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Post by BriMc on Mar 21, 2014 8:44:39 GMT -5
Last night I figured I'd clean my skimmer collection cup and top of my sump. After cleaning the cup I re adjusted the exit pipe of the skimmer but didn't realize I read the scale on the pipe wrong. After running the make up water for almost three hours and my sump not getting any fuller I looked and the skimmer was emptying everything I put into the sump. I figured I did about a 50 % water change and this morning nothing in the tank looks happy. Moral of this story don't work on your tank when you are exhausted. |
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Post by gotareef on Mar 21, 2014 8:50:00 GMT -5
wana come mess up on my tank, I could use a big waterchange  at least thats all it did, you could have doubled the salt and killed everything (I did it once was so sad) |
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Post by BriMc on Mar 21, 2014 8:52:44 GMT -5
The good part was I was topping off with premixed water instead of straight RO so all the parameters were spot on.
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Post by moulton712 on Mar 21, 2014 10:38:36 GMT -5
I hope everything works out. Everything in the tank is probably unhappy.
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Post by doverdoug on Mar 21, 2014 14:22:30 GMT -5
Im running straight rodi water through my ato and my system decreases in salinity from 34 to about 32.5 in a week or so due to skimming I think. Are you adding salt to your ato water?
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Post by Lance on Mar 21, 2014 16:19:36 GMT -5
Im running straight rodi water through my ato and my system decreases in salinity from 34 to about 32.5 in a week or so due to skimming I think. Are you adding salt to your ato water? That's weird. I've never had a salinity change due to skimming. Straight RODI for me in the top off water. Are you removing a lot of liquid with your skimmer? What size tank is this? |
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Post by doverdoug on Mar 21, 2014 18:27:04 GMT -5
Just a baby 37 gal hoping not to see this swing so much with the 125 g
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Post by jasonandsarah on Mar 22, 2014 6:15:39 GMT -5
If it consistently does this try putting like a half a scoop of salt in your top off water so it has low salinity levels and hopefully you won't have this problem.
Don't put salt in your top off water though unless this happens EVERY time. You'd much rather it go down in salinity slowly to 32.5 rather then go up to 37.5 or 38
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Post by BriMc on Mar 22, 2014 8:03:28 GMT -5
Everyone in my tank is happy and smiling again!
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Post by gotareef on Mar 22, 2014 8:40:47 GMT -5
glad to hear!
you should never have to top off with sw. salt dosnt evaporate if you are adding sw top off to maintain salinity I would be looking for a leak somewhere...
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Post by jasonandsarah on Mar 22, 2014 8:59:38 GMT -5
He said he thinks it's from his skimmer?? Might be wet skimming just a little to much? But if it's consistently making the salinity go down that's probably not a good thing
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