i had the return pump on the reef keeper so when i do get a check valve installed i can set it to turn off when i feed and for standbys for water changes ect.
and brent so you have had a problem with your check valves? what type are they?
why do you have your return pump on the reefkeeper? I would keep it on a continuous power supply. Ive never had a problem with my stuff restarting tho.
The flapper type is the only type worth using like fosters and smith or brs places like that but I am telling you again you are better off to drill your returns just to suck air when the power goes off. Easy to clean and have less trouble with it! Listen!
-- Edited by leb on Sunday 27th of May 2012 06:24:22 PM
There is a default you can set for when the power goes out to on. Check that because the default is off. Personally I don't like mine that much but its what I have. I've had a lot of check valves and they never work. They are designed around a lot more pressure and no algae or tunicates. Good luck.
yeah thats a though lee, ive been meaning to purchase a check valve just never have, i did however get come cool lock line check valves for the 40g though.
Not this month but ye several times.
You should make shire your ank will not overflow when power is turned off. Depending on your set up you can loose corl when this happens.
You can drill a small hole in the top side neck of your returnes an put a piece of tubing in it that way when power goes off it will drain dowd to the tubes and suck air and stop the syphen.
hey last night i came home and my tank looked like something had just went horribly wrong lights were off water in the tank was about a 1/4 of the way down and the sump was completely full and a little water had run ovver the sump.
after further inspection i figured out whent wrong. we must have had a breif power outage and when the power came back on my lights and return pump did not come back on line the chanel for the return pump was set to always on so why didnt it come back online? somehow when the power went off and came back the chanel got switched off. and dummy me hasnt put a check valve on my returns on the 55 and it back syphoned the tank into the sump untill the returns drew air. luckily for me no damage has been done that i can tell and i only lost about a gallon of water.
everything is back and running again but im left with a few questions
why didnt my reef keeper remember some of the settings and not all of them?
is there a cmos type battery in the reef keeper that i can replace?
has anyone had a omfg what happend type of moment this month with their tanks ?
