Who forgets to turn on equipment after a water change?

[soreefed]

Forgot to turn my ro/di off twice. I have the float switch so the flooding wasnt terrible but what a waste of money.

I have deep fear and trauma from this topic lol

 

[AydenLincoln]

I have deep fear and trauma from this topic lol

I set times for this reason. Although my buckets at home fit in the sink so it just goes down the drain. The school tank is a different story.

 

[soreefed]

I set times for this reason. Although my buckets at home fit in the sink so it just goes down the drain. The school tank is a different story.

Im a bozo and have overfilled my Rodi too many times to count.

 

[AydenLincoln]

Im a bozo and have overfilled my Rodi too many times to count.

Meant to say timers and me too but again it goes down the drain unless the tubing slips out which has happened before ugh!

 

[Duzzy]

So not the first time I have forgotten to turn on important equipment after a water change. I forgot to turn on my rerun pump last night my tank dropped 7 degrees. Everyone seems good. Not the first time. Who else has forgotten to turn on equipment or plug it back in? I can’t be the only one who occasionally forgets. Most of the time I remember but I guess when I turned all my other equipment back on I missed the return pump. I always remember the ocean has fluctuations and is unpredictable too and as much as I hate power outages in my experience anywhere from 6-10 hours without power or vital equipment is okay. I try not to push it and I am going to buy a portable generator since it scares me every time I lose power which is not often.

When I start I set a reminder in my phone for 2hrs to turn my equipment back on.

 

[jrill]

Never happens to me. My Hydros controller alerts me if something is off too long or turns it back on.

 

[AydenLincoln]

When I start I set a reminder in my phone for 2hrs to turn my equipment back on.

Typically I do too except when I don’t or I forget lol!

 

[AydenLincoln]

Never happens to me. My Hydros controller alerts me if something is off too long or turns it back on.

My apex does too but I typically do water changes at night and then go to bed so that’s part of the issue lol. Also it doesn’t happen often but it has happened.

 

[Duzzy]

Typically I do too except when I don’t or I forget lol!

As I was writing that I was thinking the exact same thing

 

[KaiPono]

Alexa voice routines with built in safety nets give me peace of mind. “Alexa, water change” turns off the ATO and return pumps, then starts a 20 min timer. If I forget to turn it all back on I know she’ll remember for me. Easy $20 automation!

 

[Callum121]

I've got a few cheap smart plugs plugged into the main equipment and a old ipad mini running smartlife to controll them so a cheap version to apex

 

[Callum121]

get something like these and plug them into the return pump heaters and any other equipment with these you can link to a app called smartlife or tuya whatever u prefer which also allows you to link with alexa to be able to turn them off or set up a command word with Alexa so it turns them all off

 

[Haggisman14]

I've occasionally forgotten to plug my heater back i!

 

[Callum121]

I've occasionally forgotten to plug my heater back i!

I use a inkbird for heater controller

 

[MDAquatics]

I just put my stuff in feed mode so I don't have to worry about it. Only thing I have to pay attention to is the ATO and I forget to turn that back on the noise reminds me, has only happened once thankfully

 

[Callum121]

I just put my stuff in feed mode so I don't have to worry about it. Only thing I have to pay attention to is the ATO and I forget to turn that back on the noise reminds me, has only happened once thankfully

I find feed mode is only 10 mins its not long enough for me to clean the glass and refill the tank that's why I stick with smartplugs

 

[MDAquatics]

I find feed mode is only 10 mins its not long enough for me to clean the glass and refill the tank that's why I stick with smartplugs

gotcha, I clean the glass almost daily so thats not an issue for me. And my water changes take a couple minutes at most.

 

[Callum121]

gotcha, I clean the glass almost daily so thats not an issue for me. And my water changes take a couple minutes at most.

Might just be me them I take around half hour to do mine on a weekend as work long shifts at work and finish around 9.30pm so don't get enough time

 

[SPS2020]

Apex, custom logic and automatic water changes help minimize risk for me. Forgetting to turn off the chiller and UV when stopping the return flow kept biting me, but the Apex now takes care of that aspect. Also, recently I made a backup of my Apex configuration and purchased a spare Apex, loaded the configuration file and have that on hand in case anything goes wrong. Spare return pump as well.

 

[Aquaddictorbj4]

That is why I choose Autoaqua AWC Duo lol...
It don't have to turn off return pump during water change
Thanks god for saving me from my bad brain