Is there anybody out there that is also using the reef octopus overflow box?
As we do not have a hole drilled in our tank, we have been using (up to yesterday), a siliconed glass corner in the DT with a pump, (like an overflow, so if one fails the tank will not empty onto the floors) pumping water to the sump and a return pump, pumping back to DT.
but after some thoughts and worries that something might happen, i bought a overflow box. so we installed it yesterday, it was working fine for 10 hours and then this morning when we woke, the floor was flooded (luckily only until the 3rd chamber in my sump was empty, as the design prevents it from running dry) and my return pump is also a dry pump.
Anycase we did some fine tuning today, it was working like a dream from 7 till 7.
Whilst sipping my wine next to the braaivleis vuur, i suddenly noticed a stream of water passing me. Yes so it happened again.
The syphon just stopped (AGAIN), and we can't determine the reason. the water levels are fine, auto-topup is working. we fixed it and needless to say 20 minutes ago it happenend again.
So just for the sake of getting some sleep tonight, we'll connect the overflow pump in the glass corner again.
But at the moment my feeling is that the overflow box is very unreliable. Any advice is appreciated, and also maybe some comments from someone using an external overflow box
As we do not have a hole drilled in our tank, we have been using (up to yesterday), a siliconed glass corner in the DT with a pump, (like an overflow, so if one fails the tank will not empty onto the floors) pumping water to the sump and a return pump, pumping back to DT.
but after some thoughts and worries that something might happen, i bought a overflow box. so we installed it yesterday, it was working fine for 10 hours and then this morning when we woke, the floor was flooded (luckily only until the 3rd chamber in my sump was empty, as the design prevents it from running dry) and my return pump is also a dry pump.
Anycase we did some fine tuning today, it was working like a dream from 7 till 7.
Whilst sipping my wine next to the braaivleis vuur, i suddenly noticed a stream of water passing me. Yes so it happened again.
The syphon just stopped (AGAIN), and we can't determine the reason. the water levels are fine, auto-topup is working. we fixed it and needless to say 20 minutes ago it happenend again.
So just for the sake of getting some sleep tonight, we'll connect the overflow pump in the glass corner again.
But at the moment my feeling is that the overflow box is very unreliable. Any advice is appreciated, and also maybe some comments from someone using an external overflow box