About two weeks or so ago, I did some maintenance in my basement fish room (replacing RO filters, cleaning skimmer cup, water change, etc..). I havent been back down to the fish room until just an hour ago... and lo and behold, water on the floor. Lots of water on the floor. I dont know how long I've had the water there since I rarely go down to that side of the basement. The culprit--the output hose from my denitrator reactor. It must've gotten knocked down during maintenance and been spewing water without my knowledge.
Why such low salinity? My ATO has been putting fresh water to replace the lost water. I dont know how much I've lost but I know that its a lot. The salinity was @ 1.022 for a 350g system and just checked it now and it was @ 1.010. It mustve been a lot. ::
Because its a FO system, thankfullly I've only lost two damsels--happened earlier this week but I thought it was just a one off. The bigger fishes (few tangs, clown trigger and couple of angels) seem to be okay for now.
I'm currently mixing ~35g of extremely concentrated saltwater for top off that I will introduce slowly to the system.
Lesson learned: After any kind of maintenance, create a checklist of what you need to check before leaving the fishroom--and any output hose of any kind should be on that list!
Next project for me: hooking up a water sensor to my Apex. Anyone installed one of these?
TLDR: My output hose from one of my reactor slipped to the floor without my knowledge creating a mini flood in my basement fishroom.
Back to the fishroom...
Why such low salinity? My ATO has been putting fresh water to replace the lost water. I dont know how much I've lost but I know that its a lot. The salinity was @ 1.022 for a 350g system and just checked it now and it was @ 1.010. It mustve been a lot. ::
Because its a FO system, thankfullly I've only lost two damsels--happened earlier this week but I thought it was just a one off. The bigger fishes (few tangs, clown trigger and couple of angels) seem to be okay for now.
I'm currently mixing ~35g of extremely concentrated saltwater for top off that I will introduce slowly to the system.
Lesson learned: After any kind of maintenance, create a checklist of what you need to check before leaving the fishroom--and any output hose of any kind should be on that list!
Next project for me: hooking up a water sensor to my Apex. Anyone installed one of these?
TLDR: My output hose from one of my reactor slipped to the floor without my knowledge creating a mini flood in my basement fishroom.
Back to the fishroom...