So the other day I had the issue with my overflow.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2273349
While I was taking care of this issue I stopped paying attention to the other things I was affecting. I've got some extra rock sitting in my return chamber of my sump which is really a pain in the butt but I want to keep it in the water and it's the only place I've got to put it. Don't do this. Just figure out another way to keep the rock wet.
I had to move a rock around in the sump and didn't realize that I had set it on my float switch. Luckily I had the switch turned off... at least until the next morning. The chamber started running low so I opened it back up and left for the day. My car died about an hour away from home but that's a different story. Buy the time I got home the carpet was soaked. I dropped the salinity from 1.024 to 1.020 so after the sump filled to the top I put somewhere between 5-10 gallons on the floor. I brought it back up to 1.022 immediately and brought it all the way back to 1.024 the next evening (last night). Lost nothing and the carpet is almost dry this morning.
One thing I'm learning is I need to SLOW DOWN! Always moving so fast from one thing to another. Just because things have always worked out for me doesn't mean that I'm not going to get bit in the a** one of these days. I consider this a close call. It could have been so much worse.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2273349
While I was taking care of this issue I stopped paying attention to the other things I was affecting. I've got some extra rock sitting in my return chamber of my sump which is really a pain in the butt but I want to keep it in the water and it's the only place I've got to put it. Don't do this. Just figure out another way to keep the rock wet.
I had to move a rock around in the sump and didn't realize that I had set it on my float switch. Luckily I had the switch turned off... at least until the next morning. The chamber started running low so I opened it back up and left for the day. My car died about an hour away from home but that's a different story. Buy the time I got home the carpet was soaked. I dropped the salinity from 1.024 to 1.020 so after the sump filled to the top I put somewhere between 5-10 gallons on the floor. I brought it back up to 1.022 immediately and brought it all the way back to 1.024 the next evening (last night). Lost nothing and the carpet is almost dry this morning.
One thing I'm learning is I need to SLOW DOWN! Always moving so fast from one thing to another. Just because things have always worked out for me doesn't mean that I'm not going to get bit in the a** one of these days. I consider this a close call. It could have been so much worse.