Yet another Doh! moment for me.
Awhile back I used a piece of nylon string to pull back the wire for the Cobalt 1200 used on the reactor. I cleaned that pump about a week ago, and untied the string and just left it dangling. The pump went back into the sump and I totally forgot about the string.
Today I wake up and go into the fish room and say to myself, "Wow, it smells like ocean in here today." I also don't hear the trickle of water I usually hear as well. I quickly discover the MAG return pump isn't running and find that that string was sucked into the MAG. DOH!
Disaster isn't over yet, because I pull out the MAG and go to unscrew the cover. Two of the screws literally fall off as I touch the screwdriver to them.
I have a spare MAG somewhere, but wanting to get this back up and running ASAP, I pull out the string, give the pump a quick cleaning, reassemble, and put it back into the sump with only four of the six screws. Amazingly it still worked.
The DT temperature had dropped down to 72F, and once the sump cleared, I could see the ATO hadn't run in some time. I'm guessing this happened early evening, yesterday. Lights are still out, and fish still sleeping/hiding, so I can't tell if there was any impact to the tank.
I'm off searching for that spare MAG. Does anyone know if some place just sells the screws? They are not a standard screw I'd find at HD. (And I really can't complain....This MAG ran a Bowfront prior to this tank being set up in 2008....running non-stop.)
Awhile back I used a piece of nylon string to pull back the wire for the Cobalt 1200 used on the reactor. I cleaned that pump about a week ago, and untied the string and just left it dangling. The pump went back into the sump and I totally forgot about the string.
Today I wake up and go into the fish room and say to myself, "Wow, it smells like ocean in here today." I also don't hear the trickle of water I usually hear as well. I quickly discover the MAG return pump isn't running and find that that string was sucked into the MAG. DOH!
Disaster isn't over yet, because I pull out the MAG and go to unscrew the cover. Two of the screws literally fall off as I touch the screwdriver to them.
I have a spare MAG somewhere, but wanting to get this back up and running ASAP, I pull out the string, give the pump a quick cleaning, reassemble, and put it back into the sump with only four of the six screws. Amazingly it still worked.
The DT temperature had dropped down to 72F, and once the sump cleared, I could see the ATO hadn't run in some time. I'm guessing this happened early evening, yesterday. Lights are still out, and fish still sleeping/hiding, so I can't tell if there was any impact to the tank.
I'm off searching for that spare MAG. Does anyone know if some place just sells the screws? They are not a standard screw I'd find at HD. (And I really can't complain....This MAG ran a Bowfront prior to this tank being set up in 2008....running non-stop.)
Longnose Yellow Butterfly that I've had since 2008 didn't make it. Darn. Lost a good friend today.
