So last night, I was vacuuming my carpet in the room my tank is in and it tripped my circuit breaker. I turned off some of the aquarium stuff in order to finish vacuuming, reset the circuit breaker and continued to vacuum.
Turned off the vacuum and I hear water! I go over to the tank, and it looks like the water level is about 1 inch below normal and my ATO reserve is overflowing!
Moral of the story: use the siphon stop or a check valve! I don't know what I was thinking when I disregarded that little plastic piece that came with my ATO, but it sure was a lesson learned.
I'm lucky to have been there when it happened. It could have been much worse!
Turned off the vacuum and I hear water! I go over to the tank, and it looks like the water level is about 1 inch below normal and my ATO reserve is overflowing!
Moral of the story: use the siphon stop or a check valve! I don't know what I was thinking when I disregarded that little plastic piece that came with my ATO, but it sure was a lesson learned.
I'm lucky to have been there when it happened. It could have been much worse!