Who forgets to turn on equipment after a water change?

[AydenLincoln]

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.

 

[danielm5]

You aren't alone, it has happened to me too! I left the heater unplugged last time.

 

[homer1475]

This is the exact reason I bought an apex system.

I was turning off my return pump during feeding, one day forgot to turn it back on. No filtration, no heat, no oxygenation.

Scrared the bejesus out of me. Now I just use a feed mode, and everything turns back on after 10 minutes automatically.

 

[Seansea]

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

 

[KStatefan]

I think everyone has.

A good tool to use to help with this is making a check list to go over for tasks like this.

 

[exnisstech]

Sometimes I walk in the house and have to go back outside to ask my Gal what I went in to get. So yep been there done that. It's usually skimmer or ato.

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

Guilty.

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

Sometimes I walk in the house and have to go back outside to ask my Gal what I went in to get. So yep been there done that. It's usually skimmer or ato.

Same issue w the skimmer. Bad tho cause I only have a heater return pump and skimmer in the sump, squirrel!

 

[Waters]

Fortunately it has never happened to me......the first thing I do after maintenance is scan all of my Apex sliders to make sure everything is on auto lol. Has just become habit over the years.

 

[mfinn]

Over a nearly 40 year span in the hobby, I've done it many times. Don't remember anything really bad happening. Tank dropping a few degrees was about it.

 

[workhz]

I just set a timer now on my phone to go off. Way too hard not to get distracted by other things and completely forget.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

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've almost forgotten to turn my rodi off multiple times

 

[fodsod]

I turn off my ATO when I shut off the return pump when feeding corals to keep the alarm from going off the whole time. I have at times, forgotten to turn the ATO back on once I turn the rest back on.

It hasn't happened in a while since I'm paranoid about it now.

 

[cwerner]

My water changes are automatic these days (insert smugness here), but it was a frequent problem when I was doing things manually. Not so much with the tank, but with the RODI unit. Now that I have a controller with optic level sensors and backup float switches things are so much more pain free.

 

[Dburr1014]

Thanks to AWC, I don't have to worry about that.
Before then, I set up my sump to do live water changes. Water came out of the overflow as I dumped in water to the sump. I would do 6, 12, or 18 gallon water changes in 5 minutes. Never had to turn anything off.

 

[Miami Reef]

Fortunately it has never happened to me......the first thing I do after maintenance is scan all of my Apex sliders to make sure everything is on auto lol. Has just become habit over the years.

Same lol

 

[AydenLincoln]

This is the exact reason I bought an apex system.

I was turning off my return pump during feeding, one day forgot to turn it back on. No filtration, no heat, no oxygenation.

Scrared the bejesus out of me. Now I just use a feed mode, and everything turns back on after 10 minutes automatically.

I have an Apex too and still forget sometimes lol!

 

[boacvh]

Me?.......no.......ehem.....never

 

[DonTavo27]

I fell back asleep, after my alarm woke me up to turn off a direct line going from the Rodi to My new set up, I woke up to about 30g of water going down the hallway into the kitchen…

 

[AydenLincoln]

I fell back asleep, after my alarm woke me up to turn off a direct line going from the Rodi to My new set up, I woke up to about 30g of water going down the hallway into the kitchen…

Been there done that. Except in my case I had someone at school turn the RODI back on and the float valve got flipped up and it ended up flooding the maintenance closet which happens to be the electrical room. Thank god I went to school that weekend and no damage was done but if I hadn’t that would’ve been a major fire hazard, insurance claim, and end of the school fish tank. The other times it’s been in the sink at home or briefly flooded my floor and not made a major mess.