well heres the short version
1. went to make saltwater last night and tuned pump on from RO container to Saltmixing container (forgot to shut it off)
2. Turned RO unit on to make RO (Forgot to turn knob from Rinse so discharged water all night)
3. remembered this am (OMG i just wasted water all night) turned knob at 6am to on position)
4. Came home to sump full of water (25 gallons extra water)... (how could this happen i only have 5 gallon ATO
5. See #1... all new RO water pumped directly to my 32 gallon saltwater mixing brute(but still how did it get to my tank)
6. as water reached the top of the 32 galon bute it overflowed alowing some water to reach the floor but ironically most found this nice little path down the side across the handle which was residing (you guesed it right over my sump). it dripped in their at aproxematly 25 gallons over 11 hours
so of some 200 gallons of water in my tank that was at 35ppt it is now at 31 ppt
I took the offending 25 gallons of water out and mixed it to 80 ppt my top off will now come from this high salinity water and between that and evap will slowley raise salinity up back to normal over next week or so... ill be monitoring this daily
Im telling you you couldnt plan something like this to happen LOL
the drop in salinity shouldnt hurt anything to much (i hope) and as long as its brought back up slowly im hopefully everythign will be aliright
1. went to make saltwater last night and tuned pump on from RO container to Saltmixing container (forgot to shut it off)
2. Turned RO unit on to make RO (Forgot to turn knob from Rinse so discharged water all night)
3. remembered this am (OMG i just wasted water all night) turned knob at 6am to on position)
4. Came home to sump full of water (25 gallons extra water)... (how could this happen i only have 5 gallon ATO
5. See #1... all new RO water pumped directly to my 32 gallon saltwater mixing brute(but still how did it get to my tank)
6. as water reached the top of the 32 galon bute it overflowed alowing some water to reach the floor but ironically most found this nice little path down the side across the handle which was residing (you guesed it right over my sump). it dripped in their at aproxematly 25 gallons over 11 hours
so of some 200 gallons of water in my tank that was at 35ppt it is now at 31 ppt
I took the offending 25 gallons of water out and mixed it to 80 ppt my top off will now come from this high salinity water and between that and evap will slowley raise salinity up back to normal over next week or so... ill be monitoring this daily
Im telling you you couldnt plan something like this to happen LOL
the drop in salinity shouldnt hurt anything to much (i hope) and as long as its brought back up slowly im hopefully everythign will be aliright
