markwill
10-09-2005, 02:20 PM
I've pretty much decided to go for a whole house generator, not just for the benefit of my fish bu that's what put me over the edge in deciding this. Hopefully that will be up and running in a few weeks. However, I coincidentally just had a breaker go on me which alerted me to another potential problem.
It took me a few mins to locate which breaker had flipped. On flipping it back I noticed that the AquaClear on my smaller tank was chugging away but not pulling/feeding water. The main chamber had a small amount of water at the bottom so I don't think any damage was done but the significant problem here is that it needed a manual restart. Now THAT'S a problem...
If I am going to pay a whole bunch of money for a generator that had an automatic transfder switch (after a 30 second - 1 minute delay, configurable) it would be a REAL bummer to find that, if I am away for a week or two, my filter doesn't recover correctly and I still get back to an unfiltered tank (and potentially dead fish).
I've been back and forth on this. I REALLY want to avoid the sponge/air pump approach (I think they look pretty ugly and this is for a show tank). But if my AquaClear needs a manual restart that kinda defeats the whole purpose. In the past I have temporary replugged an AquaClear and had it restart just fine.
Thoughts?
Mark
It took me a few mins to locate which breaker had flipped. On flipping it back I noticed that the AquaClear on my smaller tank was chugging away but not pulling/feeding water. The main chamber had a small amount of water at the bottom so I don't think any damage was done but the significant problem here is that it needed a manual restart. Now THAT'S a problem...
If I am going to pay a whole bunch of money for a generator that had an automatic transfder switch (after a 30 second - 1 minute delay, configurable) it would be a REAL bummer to find that, if I am away for a week or two, my filter doesn't recover correctly and I still get back to an unfiltered tank (and potentially dead fish).
I've been back and forth on this. I REALLY want to avoid the sponge/air pump approach (I think they look pretty ugly and this is for a show tank). But if my AquaClear needs a manual restart that kinda defeats the whole purpose. In the past I have temporary replugged an AquaClear and had it restart just fine.
Thoughts?
Mark