I'm an idiot

[bad santa]

The past six months I have been battling an algea problem. I tried different gfo's,lots of carbon,wet skim, weekly WC's, less feedings, everything I could think of.
I have a mp40 & a tunze 6045 which is plenty of flow for a 40gal tank.

I'm usually working 10-12 hr shifts 6-7 days a week and I have my 2 boys in baseball which leaves me to take care of my tank maintenance at nite. I was home yesterday afternoon and I noticed that my pumps in the tank weren't on. After checking to make sure that they were working properly I figured out that my controller was turning off the pumps when the tank reached 80 degrees
About 6 months ago I finally took my chiller off line and I connectd my pumps to that free outlet. Stupid me, I never changed the programming.
Hopefully now that I changed the programming that I can get rid of the fkn algea.

I just needed to get that off my chest.

 

[BeanMachine]

Nice we've all had those oh s*&^ moments... most just don't admit to them...

Like two weekends ago when I turned the water on to my frag tank for the first time... I'm standing there... then realize OMG my drain line was not even in the sump it was behind my tank with all my wires and such. Woops that could have been bad.

 

[wickedfish]

The past six months I have been battling an algea problem. I tried different gfo's,lots of carbon,wet skim, weekly WC's, less feedings, everything I could think of.
I have a mp40 & a tunze 6045 which is plenty of flow for a 40gal tank.

I'm usually working 10-12 hr shifts 6-7 days a week and I have my 2 boys in baseball which leaves me to take care of my tank maintenance at nite. I was home yesterday afternoon and I noticed that my pumps in the tank weren't on. After checking to make sure that they were working properly I figured out that my controller was turning off the pumps when the tank reached 80 degrees
About 6 months ago I finally took my chiller off line and I connectd my pumps to that free outlet. Stupid me, I never changed the programming.
Hopefully now that I changed the programming that I can get rid of the fkn algea.

I just needed to get that off my chest.

Oooooo we talkin bout stupid sh!!!! I do?!


Did something similar with the heater, luckily I'm a fat like Campge says in torn up English "looser" and check my history on the heaters every so often.

The week we had a heat wave months ago my heaters got the tank up to 86f AT NiGHT with AC. Everything was fine.

But live and learn. Get the aquanotes for your smart phone and get both the old and new one so you can see the history of your equipment off and ons.

Also left my heater on my mixing tank for two weeks, empty btw.

Left a mixing heater on a 350$ tunze also without water outside the mixing container, for a week, (still works good, try that with an mp40)
I've thrown my results from tests back into the display, (I get distracted easily)
Put in a carbon stuffed reactor without a top sponge! I wanted to hit my forehead on the granite counter a la Zidane!

 

[Surgical]

Runnig the gfo rx and forgetting to valve it down ---> gfo all up in my display...

 

[bad santa]

thanks guys, sometimes were in a hurry to fis this or adjust that on the fly and dont think things all the way through. Its hard to admit when you make a mistake especially if its been going on for 6 months.
Now its the battle to take care of the algea problem

 

[BeanMachine]

thanks guys, sometimes were in a hurry to fis this or adjust that on the fly and dont think things all the way through. Its hard to admit when you make a mistake especially if its been going on for 6 months.
Now its the battle to take care of the algea problem

Also another reason not to make changes to our tanks before vacations.... as you get rushed and forget a step and that can be disastrous.

 

[xthunderx]

Introduced ICH to my tank with corals additions after I meticulously quarantined every single fish that went into my 180g. That's like wearing a condom all your life, and then getting an STD from you wife.

 

[h0ndap0w3r]

Hahahahahahahaha ^^^^^^ that's comedy

 

[JDEllis]

Introduced ICH to my tank with corals additions after I meticulously quarantined every single fish that went into my 180g. That's like wearing a condom all your life, and then getting an STD from you wife.

Awesome!!!!

How about doing a water change. I pumped water from my rodi can without any salt to fill my tank back up from a water change. Too many things going on at once that day.

 

[james-lee]

introduced ich to my tank with corals additions after i meticulously quarantined every single fish that went into my 180g. That's like wearing a condom all your life, and then getting an std from you wife.

lmfao!

 

[jhuerth]

haha did the same thing with ich not too long ago. Used a baster to clean the junk at bottom of QT then went to just watch my DT happened to notice some junk and used baster to blow it off and bam ich the next day

 

[reefes pieces]

Man we all do stupid things. I was cleaning some wiring in the sump and moved my line from my osmolator ATO and the hose was hanging outside of the sump. Forgot to put it back in the sump and sure enough woke up 2am cuz my osmolator kept going off (tank was in bedroom at the time) and found myself cleaning up 5 gallons of RODI in the stand and all over the floor in the wee hours of the morning on a weekday.