The two 60 gallon containers are controlled by manual ball valves. They are for water changes and for filling my ato container. They are not part of the operating system. My ato has two floats, but since the relay stuck, the redundant floats didn't matter. The fresh water would not have been a problem, but all of my top off goes through a kalk reactor, and all that high pH water is what caused the problem.
I'm having big fun now...390 display +
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brucem
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Hey mike you could use your ato through your ac3 and use the break out box to control your ato instead of a cheap relay. That way the ac3 can turn off the pump if it ph gets above 8.5 .Mine is set to top off with kalk till 8.20 after that it tops off with ro water.
The ac3 can accept two inputs so you can have a high float switch also
Bruce
The ac3 can accept two inputs so you can have a high float switch also
Bruce
SCIFI_3D_zoo
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Well... I guess a ATO dump could do some damage. Dumping all that RO water in could mess up your salinity a bit? Depends I guess on how much total volume it is to your display. Won't really mess up your pH much. The only other thing I worried about was spillage. So my sump is extra tall to hold all my ATO and any siphon effect... even though I don't have a siphon mod on my return right now. BUT it is a PIA in get into the sump being so tall. It scrapes my arms up sometimes. I wish I would have sanded it down now or something.
Bruce, great idea. I'll be on the Neptune site in a minute.
SCIFI, I have an overflow drain on my sump for a worst case scenario. It flows straight out the sump, through the wall and into a drain. My sump has about 44 gallons of reserve space.
Bax, my plan was to have enough top-off for at least 3 days. Trying to lessen the work load. I should have thought it out a little better.
SCIFI, I have an overflow drain on my sump for a worst case scenario. It flows straight out the sump, through the wall and into a drain. My sump has about 44 gallons of reserve space.
Bax, my plan was to have enough top-off for at least 3 days. Trying to lessen the work load. I should have thought it out a little better.
I ordered the break out box, so I will be able to solve that problem permanently, I hope! Thanks for all the help Bruce. I'll call you again for programming assistance when I get the hardware hooked up.
I added two more vials of Bio Digest, and John at FAOIS gave me a bucket of "stuff" from the bottom of his rock tank to help make sure I have some live bacteria. I think I'm ok since NH3 and NO2 were undetectable during the many tests I did over the 5 days following the BIG problem.
I finally got all my parameters back under control. I wasn't focused on Alk, Ca, Mg during all the water changes. I'm dosing the Kent Marine Tech M again to get my Mg way up. The Bryopsis was just starting to die off when the BIG problem arose.
I started removing coral skeletons today...how depressing...
I'll give it a couple of months to make sure the tank is ready again for some new stuff, and then start coral shopping.
Thanks Stephen (Boydx6), Joe (poknsnok) and Emmett (Emster) for the offers.
I added two more vials of Bio Digest, and John at FAOIS gave me a bucket of "stuff" from the bottom of his rock tank to help make sure I have some live bacteria. I think I'm ok since NH3 and NO2 were undetectable during the many tests I did over the 5 days following the BIG problem.
I finally got all my parameters back under control. I wasn't focused on Alk, Ca, Mg during all the water changes. I'm dosing the Kent Marine Tech M again to get my Mg way up. The Bryopsis was just starting to die off when the BIG problem arose.
I started removing coral skeletons today...how depressing...
I'll give it a couple of months to make sure the tank is ready again for some new stuff, and then start coral shopping.
Thanks Stephen (Boydx6), Joe (poknsnok) and Emmett (Emster) for the offers.
TheSaltwaterGuy
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Fuge looks good. Keep us posted.
chrismhaase
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Mike, I am so sorry for your troubles. I just got back here on RC and read what had happened. Man o man that sucks. Well let me know when you are collecting again. I have some stuff I can thin out. PM me or call when you are ready. Also, if you want some rock, sand or macros let me know, the are yours if you need them.
gsellers1245
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ill also do what i can to get your corals back up and growing
ben&bobbi
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mike, man i was behind reading your thread. again sorry about the loss, i know you have been very particular with everything you do with that tank!
just a small idea from here - our float switch came with a "snail guard" this also helped keeping the water from tripping our float switch constantly, since the water has to enter though the holes in the bottom. Pretty much the float switch is linear, mounted in a PVC cap facing down, there is a short piece of pipe, then another cap with holes drilled in the bottom - kinda like a pill capsule. This was bought from autotopoff.com.
just a small idea from here - our float switch came with a "snail guard" this also helped keeping the water from tripping our float switch constantly, since the water has to enter though the holes in the bottom. Pretty much the float switch is linear, mounted in a PVC cap facing down, there is a short piece of pipe, then another cap with holes drilled in the bottom - kinda like a pill capsule. This was bought from autotopoff.com.
Sorry about the losses man! If you are into yuma's I have a couple of nice bud's for ya. I'd like to stop by sometime and check you system out. I'm in the planning stages of something similar and Seeing something and talking to someone with a similar system is a real help to me.
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