beapeams
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An Inefficent but Effective way to drain your sump.
So my wife wakes me up this morning and tells me something does not sound right and it sounds as if it is coming from the fish tank room. So I think, its the chiller (it is not very quiet). I get downstairs and my Water in my sump is just halfway up the return pump. Abot 12-15 gallons of water is out of the sump. My first thought is the Overflow loss suction and the sump pump overflowed the tank. I began checking everything out and realized water was on the floor in between my sump and QT tank. If the tank overflowed Water would not flow that way on the floor. My next assumption is somehow I had a leak in my sump. I was wrong again. After closer inspection the culprit was found. I recently raised the Return pipe on my Euro-Reef to collect more skimmate. When I did this. I had one maxi-jet power cord that came from my QT tank was touching the top of the return pipe and water ran down the cord and out of the tank. This happend over a 8 hour period. Who would have thunk it. Well this has definitly motivated me to buy the parts I need this weekend to do the wire management project I have planned.
Of all the things you think can go wrong and you plan for, it is alway something completly unexpected.
So my wife wakes me up this morning and tells me something does not sound right and it sounds as if it is coming from the fish tank room. So I think, its the chiller (it is not very quiet). I get downstairs and my Water in my sump is just halfway up the return pump. Abot 12-15 gallons of water is out of the sump. My first thought is the Overflow loss suction and the sump pump overflowed the tank. I began checking everything out and realized water was on the floor in between my sump and QT tank. If the tank overflowed Water would not flow that way on the floor. My next assumption is somehow I had a leak in my sump. I was wrong again. After closer inspection the culprit was found. I recently raised the Return pipe on my Euro-Reef to collect more skimmate. When I did this. I had one maxi-jet power cord that came from my QT tank was touching the top of the return pipe and water ran down the cord and out of the tank. This happend over a 8 hour period. Who would have thunk it. Well this has definitly motivated me to buy the parts I need this weekend to do the wire management project I have planned.
Of all the things you think can go wrong and you plan for, it is alway something completly unexpected.
