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I am just wondering if anyone has any experience with undoing a plumb on a sump and re-plumbing it? I paid someone to do the plumbing and I don't think they did a very good job. Every single time I do a water change I now have to degass the lines and I am never able to balance out the return chamber to the drain. He bought an OTS pipe and it's way too long, so there's a kink at the top that I believe is creating back-pressure and air bubble resistance.
I'm beyond fed up trying to deal with this. Every single time I have to do a water change I have to deal with a water level swing nightmare and I'm ready to smash my sump to pieces. The return chamber in my sump runs dry and triggers my ATO which ends up draining my ATO reservoir and plummets my salinity, or it overflows the return chamber and the ATO alarm goes off. This time, it's decided to both at varying points of the day - and for whatever [expletive] reason, the DT water level just ended up so high that it nearly overflowed out of my display.
I want to start fresh with a hard plumb and a less hacked-together setup. Any advice is appreciated.
I'm beyond fed up trying to deal with this. Every single time I have to do a water change I have to deal with a water level swing nightmare and I'm ready to smash my sump to pieces. The return chamber in my sump runs dry and triggers my ATO which ends up draining my ATO reservoir and plummets my salinity, or it overflows the return chamber and the ATO alarm goes off. This time, it's decided to both at varying points of the day - and for whatever [expletive] reason, the DT water level just ended up so high that it nearly overflowed out of my display.
I want to start fresh with a hard plumb and a less hacked-together setup. Any advice is appreciated.