wait to get home to see if they are okay and if its plugged in.
Sounds good.... too bad about the tang.
Check out the Aquacontroller Jr. Or Reef Keeper lite. Having a controller is the best purchase I've made for my tank.
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Wouldn't one of these also protect against heaters that get stuck on? I assume with a good controller, you could crank up your heater all the way and have the controller in charge of the temp. Or is that just a recipe for disaster?
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I wouldn't crank it up all the way, but a degree or two above where you set the tank temp at. There are also people who use heating elements and use a controller for that. There is no thermostat in the heating element to fail, turn it on (plug it in) and it heats, turn it off and it turns off.
