I was doing some regular weekly maintenance yesterday and just decided to shine a flashlight onto the bulkheads way in the back of the stand - and found my main drain line bulkhead covered in wet salt. I wiped it off and tried that thing where you ignore something and it goes away...then a few hours later I came back and it was definitely wet again, so that didn't work.
It's extremely hard to access - but I tried tightening it with a wrench (lightly) and a serious drip started that I couldn't stop. The little bracket part was fused to the bulkhead itself, and I couldn't even twist it loose without some serious effort and I kept losing grip and almost destroying the tank.
Long story short, I had to drain the overflow, cut off the old plumbing and replace with a new bulkhead. Definitely not ideal working with power tools under the tank with 200g sitting above me. Some of y'all do this a lot - but this was a new experience for me and it involved a great deal of panicking.
I'm just glad I found it before it just completely failed. So....check those bulkheads!
It's extremely hard to access - but I tried tightening it with a wrench (lightly) and a serious drip started that I couldn't stop. The little bracket part was fused to the bulkhead itself, and I couldn't even twist it loose without some serious effort and I kept losing grip and almost destroying the tank.
Long story short, I had to drain the overflow, cut off the old plumbing and replace with a new bulkhead. Definitely not ideal working with power tools under the tank with 200g sitting above me. Some of y'all do this a lot - but this was a new experience for me and it involved a great deal of panicking.
I'm just glad I found it before it just completely failed. So....check those bulkheads!