tank crashed
- Thread starter NYreefNoob
- Start date
- Location
- Wallingford, CT
I never trust mechanical or electronic float activated pumps to top off. Have used a Litermeter for the past 6 years and works as intended.
- Location
- Westbury L.i
dam sorry bro....give yourself a few days to get back on track with the tank...you'll be back at it...
Pumping Kalk is a bad idea... Gravity and limited freshwater reservoir limits amount of kalk added in a failure mode.
People dealt with the same type of disaster by adding vinegar to lower the PH and participated out kalk in the tank, some of the coral and fish were saved.
People dealt with the same type of disaster by adding vinegar to lower the PH and participated out kalk in the tank, some of the coral and fish were saved.
- Location
- Southampton UK
Hey Rick, realy sorry to here this. Its a real heartbreaking task clearing a bunch of dead corals etc out of a tank. done it myself over the years on one of my own and a few friends so your not alone.
Re the kalk and top up. A system ive installed a few times thats proved pretty bullet proof over the years is a the limited duel method as follows.
Start off with a top up tank that is limited in size to offer a maximum of 3 days worth of top up at any one time. and set the RO unit up on a timed solenoid to top this tank up once every two days. then run your top up pump from this tank via double in line float switches (obviously making sure to avoid all the normal pitfalls of float switches, ie protecting them from snails etc) running two in series ensures that a stuck one wont lock on the top up.
Then run your Kalk stirrer from a peri pump that draws from your top up tank, on a timer so you can control the dose reliably over the 24 hour period....the more you dose, the less pure ro top up you use, and visa versa.
doing it this way offers you greater control over your kalk addition and your top up, plus the overal availability of water is limited to a volume that wont wipe out the system if something locks on.
again, my thoughts are with you, and hope everything pulls round.
all the best
Simon.
Re the kalk and top up. A system ive installed a few times thats proved pretty bullet proof over the years is a the limited duel method as follows.
Start off with a top up tank that is limited in size to offer a maximum of 3 days worth of top up at any one time. and set the RO unit up on a timed solenoid to top this tank up once every two days. then run your top up pump from this tank via double in line float switches (obviously making sure to avoid all the normal pitfalls of float switches, ie protecting them from snails etc) running two in series ensures that a stuck one wont lock on the top up.
Then run your Kalk stirrer from a peri pump that draws from your top up tank, on a timer so you can control the dose reliably over the 24 hour period....the more you dose, the less pure ro top up you use, and visa versa.
doing it this way offers you greater control over your kalk addition and your top up, plus the overal availability of water is limited to a volume that wont wipe out the system if something locks on.
again, my thoughts are with you, and hope everything pulls round.
all the best
Simon.
- Location
- Flushing NY 11355
So sorry to hear that.
I think we should share more ways of how to prevent or protect from such crashes.
I think we should share more ways of how to prevent or protect from such crashes.
Rick, I am so sorry to read this! I kinda know how you must be feeling, and I share your pain. I only wish there was a way for me to help.
I'm sorry!!!!!!!!!!
Your next tank will look even better.
You just wait and see......
I'm sorry!!!!!!!!!!
Your next tank will look even better.
You just wait and see......
- Location
- Ossining, NY
Bummer, rick - hope everything gets back on track soon. Good luck with the break and new build
House
House
- Location
- poughquag, ny
figure another month and new tank will be up, i lost all my fairy and flasher wrasse's, my elegante blenny all 44 sps all my chalices seems the only thing that has made it is my zoa's. clams are still up in air if they make it. m all the other fish made it. now my daughter can actually say her tank is nicer then mine :irked:
- Location
- Brooklyn / CNY
"The dreaded phone call" we all so afraid of!
Sux man.
Sux man.
- Location
- Long Island, New York
That is a terrible thing to have happen....Sorry to hear about it.
- Location
- Rockaway Park
that sucks! your tank was so nice!! good luck with the new set up!
- Location
- poughquag, ny
appriciate it guys, things are finally cleaned up, rock is re-cooking { yeah no more xenia } sand is in another tub running with a filter also
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