hatessushi
Active Member
I guess I should have listened closer to others when they spoke of leaving their fish tank with their mother-in-law when goin on vacation.
In my case, my wife and I were just going out for the evening last night and I needed my 19 year old son to simply unplug the main lighting, Normally I wouldn't need someone to do it but I had to ship out my computerized aquarium controller for an upgrade last week and it's not back yet. Well my son not only did what I asked him he also plugged in the heater. The heater is also controlled by the computer so I had it unplugged. When using the heater with this controller you have to set the heater at maximum so that's where it was. Needless to say I never checked anything when I got home last night since the night lighting was on I figured everything was ok. I got up this morning and noticed my fish moving around faster then normal like in a stress pattern. I began checking this and of course the first thing was the temp and I just about hit the roof. the water was 90. After finding the heater connected I turned it off and turned on the AC and put some ice in some sealed plastic bags. It looks like the temp is coming down.
So there is the lesson,
"You have to check things for yourself". If my computer controller was up and running it would have paged me so I would know what was happening. I just hope everything lives and there is no brain damage of anything else.
In my case, my wife and I were just going out for the evening last night and I needed my 19 year old son to simply unplug the main lighting, Normally I wouldn't need someone to do it but I had to ship out my computerized aquarium controller for an upgrade last week and it's not back yet. Well my son not only did what I asked him he also plugged in the heater. The heater is also controlled by the computer so I had it unplugged. When using the heater with this controller you have to set the heater at maximum so that's where it was. Needless to say I never checked anything when I got home last night since the night lighting was on I figured everything was ok. I got up this morning and noticed my fish moving around faster then normal like in a stress pattern. I began checking this and of course the first thing was the temp and I just about hit the roof. the water was 90. After finding the heater connected I turned it off and turned on the AC and put some ice in some sealed plastic bags. It looks like the temp is coming down.
So there is the lesson,
