You hear all the time, "I can tell whats going on with my tank by looking at it." That may not be true, case in point.
My 30g for the last week has been running between 64F and 67F degrees. When I did a water change last week I tripped the fail safe on my heaters, and it did what the fail safe was supposed to do and shut the heaters off. Unfortunately, I made a couple mistakes, When I set up the monitoring via Apex for some reason I did not set the temp alarm up on that tank. Also when I took my picture for the Mariner of the month, I installed the cabinet doors on that tank so I could not see the heater controller flashing "Help Me Help Me" like the last scene of the 1958 version of the "Fly".
My tank looked normal except a couple of green hammers looked slightly shriveled. Not all my hammers just a couple. Everything else was looked normal, Zoas were out, mushies were full, fish constantly begging for food. But the those certain hammers, which are normally full were not. I knew that this salt mix had a bit higher alk than usual so I tested the DKH, 10.5. That was a bit high for this tank, so I cut the AFR and decided I would lower the alk (start) this up coming weekend during maintenance. It wasn't until today I found out it wasn’t the DKH at all, it was the temp.
So a couple of morals here. One, just cause your tank looks ok, it may not be. Don't ever assume anything. Two, automation and failsafes can be a blessing and a curse.
Life is resilient, my tank dropped over 10 degrees for a week and nothing cared, mostly.
My 30g for the last week has been running between 64F and 67F degrees. When I did a water change last week I tripped the fail safe on my heaters, and it did what the fail safe was supposed to do and shut the heaters off. Unfortunately, I made a couple mistakes, When I set up the monitoring via Apex for some reason I did not set the temp alarm up on that tank. Also when I took my picture for the Mariner of the month, I installed the cabinet doors on that tank so I could not see the heater controller flashing "Help Me Help Me" like the last scene of the 1958 version of the "Fly".
My tank looked normal except a couple of green hammers looked slightly shriveled. Not all my hammers just a couple. Everything else was looked normal, Zoas were out, mushies were full, fish constantly begging for food. But the those certain hammers, which are normally full were not. I knew that this salt mix had a bit higher alk than usual so I tested the DKH, 10.5. That was a bit high for this tank, so I cut the AFR and decided I would lower the alk (start) this up coming weekend during maintenance. It wasn't until today I found out it wasn’t the DKH at all, it was the temp.
So a couple of morals here. One, just cause your tank looks ok, it may not be. Don't ever assume anything. Two, automation and failsafes can be a blessing and a curse.
Life is resilient, my tank dropped over 10 degrees for a week and nothing cared, mostly.
