flood

I have posted previously about my tank. A 3 gallon with inverts. In my area we had severe flooding thursday/friday to the point people lost their lives. My apartment got flooded and it damaged a lot of furniture including my bed. So I have been sleeping at my brother’s house in the meantime...

Are check valves worth using for plumbing systems such as the return line or should they be avoided completely?

I have a eshopps 1200 HOB overflow that broke siphon this morning overflowing my display I unplugged my pump and restarted the siphon and now it nearly outpaced my 1500 GpH jebado dc pump the 5000 model. I had it running perfect but now I’m afraid it’ll screw up when I leave for work in 2 hours...

Well, I'm blessed this time because the disaster could have been so much worse. My Tunze RODI solenoid that sits behind my 150 gallon tank and manages my top-off, failed big-time this week. By failed, I mean that the brass snapped (how does this even happen with low pressure purified water...

I live in a condo on the bottom story. The people above me broke a pipe in the wall and flooded my house and ruined my flooring. This was a few weeks ago and I have people coming out to lay tile on Monday. I’m trying to figure out what is the best way to store everything. Because it’s tile and...

I got up this morning to a flood. The return hose that leads from my sump back into the display had come off the pump and the pump was spraying water everywhere. Great way to start the day (sarcasm). Fortunately the way the tank overflow works I only "lost" about 10 gallons. Even more...