reef Posted January 18, 2005 Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Before going to work today I thought I would do a quick top up. I turned on my DI and went and did in few other things. At work I get a call at 7pm to say that my lights aren’t on and that there is water coming out of my sump. I could not believe that I forgot to turn the DI off. and topped up about 1500L of fresh water. I rushed home and added 40Kg of salt into my skimmer over 1 hour to get the salinity up to 1.025-1.026 As lucky, as I can’t see any loses after adding freshwater for 12 hours, Salinity dropped to 1.010 And to top it off it off this was my 3rd time in the space of 2 months. You would think I learnt a lesson the first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted January 18, 2005 Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Not again. You should hook you DI up to a garden water timer so it turns off after a certain time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brianemone Posted January 18, 2005 Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 scary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RnB Posted January 18, 2005 Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Sorry to hear this, I hope you only have limited losses. Automation fails, humans err no easy answer I consider myself very lucky that with over 2 years away from my tank 5 days a week, I have had no issues at all due to failed technology. that said I keep things REAL SIMPLE for this reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 here you go alois http://www.aquaticeco.com/index.cfm/fus ... 6/cid/2954 RnB - what do you mean keep things real simple for this reason. Even simple things fail and as you say, human's still err - you're contradicting yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 Chim, are you saying RnB is simple? Not nice, not nice at all. Alan 104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RnB Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 i have lots of live rock heaters are in tank (one set to keep at 24, one at 26) pumps and heaters are on a a/b breaker arrangement. my tv is on A, video on b if a or b go flatties will reset to get tv on I have found skimmer cup overflowing back into sump after 5 days away a few times, no real bad effects so far. I have auto topup but limit the total in the system to 30L, and tank is about 500L so even all in at once not a disater. tanks acrylic so chance of springing a leak is way lower (personal opinion here, but you gotta see the joins!!!!!) lights now on IKS, but had issues with cheap timers, will never use cheap timers again... had MH on for 5 days once... ouch! i never dose kalk or additives while away...... flatties throw in food every 2nd day, but tank can survie for 5 days no feeding and often has... 4-5 times per year! plumbing has no joins... all pipes flexible 1 piece! this will prob change now home all the time, but was major consideration when away. chim - lots of people called me lots worse then simple ;^) I have left my RO/DI system running overnight by accident twice! but i would never trust myself to run it into the tank directly... also when syphoning out the pipe bore is so big, it takes about 15 sec to fill a 25L container so no chance of leaving it running.... Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 and i never even called you simple :lol: im a little the opposite,.. I only spend money on quality equipment that is far less likely to fail. i've had cheaper pumps at the bottom of my closed loops that have leaked - never again. :-? admittedly i've spent a $#@%-load for the size of my tank - but reefing is a lifetime hobby and i've got a life to enjoy it - not to mention a life to live outside of reef-keeping so the less maintenance for me the better (albeit an expensive one to setup!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RnB Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 i use an ehiem as return, a 1060 not the best pump but as it is "in-sump" , less chance of leakage..... I am sure as soon as I "upgrade" the setup with time saving thingies..... disaster will be close at hand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 At least with my ghetto autotopoff the worst case is it dumps about 20 liters of FW into the tank. I thought you had some expensive tunze topoff or something, Reef? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef Posted January 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 I thought you had some expensive tunze topoff Yep it works great. however was changing a few things so did not have it going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 i use an ehiem as return, a 1060 Peter - what about the Iwaki 40RXT pump you have? Not hooked this up yet?!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RnB Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 no..... :oops: have been training for coast to coast and other things..... but I have made the mounting plate etc for it. Just have to get a through fitting for the sump and all is away! I may yet convert from a plastic contaner sump to a glass one with fitting already installed I got from AW ages ago when he sold up. will def increase my in tank flow as I will put the 1060 into the tank... that will give 40 as return, 2 x 1060 + 2 x tunze pulsing pumps (old but seemingly reliable) Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted January 20, 2005 Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 Reef <>Hows the tank going any problems with corals, fish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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