Monday, June 28, 2010

Nursery Tank Fix

So I thought I was done with the nursery tank. But yesterday it started overflowing. And the school was locked up and no one was around. It overflowed so much that is flooded the floor and got to the power strip that was below the tank. Water got into the power strip, tripped the GFI outlet, and turned off the pump which stopped the leaking. So at least we didn't loose all our saltwater and the salinity didn't drop a lot (if water leaks out of the tank its replaced by freshwater through the autofill, so the salinity drops.) I watched this all unfold from my house and hour away through the pan and tilt webcam.
Today I went out there to fix this mess. I dried out the outlet strip and got that all working again. I then replaced the two 1" syphons with a 1.5" syphon. I also instead of using window screen at the end of the pipe I used the stuff people use to block leaves from getting into their gutters. This has a large hole size so more stuff gets through. I also cut the stand for the overflow box shorter so that whole box is lower relative to the tank.
My dad also built a screen for the top of the nursery tank so the fish don't get out. And I also did some repairs to the algae scrubber. I removed one layer of the mesh and repalced some zipties that were broken.

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