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Old 04-15-2010, 09:02 PM
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well got the call yesterday that there is water on the floor so i rush home from work to find the sump pouring onto the floor shut tank off temp is at 60 throw in every heater i can find salt at 1.015 drain water do quick water changes dump in prime water very red so i called me friend Bob to help move me tank and all its contents to his tank as my corals were starting to rtn quickly and we needed to act so corals and fish all went to Bobs house and 200 lbs rock is in a 50 gallon cube so out comes all the water sand reeks so i cleaned it all out new sand and well tank is refilling with new ro water out of all of this my fish bowl design auto top off running from my ro unit had failed both float switches 100 gallons on the floor figured out how much to drop that much salinity well all i can say is how upset we were and how much it hurts to see the fish and corals suffer a year of growth gone in minutes but with the drastic acting the damage was limited out of 34 fish we lost a long nose hawkfish and a chromis. as for all my sps i will see how they react but went and picked up a tunze ato and max going to have a 5 gallon reserve i just thought i would share my experience alnd a big thank you to Bob (The Codfather) for all his help
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Old 04-15-2010, 09:05 PM
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Sorry to hear of all your troubles. Glad you were able to quickly control the problems with a minimum of loss. Hope your corals make it.
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Old 04-15-2010, 09:07 PM
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wow, that sucks. I hope everything else pulls through for you. Good Luck.
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Old 04-15-2010, 09:27 PM
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Wow, that sucks. We hope all the best for you. Good thing for good reefers! Always good to have one near.
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Old 04-15-2010, 09:39 PM
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oh geez, sorry to hear this! Hope everyone else makes it through.

Did you find out what caused the sump overflow? Or did I miss that in your post?
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Old 04-15-2010, 09:43 PM
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yeah what caused it was my auto top off had it directly from the ro uint to a solenoid to a fish bowl auto top off one with level control float and a high water level float and for some reason they both failed i regularly checked them as i was Leary about it but took it out and tested it on the floor for like a hour and worked every time well after the canister blew up on the ro unit on friday last week i had a dream about the float switches failing and well it happened so picked up a new tunze and a 5 gallon pail for top ups
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Old 04-15-2010, 10:32 PM
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congratulations on zero punctuation in your post, that must be a record.
teasing you mate. all is fun.
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that really sucks, is everything ok now?
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Old 04-15-2010, 11:56 PM
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Tank is right empty maybe 20 gallons of ro water all the livestock is all at bobs for the next to weeks till i recycle the tank. I will keep u posted but for the tank being 60 deg and salt at 1.015 i faired out. This was more of just a post to get people to rethink what there using for ato and the importance of checking it
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Old 04-16-2010, 01:33 AM
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Wes,

Give me a call if I can help with anything.

My warehouse is on the westend, and full of tanks, etc.. if needed.

You got my cell #.

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