A little help plz

[scubadawg]

Make sure the hose going into your top off is not in the water, otherwise water will flow back

[The Grizz]

and make sure your res is not higher then the sump as water will flow downhill into your sump once the pump shuts off.

[wreck]

Awesome guys the res is higher than the sump. That must be the prob. I will check it out . Thanks!

Mn I made some pretty stupid mistakes lol

[Madreefer]

Go get a one way check valve and you wont have to adjust the height of reservoir or have to worry about this h.appening ever again. And 1.20sg not gonna hurt anything if it was just short term.

[kien]

In line with what has already been suggested, here's what I do..



Essentially, I find a a firm hose or pipe that is larger than the hose of the ATO and stuff the ATO hose into the larger pipe (red in the diagram) but making sure that the connection isn't air or water tight. The ATO hose simply sits loosly into the larger pipe that goes into the sump. Really the larger pipe just serves as a guide for the water to flow down into the sump while allowing the outlet of the ATO to be way up above the water line of the ATO reservoir and sump. The guide pipe also eliminates splashing of the ATO water since the outlet is so high up.

[wreck]

Awesome guys thanks, I will take a pic before and after to show u how I had it set up

[axe_man16]

I had the same thing happen to me Kiens pic is exactly what you need, make sure your outlet of you lifter is higher than the res water level.