A little help plz

[wreck]

Hey everyone!

I recently set up my 65 , and I bought a jobs ato and also bought a toms aqua lifter to pump my ato water.

I made a huge mistake, I hooked up my atom reservoir and put a float valve in it, so that once the water level depleted it would auto fill back up. From the reservoir to my tank I am using a aqua lifter to top up controlled by my jobs. Well the pump shuts off when the ato tells it to but the aqua lifter keeps siphoning. Well with that happening I was slowing turning my sw into fw fml!!

Salinity dropped to 1.020 and I'm bringing it back up.

Needless to say I will manually fill resovoir few time a week, but how the heck do I get this aqua lifter to shut off and not siphon ?

I'm at a loss

[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.