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02-01-2008, 10:51 AM
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Ski Bum
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Indiana
Posts: 945
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Close call...
I happened to look at my tank's temp this morning and it was at 83! I checked the temp controller and it was set at 204 degrees!!! 
I reset it and it seems to work fine now--I wonder if the sudden power flash the other nite messed it up. I'm gonna have to keep an eye on it now. I'm glad I have the heat go down to 64 at night--otherwise I'm sure it would have been higher.
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02-01-2008, 11:56 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Bristol, IN
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Coral soup anyone?!!
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Todd  29 gal. mixed reef, 150w Phoenix 14k HQI, 20 long sump/fuge.
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02-01-2008, 12:26 PM
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Keeper of the Reef
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Northern Indiana
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WOW!!! Good thing you caught it!
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They call me Chris  I'm obsessed with fuzzy sticks 
75g SPS/LPS Reef :: 2x 250w 12K Reef Lux :: Octopus NW-200 Skimmer ::
MY 125G BUILD THREAD
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02-01-2008, 12:49 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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Wow! good save.
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02-01-2008, 01:06 PM
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Shark bait
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Elkhart, IN
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Dave, Good save!
Do you have separate thermo stats on the heaters themselves? If so, all you need to do is set it one degree higher than the temperature setting of the controller - so even if the controller tells the heaters to turn on, the heaters will see that it's warm enough and not turn on...
I've heard of the temperature probes going bad and reading a false high temp, thus not making heaters turn on when the tank is actually cool and need to have them on (an issue with some probes on the AC Jr. - that you can find out more info on on the RC boards).
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02-01-2008, 02:36 PM
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Ski Bum
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Indiana
Posts: 945
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Yeah--I'll do that. I did have the heater thermostat up all the way with the controller in total control of it.
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02-01-2008, 03:09 PM
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Student of the Reef
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Granger, IN
Posts: 552
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Good thing you pay close attention to your tanks. Could have been catastrophic.
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02-03-2008, 03:24 PM
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Hail Purdue! Boiler up!
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Elkhart, IN
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According to Gordon at MWC, corals can actually take really fast temperature fluctuations with few side effects. It's the fish that have problems adjusting so quickly
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Fish are not our whole lives, but make our life whole.
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02-03-2008, 03:34 PM
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SHARK
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: DFW, Texas
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wow glad you caught hat
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02-03-2008, 04:12 PM
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Ski Bum
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Indiana
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LedZeppelinfan101
According to Gordon at MWC, corals can actually take really fast temperature fluctuations with few side effects. It's the fish that have problems adjusting so quickly
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I don't know where he came up with that...I'm not buying it. One of my best acro is getting some die off from it and my pagoda still hasn't reopened.
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02-03-2008, 04:15 PM
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Shark bait
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Elkhart, IN
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Quote:
Originally Posted by grallster
I don't know where he came up with that...I'm not buying it. One of my best acro is getting some die off from it and my pagoda still hasn't reopened.
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i agree... though I do just toss newly aquired coral in instead of drip acclimating like I do with fish... I still take the time to float the bags to temperature acclimate...
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02-04-2008, 08:33 AM
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Hail Purdue! Boiler up!
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Elkhart, IN
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Yeah i thought it was a little sketchy when he told me that, but that's what he said. He told me in the summer time in their old warehouse, tank temperatures could fluctuate more than 10 degrees in a day and they wouldn't lose anything.
As to what bklynmet said, we do the same thing here at the store where I work in Lafayette. I was surprised that we drip the fish and not the corals, but we seem to get no ill effects from just putting them straight in. Maybe it's not ideal, but still works?
Just something to think about
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Fish are not our whole lives, but make our life whole.
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02-04-2008, 10:58 AM
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Ski Bum
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Indiana
Posts: 945
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Maybe that's the reason they have very few SPS for sale now.
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02-04-2008, 11:26 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Northern Indiana
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Quote:
Originally Posted by grallster
Maybe that's the reason they have very few SPS for sale now.
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QFE
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