Some weird stuff going on lately.....Besides my ich outbreak (talked about it in another thread... everything seems to be healthy besides a couple spots of ich), I've had a a few random leaks and electrical issues. A few weeks ago I came home to several gallons of water on my basement floor, I cleaned it up but was unable to figure out where it came from (it came out of the sump somehow, but I couldnt find a leak).
About a week later I came home to my GFCI having tripped in the basement, so the return pump was off along with everything in the sump/frag tank/breeding rack. There was some water on the floor but most of it had already dried. I didn't receive an Apex alert which I thought was strange (I quickly figured out why, at some point while attempting to clean up my electrical I had plugged the power monitor plug into a powerstrip connected to my battery backup
). Luckly this time around I was able to check the Apex logs since it would have logged a power failure. Strangely, nothing had turned on for several hours before the GFCI had tripped. Also, it had tripped at 4:15 in the morning when I was home, but I didn't catch it until I got home from work 12 hours later
.
After the second time I decided I was going to try harder to find the leak. I drained the sump and disconnected the threaded fitting on the bulkhead added some plumbers tape and put it back.... haven't had a leak since.
So this morning after getting to work (35 minutes away from the house) I got an Apex power failure alert
. I checked the apex logs, nothing again. I gave my father in law a call and he went over to the house to check it out. No water on the floor... he couldn't figure out what happened. He reset the GFCI, and so far everything seems good.
This is frustrating.....
The log for your viewing pleasure. (Line 12 is where the power kicked off)