So I should have read the signals but I had never had any problems with my titanium heater (DTH). It was always spot on where temps were concerned.
So the other day (June 26th I think) I dropped my digital thermometer (DT) in the water and really did not worry as my DTH had never failed in the 6 or so years that I have had it. I had an old thermometer (old glass suction-cup type) lying around and finally put it in the tank on July 3rd. This is were the red light in my pea brain should have gone off, but didn't (hence pea brain). The reading on the thermometer read 84 degrees, so me being me, just figured the old thermometer was well old and not working. So a few days go by and the reading still shows 85, so I try the lowering the setting on the DTH and the temp still reads high. So I go out and finally get a new DT and on the 7th and guess what? Yeah, the temp was at cough *84.5*. And you guessed it I still thought the DTH was still okay and the other two thermometers where faulty.
So just in case a lower the DTH a little right before Sarah and I leave for Silverthrone (Friday at 3pm) for a weekend get away. I also put a fan up to help keep the water cool in case the heater was at fault (another mistake) and top off the tank with as much water as possible. Option returning yesterday I walk into the living room and the pump is spitting up bubbles because my rear refug was close to empty(almost run dry).
So of course I go into panic mode(bout dang time), stick my hand in the tank and the water is cold, I look at the DT and it is reading 67.5 degrees. So I turn the heater up and the little red LED will not go on. Bam! Finally I realize at that very moment that the DTH must have been slowly Crapping out on me. Over the course of a few days it most have got hot enough to evaporate the water faster then it ever has, causing the heater which is on the back of the tank to not warm the water as there was no water to warm up, which of course would have made the tank water run at room temp but I decided to add the fan to the equation.
So thankfully I had an extra heater and I put it in the tank and have slowly been raising the temp to the proper reading. However it might be to late for some corals as I am sure there were a few drastic temp swings in that tank while I was gone. So far I have lost a birds of paradise birds nest, a red planet, an common Acro, probably a blue Milli, maybe my green kenya tree and I have a host of Zoas that have yet to open up as of this morning.
So the other day (June 26th I think) I dropped my digital thermometer (DT) in the water and really did not worry as my DTH had never failed in the 6 or so years that I have had it. I had an old thermometer (old glass suction-cup type) lying around and finally put it in the tank on July 3rd. This is were the red light in my pea brain should have gone off, but didn't (hence pea brain). The reading on the thermometer read 84 degrees, so me being me, just figured the old thermometer was well old and not working. So a few days go by and the reading still shows 85, so I try the lowering the setting on the DTH and the temp still reads high. So I go out and finally get a new DT and on the 7th and guess what? Yeah, the temp was at cough *84.5*. And you guessed it I still thought the DTH was still okay and the other two thermometers where faulty.
So just in case a lower the DTH a little right before Sarah and I leave for Silverthrone (Friday at 3pm) for a weekend get away. I also put a fan up to help keep the water cool in case the heater was at fault (another mistake) and top off the tank with as much water as possible. Option returning yesterday I walk into the living room and the pump is spitting up bubbles because my rear refug was close to empty(almost run dry).
So of course I go into panic mode(bout dang time), stick my hand in the tank and the water is cold, I look at the DT and it is reading 67.5 degrees. So I turn the heater up and the little red LED will not go on. Bam! Finally I realize at that very moment that the DTH must have been slowly Crapping out on me. Over the course of a few days it most have got hot enough to evaporate the water faster then it ever has, causing the heater which is on the back of the tank to not warm the water as there was no water to warm up, which of course would have made the tank water run at room temp but I decided to add the fan to the equation.
So thankfully I had an extra heater and I put it in the tank and have slowly been raising the temp to the proper reading. However it might be to late for some corals as I am sure there were a few drastic temp swings in that tank while I was gone. So far I have lost a birds of paradise birds nest, a red planet, an common Acro, probably a blue Milli, maybe my green kenya tree and I have a host of Zoas that have yet to open up as of this morning.
