8 hours of top off/flooding kills almost everything

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

My JBJ auto-topoff has a fail safe so it will never fill more than for 3 minutes worth of water. Pretty much fool proof and been working flawlessly for 2 years, both of them (2 aquariums equiped with one).

So I limite the water available? no need to

Does the fail safe reset if the power cycles?

Sorry for your losses Nick.

[Seriak]

That is why I like the tunze ATO. It has an upper float valve that will prevent the ATO from filling if it is over a certain level. I have also combined this with a 10 gallon resevoir that shouldn't kill anything even if everything was dumped into my system. The only problem is I only get about 5 days before my resevoir is empty so someone does have to fill it when I go away for a week.

Sorry for your loss.

[nrosdal]

water parameters are back to where they should be, and the sole survivor seems to be doing much better. Was very tempted today to start re-stocking when i saw a very large elegance coral at the store.. but have decided rearrange rocks and try to make a plan before i start buying pretty things.

[ashr]

Im really sorry for your loss! Hope it gets better soon!

Also what is the www.seneye.me you are using

[nrosdal]

seneye is a small device that reads the ph/ammonia and also has a par/lux meter for checking light output. It just sits in my sump plugged into an old laptop computer and emails me if things go out of wack. Here is a link to some info. They are cool i use mine mainly so i don't need to check ph and ammonia has only ever spiked after mass die off. pretty useful if you don't have an apex or something like that.

http://reefsupplycanada.com/cgi-bin/...ada&item=58402

[nrosdal]

With a little push from a friend i have an update.

Carpet survived, orange carnation never pulled through, and still have the polyp rock in an extra sump chamber. I have re-populated with similar style(carpet now takes up much more room).

i have made a few equipment changes with the most important being that i don't have ato directly plumbed anymore. Well, i do but... it is plumbed into a ro storage tank which i open the valve and fill then shut so only 3.5-4 gal is what is avail to the tank at any time except for when filling.

Here are some pics i took not to long ago of how things have come along.

[nrosdal]

Still a work in progress..

[daniella3d]

yes as it is a mecanical settings, which you adjust with a little screw.

Anything can fail but if the jbj fail, it will rather stop working instead of flooding the tank.

It's pretty much fool proof. In case of power outage, it will simply resume working once the power is back because it is relying on the float switch. If the float switch gets stuck, it will work 3 minutes (adjustable) max.

Originally Posted by sphelps

Does the fail safe reset if the power cycles?

Sorry for your losses Nick.

[nrosdal]

Here is the video of my tank from not to long ago. Just turn volume down/off so you don't have to listen to my ramblings. I wish i knew how to take out audio and edit in some majestic music(or a Justin Beiber song).

http://youtu.be/mDpyHmfYjwM