Asylumdown's 275 Tank build

[asylumdown]

Originally Posted by mseepman

Love how the tank is looking. That Algae fix sounds like it's working wonders for everyone who has tried it!

Hopefully you've exhausted Murphy and his laws no longer apply to you.

I doubt it. Every time I think 'nothing can possibly go wrong now!', it finds a new way to screw with me. For example, last night after I posted I discovered that the people who were working on our HVAC system pulled the R/O hose out of the float valve when they were using the rain barrel I store my RO water in as a desk in the utility room. My R/O unit has been running continuously since Friday. The only reason there wasn't a major flood was because I did a massive water change on my tank this weekend, and then a massive water change on my QT tank the next day, so it was only overflowing for a day or two. The water was spilling out the back of the barrel, then running along the wall behind the furnace and hot water heater, so I didn't see it until it started trickling out in to the middle of the room. By that point it had soaked through a bag of left over grout, and completely filled up one of the slab heat access panels in the floor. Thankfully the utility room walls are all plywood, so the water didn't wreck them, and it doesn't seem to have soaked through to the baseboard on the other side.

I've siliconed the R/O hose right to the float switch now. Hopefully that won't happen again. I'm going to look in to setting up an emergency drain on the rain barrel so that if it does overflow again, it will just go straight to the drain in the middle of the room.