Selling my Brand New Set up

[riceboy]

Ya I say keep it to I flooded my parents house once but that was my stupidity of having the outlet of the ato in the sump in the water at a higher level then the resorvoir. So when the ato pumped the water it started a siphon and sucked water back out. Lesson learned lol and parents were ****ed for a couple days. Almost had to get rid of the tank.

[cwatkins]

Just keep it and buy the Tunze Auto Top Off. It uses redundant sensors to ensure that it doesn't fill up your sump and overflow. Just ensure the tubing isn't submerged in the sump, otherwise as already mentioned, you could get a back siphon going.

Mine is great and haven't overflowed it once. Knock on wood.

And besides, I use an old salt bucket as my new fresh water reservoir, so it only holds about 5 gallons of water. And the sump for sure has at least 5 gallons of additional capacity, so there's no way to overflow the system, unless the drain on the tank gets plugged and the water pumped up to the tank overflows.

Good luck.

Cheers.

Also, PS. You shouldn't be using tap water in a salt tank. Some people do with success, but I'd be scared to. You really should be using RO or even RO/DI water.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by cwatkins

I use an old salt bucket as my new fresh water reservoir, so it only holds about 5 gallons of water. And the sump for sure has at least 5 gallons of additional capacity, so there's no way to overflow the system

This is what I do too. Redundancy avoids wet floors. I use the Tunze ATOs too.

Originally Posted by cwatkins

unless the drain on the tank gets plugged and the water pumped up to the tank overflows.

This is one of many reasons why I use a Herbie style overflow. Two drains. More redundancy.