Just a friendly community service reminder

[jjjimmy]

Five minutes or less putting an eyeball on your support equipment can save you hours of grief and thousands of dollars.

Came home to find out that the impeller on my auto top off pump took a crap. A spare few minutes, a cheap replacement part that I always keep on hand and everything is still running smoothly.

Please take a few minutes to look at your equipment every day. Keep a few spare parts around (seals, impellers, hose, just to name a few) and you can easily turn a potential disaster into a minor inconvenience.

Reef on brothers and sisters,

Jimmy

 

[Pyrrhus]

sound advice.

 

[MiddletonMark]

Great advice Jimmy.

My return pump went out at 4:00 am [thankfully set off Osmolator alarm] on a Friday morning in November.

That old, crappy return pump that's undersized ... thank goodness I didn't sell or toss it. Similarly, digging through my box of PVC parts found the adapters I was also desperate for.

Took all of an hour to do a quick clean of the spare pump, find the right fittings, and swap out the dead pump.

Like Jimmy said, sometimes having spare parts is priceless ... and change a potential large problem into nothing more than a hassle, quickly past

 

[jgleach]

Re: Just a friendly community service reminder

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6713373#post6713373 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jjjimmy
Five minutes or less putting an eyeball on your support equipment can save you hours of grief and thousands of dollars.

jjjimmy....you may have noticed this in the CMAS forum....I just happened to walk around behind my inwall 180 today....no real need to go back there, but I was just checking things out....noticed dripping (about a drop per second) coming from one corner of my 125 gallon frag tank....Upon further inspection I noticed that the front pane of glass was beginning to pull free. It had separated 1/16th to 1/8th of an inch at the seam....this was a disaster in the making. I would have ended up with the tank contents as well as the contents of my 100 gal sump on the floor....not to mention the probability of 3 burned up pumps and the loss of the corals in the frag tank. Luckily, I was able to relocate the corals from the frag tank into the display tank and drain the frag tank before it got worse. If I hadn't walked around back to check things out, I'd be in a world of hurt right now....

Jeff

 

[jjjimmy]

Jeff, I did actually catch that yesterday and you were trying to scramble to get a replacement tank to swap out. I am very glad for you that you caught it before it got worse.

Once again, a couple of minutes and a pair of eyeballs saved the day.

 

[Lunchbucket]

jjjimmy - i agree. i check my equipment MULTIPLE times/day. this is my biggest fear that somethign will malfunction and kill my beloved reef

jgleach - glad you got htat all straightened out before you had a HUGE problem

Lunchbucket

 

[jgleach]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6737662#post6737662 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Lunchbucket

jgleach - glad you got htat all straightened out before you had a HUGE problem

Lunchbucket

Lunchbucket....Thanks, but I wouldn't exactly say that I got it all straightened out....just stable... ....but I did avert a MAJOR disaster.

Jeff

 

[Lunchbucket]

jgleach - true true. it will be straight soon

Lunchbucket