Rodi dumped into sump

[PegasisR]

so my tank of rodi dumped into my sump and im wondering if anything bad will happen to my sps coral? Went from .026 to .023. I've got a awc setup aswell so I think it would gradually put my salinity back into place

 

[I’ma tempermental coral]

I had a similar issue when my protein skimmer randomly decided to go nutso. Filled it’s five gallon bucket and pumped 5 gallons of ro top off water. I have an apex now to negate that issue so it doesn’t happen again lol. But to your question I had about the same drop as you and what I did was swap my top off water with fresh salt water and let it raise back up slowly. The sudden drop may irritate everyone but if you bring it up to fast that’s much more harmful. So your auto water change method seems like a similar idea and should be a good course of action. But let’s get the pro’s @ReefSquad in here for possibly a better answer

 

[PegasisR]

I had a similar issue when my protein skimmer randomly decided to go nutso. Filled it’s five gallon bucket and pumped 5 gallons of ro top off water. I have an apex now to negate that issue so it doesn’t happen again lol. But to your question I had about the same drop as you and what I did was swap my top off water with fresh salt water and let it raise back up slowly. The sudden drop may irritate everyone but if you bring it up to fast that’s much more harmful. So your auto water change method seems like a similar idea and should be a good course of action. But let’s get the pro’s @ReefSquad in here for possibly a better answer

Okay sweet I did take out the excess water from the return section and will just let the awc do its part hard thing is, is that my rodi is a gravity fed top off which comes with the red sea reefer

 

[I’ma tempermental coral]

Okay sweet I did take out the excess water from the return section and will just let the awc do its part hard thing is, is that my rodi is a gravity fed top off which comes with the red sea reefer

I’ve never trusted those personally and after what happened to me with my skimmer, even though I have my apex set up to kill the skimmer and the ato in the event of salinity decline, I still don’t run my skimmer to a collection vessel anymore! Lol.

 

[PegasisR]

I’ve never trusted those personally and after what happened to me with my skimmer, even though I have my apex set up to kill the skimmer and the ato in the event of salinity decline, I still don’t run my skimmer to a collection vessel anymore! Lol.

Well then ill hook up my spectrapure ato after this headache!

 

[I’ma tempermental coral]

Well then ill hook up my spectrapure ato after this headache!

Are you talking about running your ato directly to the sump float valve in the Red Sea sump?

 

[PegasisR]

Are you talking about running your ato directly to the sump float valve in the Red Sea sump?

Well to the spectrapures float switch, if i understood your question

 

[I’ma tempermental coral]

Well to the spectrapures float switch, if i understood your question

If that’s the case have some safety shut downs in place! Lots of info out there on Solenoids and such to hook into apex or other controllers to shut the water down if the float valve fails!!!

 

[PegasisR]

If that’s the case have some safety shut downs in place! Lots of info out there on Solenoids and such to hook into apex or other controllers to shut the water down if the float valve fails!!!

I think the most redundant, as stated by brs was to hook it to a mechanical float switch that I already have in the red sea sump

 

[I’ma tempermental coral]

I think the most redundant, as stated by brs was to hook it to a mechanical float switch that I already have in the red sea sump

As long and there is at bare minimum more than one way to automatically kill the incoming water flow from your ro you have some redundancy. I personally don’t run my rodi directly to the tank because I wouldn’t sleep at night even if I had three or four levels of redundancy hahaha. But that’s just me being a bit helicoptery lol.

 

[PegasisR]

As long and there is at bare minimum more than one way to automatically kill the incoming water flow from your ro you have some redundancy. I personally don’t run my rodi directly to the tank because I wouldn’t sleep at night even if I had three or four levels of redundancy hahaha. But that’s just me being a bit helicoptery lol.

How is yours setup?

 

[I’ma tempermental coral]

 

[I’ma tempermental coral]

How is yours setup?

I have a couple Advanced Acrylics ATO containers. And I’m running a basic ato with a float switch tied to the pump. But I’ve managed to figure out how to make my apex conductivity probe stay pretty precise and keep my control limits pretty darn tight. If my apex picks up a drop of more than .3 ppt, say from the 35 ppt I run down to 33.7 I get an alarm. If it falls any further it turns the ato off. That’s the only reason I trust the cheap ato I have though. I really need to just get a tunze though.

 

[mike550]

I have a couple Advanced Acrylics ATO containers. And I’m running a basic ato with a float switch tied to the pump. But I’ve managed to figure out how to make my apex conductivity probe stay pretty precise and keep my control limits pretty darn tight. If my apex picks up a drop of more than .3 ppt, say from the 35 ppt I run down to 33.7 I get an alarm. If it falls any further it turns the ato off. That’s the only reason I trust the cheap ato I have though. I really need to just get a tunze though.

I really like your idea of using salinity as a safety check for your ATO. I'm hoping to get a controller later this year, so I appreciate reading how people are using their controllers.

 

[PegasisR]

I have a couple Advanced Acrylics ATO containers. And I’m running a basic ato with a float switch tied to the pump. But I’ve managed to figure out how to make my apex conductivity probe stay pretty precise and keep my control limits pretty darn tight. If my apex picks up a drop of more than .3 ppt, say from the 35 ppt I run down to 33.7 I get an alarm. If it falls any further it turns the ato off. That’s the only reason I trust the cheap ato I have though. I really need to just get a tunze though.

Yeah I wish the conductivity probe was a little more better for accuracy but that’s awesome that you’ve figured the recipe for it to limit the ato off of it

 

[I’ma tempermental coral]

Yeah I wish the conductivity probe was a little more better for accuracy but that’s awesome that you’ve figured the recipe for it to limit the ato off of it

So I can’t take the credit for this because it was my husband that put 2 and 2 together on this lol. All you need is a small basic pump and some supply line slightly larger than the probe. The probe has escape holes built in so you are pumping water and any air that gets stuck out of those constantly. This won’t work if you use the Neptune calibration solution though. You have to get your tank to 35 ppt or as close to that as possible! Set your temperature compensation to your preferred mark, mine is the standard 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit. And run the manual calibration. Make sure when it’s time to do the in solution calibration step the probe end is plugged into the supply line and the pump is running. This is what mine looks like.

Hope this helps!!!

 

[robbyg]

I have mixed feelings about this solution. I think its certainly a fix and it's ingenious but I am worried about two things. The amount of flow your passing over the probe is going to probably shorten it's life and also probably send some unwanted stuff flying into the probe area that is too big to get out of the holes. The second issue is that your creating positive pressure on the seals. The probes are water proof but I am not sure it's a good idea to have water under pressure constantly running into the seals that lead to the inside of the probe.

This is just my brutally honest opinion. It may all work out to be fine but I am just letting you know the issues I would worry about.

 

[I’ma tempermental coral]

I have mixed feelings about this solution. I think its certainly a fix and it's ingenious but I am worried about two things. The amount of flow your passing over the probe is going to probably shorten it's life and also probably send some unwanted stuff flying into the probe area that is too big to get out of the holes. The second issue is that your creating positive pressure on the seals. The probes are water proof but I am not sure it's a good idea to have water under pressure constantly running into the seals that lead to the inside of the probe.

This is just my brutally honest opinion. It may all work out to be fine but I am just letting you know the issues I would worry about.

With the number of people that run these probes inline I think we would hear more issues if that was a problem. That said I will absolutely heed your opinion and keep an eye on it. Also! Yes some times stuff gets lodged in it but it isn’t all to hard to dislodge whatever gets in there. May be a good idea to run some filter foam over the inlet to mitigate that as well.