Hi everyone,
I woke up the other day with the water in my tank pretty much exactly flush with the top rim of my tank and my ato reservoir half empty (filled it the night before). Luckily I caught it before it overflowed.
I’m wondering if I could get some ideas on how I can get my new filtration setup working properly and safely with my ATO.
My tank is an old Fluval flex 9 gal (Aio type filtration) that I converted to saltwater about two or three years ago.
Originally Ive never had an issue with my ATO but now that I’ve “upgraded”/modded the AIO section I’m having issues getting it to work without either flooding the tank or just not topping it off enough depending on where my ato sensor is placed (Display = not topping off enough and middle/return pump chamber = over topping/flood).
the upgrade was a new sicce syncra silent 0.5 (185gph) return pump to replace the stock pump since I felt like I didn’t have enough flow through the AIO chambers.
the other upgrade/mod was adding an intank media basket #1 to the first overflow/underflow chamber which blocks off the grate on the underflow section. I had the underflow grate blocked off originally anyway.
So these two upgrades together don’t seem cause an issue but as soon as I put filter floss into the overflow in the Intank media basket I can’t keep the water level stable enough in my display or the aio chambers.
Right now the only thing I can think to do is to either only use the filter floss after a tank cleaning or rock blasting and take it out after an hour or two. Stop using filter floss completely which I’d rather not do but might have to, or possibly cut an emergency overflow into the back wall of the middle or return chamber.
does anyone have any ideas or solutions that I’m maybe not thinking about?
let me know what you think.
I woke up the other day with the water in my tank pretty much exactly flush with the top rim of my tank and my ato reservoir half empty (filled it the night before). Luckily I caught it before it overflowed.
I’m wondering if I could get some ideas on how I can get my new filtration setup working properly and safely with my ATO.
My tank is an old Fluval flex 9 gal (Aio type filtration) that I converted to saltwater about two or three years ago.
Originally Ive never had an issue with my ATO but now that I’ve “upgraded”/modded the AIO section I’m having issues getting it to work without either flooding the tank or just not topping it off enough depending on where my ato sensor is placed (Display = not topping off enough and middle/return pump chamber = over topping/flood).
the upgrade was a new sicce syncra silent 0.5 (185gph) return pump to replace the stock pump since I felt like I didn’t have enough flow through the AIO chambers.
the other upgrade/mod was adding an intank media basket #1 to the first overflow/underflow chamber which blocks off the grate on the underflow section. I had the underflow grate blocked off originally anyway.
So these two upgrades together don’t seem cause an issue but as soon as I put filter floss into the overflow in the Intank media basket I can’t keep the water level stable enough in my display or the aio chambers.
Right now the only thing I can think to do is to either only use the filter floss after a tank cleaning or rock blasting and take it out after an hour or two. Stop using filter floss completely which I’d rather not do but might have to, or possibly cut an emergency overflow into the back wall of the middle or return chamber.
does anyone have any ideas or solutions that I’m maybe not thinking about?
let me know what you think.