FrozenReefer
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For the past three days I've been chasing a phantom leak. Every morning I wake up to my leak alarms screaming. I dry everything, crawl around with a flashlight, and find… nothing. No drip, no splash, no puddle with a clear source. By day three I'd started to question my sanity and was about to tear the whole system apart.
I'd checked everything. External refugium? Dry. Dosing pumps? All lines connected. I traced every line from the pumps to the wall, right up to where they meet the tank. ATO? Fine. Around the tank? Nothing.
Then I found it.
The lesson: just because a dosing line heads toward your tank doesn't mean it actually ends in the water. At some point my Kalkwasser line had worked its way out of the sump and was dangling over the side. For three days I've been carefully dosing my floor.
On the bright side, my floor's alkalinity has never been more stable.
Lesson learned: secure your dosing lines with clips or a dosing head so they can't wander, and when you trace a line, follow it all the way into the water.
So, your turn. What's the dumbest mistake you've made in this hobby? Make me feel better
I'd checked everything. External refugium? Dry. Dosing pumps? All lines connected. I traced every line from the pumps to the wall, right up to where they meet the tank. ATO? Fine. Around the tank? Nothing.
Then I found it.
The lesson: just because a dosing line heads toward your tank doesn't mean it actually ends in the water. At some point my Kalkwasser line had worked its way out of the sump and was dangling over the side. For three days I've been carefully dosing my floor.
On the bright side, my floor's alkalinity has never been more stable.
Lesson learned: secure your dosing lines with clips or a dosing head so they can't wander, and when you trace a line, follow it all the way into the water.
So, your turn. What's the dumbest mistake you've made in this hobby? Make me feel better
