Almost a Disaster!

shornik · Aug 3, 2015

Quick question. I almost had a disaster. Water started siphoning from my tank to my ATO. I caught it after a few minutes and I'm mixing up some salt water to add back to the tank. What's the shortest time I can wait for the salt water to be ready?

Tahoe61 · Aug 3, 2015

If it's dissolved you can add it. Move your ATO line above the water line so that does not happen again.

shornik · Aug 3, 2015

Tahoe61 said:
If it's dissolved you can add it. Move your ATO line above the water line so that does not happen again.

Yeah I think what happened was I turned off the wrong switch when I went to feed my corals, and turned it right back on, which caused the ATO pump to turn off and on and off really quickly creating a siphon. With my pumps off the water increased in my sump and thus the ATO line got submerged, at least thats all I can think of.

But really, really thanks for getting back so quickly with a response, I appreciate it.