Selling my Brand New Set up

[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.