Emergency occurance
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JammyBirch
Aquaria Engineering
I suppose you could add guards to your drain pipes to keep larger things like snails and fish from getting into your drains? Something such as this:
This is exactly what i use, they are really nice...need to be cleaned though once in a while.
gone fishin
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I noticed that the water level in my display was higher than usual. Once you have your tank set up for awhile and you pay attention it can tell you many things just by observing it.
I used some scrap screen mesh to go around my drains.
JMorris271
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I have a 10 K gal koi pond I put in. Like you with your tank,usually I can spot something out of order so fast that sometimes I surprise myself.
I was wondering about covering the inside top of the whole chamber supposing that that cover would not be blocked by floating bubble algae, snails, sponges and the like with proper inspection while not reducing flow. Kind of like checking an ATO reserve.
gone fishin
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some do cover the top, if I had enough of the mesh lying around I would have done so.
BTW my wife has been asking for me to dig her a koi pond. I got her some landscaping software last year for Christmas she has designed her self up a pond and surrounding gardens. I guess I know what my summer project is going to be.
BTW my wife has been asking for me to dig her a koi pond. I got her some landscaping software last year for Christmas she has designed her self up a pond and surrounding gardens. I guess I know what my summer project is going to be.
JMorris271
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My advice. Use a backhoe.
gone fishin
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Got that covered I have a small John Deere bucket loader/backhoe. Comes in handy for all kinds off things.
JMorris271
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Yeah! I bet it does.:beer: . I could keep something like that busy all the time.
I have a bean animal setup on my 75 gallon. Works perfect! My occurences have been the usual snails of course. Twice though, for reasons I cannot explain, my return pump ramped up in speed. I came home from work to the sound of water rushing down the secondary and dry emergency drains. This of course drained the return section about an inch or so, triggering the ATO to fill it. No noticable issues though; just ramped the speed back down and the system restabalized. I have no idea why it would have done that, and only twice since I've owned it (almost 1 year this January).
