That's awesome, I'll need to try that. I had two things happen recently. One was what you said, a massive horrible smell. I thought for sure a fish had died somewhere (i have large fish). I searched for days for the source smell, emptying the skimmer bucket multiple times. Cleaning the algae scrubber thoroughly. Cleaning my overflows thoroughly. Then discovered it was the plank auto feeder. I made the mistake of turning it upside down over the tank to look in it and dumped all the rotten gelatinous food into the tank.. Well, thankfully nothing adverse came of that. The corals loved it and the fish ignored anything too rotten. Lol. I tried cleaning the pump and discovered a snail had climbed into the gear shaft of the pump (or an egg hatched inside the pump? ) Either way it had shut down the entire pump. Got the snail out and cleaned it thoroughly and smell was gone.
2. When I reseated the pump I forgot how far down the pump should be. I started having water overflow the mounting bracket onto the floor.
Having something to adjust the flow better would be ideal! I'll check this out.
