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What in the f?!
That thing was so heavy for no reason too.
Left the sand bed and just enough water to keep the sand covered- all that fragile weight with water sloshing around going down 3 flights of stairs and loading it into a truck. Then unloading and taking it up to the other apartment; just thinking about it gets me worked up lol.
Every once in a while i wish i would have gotten with a larger All-in-one because it's so dang hard to reach stability in just 17 gal of water (25gal with rock and sand gets me 17g of water), but at the same time, i feel like it's a great size for me. I'm going to move again sometime in the future at least one more time, it might be down the street, it might be an hour away or a few states away, and i definitely don't want to deal with moving a bigger tank.
Do you guys with proper big boy tank with sumps, do you ever get worried about a pump malfunctioning and overflowing the system? That's another thing i love about my AIO, peace of mind in that regard. I've woken up from naps on the couch to the sound of RODI water spilling on my laundry room lol.
I'm on the top floor of my building with about 140 gallons in my Red Sea 525. I'm not really worried about overflowing. I tried to design it so that it's flood proof. All the plumbing is tightly secured, the ATO is small enough that the sump can't overflow, there's a backup drain to prevent the tank from overflowing, etc. Even if the tank backup drain was clogged, the return pump chamber is small enough that the pump would run dry before the tank overflowed. There's really nothing to worry about aside from the tank itself breaking.
The one problem is RODI. At first I just filled buckets, but once I forget and left it on overnight. I must have overflowed at least 20 gallons. I was sure someone below me was going to complain, but I never heard anything. I guess the concrete subfloors didn't let it through. Anyway, because of that issue I set up an RODI system that can't flood: it has a shut off valve.