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well.........I was wondering where to start..........but...what can I say.. :eek:

Might even get more hits with cracked trickle filters.... :rolleyes:

deb that's just frightening. and brings up the whole issue of water changes... 20% every two weeks, let's say, is 30 gallons. where am i going to put thirty gallons of water? for emptying the tank, i suppose i could attach a mag18 to a garden hose and pump it down the hall and out onto the patio. refilling is another story. how about a garbage can at the bottom of the stairs filled with the new water... drop the mag18 into the can, run the hose all the way up the stairs into the sump, and let 'er rip! think it would work? would be a job for two, that's for certain. i really should have thought harder about doing a first-floor sump, set up the same way jon has his done. my first floor is a workshop area so i could spill all i wanted without a care. :neutral:

Well lets see, a long long time a go (yesterday) I was starting to drive up Island to visit a friend when my cell rang and the kid said my tank was low on water and making funny noise.

So I turned the rig around and headed home to find my return pump had quit. It was no big deal; the sump held it all and the funny noise was one of my power heads splashing a bit. So I took the mag out and found it needed a good cleaning so as it was soaking I was playing with my truck and then it was announced that the carpet all around the tank was wet and we have a water fall out of the bottom tank. After a quick survey I found the problem, I use a power head to take water from my main tank and sent it up top to the refuge where it in turn spills back to the main tank. Well not quite, it spills into the overflow in the main tank (see where I am going). So even thought my overflows had stopped the water from the main tank from going to the bottom tanks, this power head was still pumping water to the bottom tanks. So I ended up doing a 5 gal water change, and re routing the return from the refuge.

This was about the time the tank tour was at Shane's so it was a good thing no one showed up here... mind you, you might have been able to learn a few new words :eek:

Steve

Knocks on wood and just doesn't say anything....

actually I've left water running a couple times filling my 10 gallon mixing tank but I catch it before I have a mess, BUT I'm glad I keep my aquariums in the basement on the concrete... just incase..

Yes, but imo I would use a mighty python, and you can't dump salt water onto a patio.......unless you want dead everything around it and salt stains to boot.... :wink:

The filling part sounds okay.....never had a flood of major consequence during a water change (once we figured out it either needs two people, or a timer for the 'alzeimeric'.....or the easily distracted.. :eek: )

hmm actually i could pump it straight out my bedroom window, just brush out there.

thinking through this process, i think i've actually got it figured out now!

Damn Steve, if I had known there was a flood tour available, I would have DEFINITELY hit that one.... :lol: Brad just had some vague memories....... :rolleyes: :mrgreen:

I find the easiest way to do water changes is to do 10 gallons weekly, a 10 gallon tank is dirt cheap and its sure alot easier than trying to do 20 or 30 gallons every two weeks or so....

bcorchid what size of tank are you working with? i'll have about 180 gallons of water in my system. i do plan to do smaller changes once everything is established (maybe in a year or so).

:rofl: Dam Deb! That's alot of hits for you and flooding! :eek: :lol: