Fact: Pumps break before or when you’re in vacation!.
This just happened to me, as I turned off the main pump in one of my tanks to feed frozen, well, the pump also wanted to stay frozen, didn’t woke up after 15 mins delay for feeding, (Mag 7) I can even say that I have a hate mind of it, they’re noisy, but sometimes and not many, reliable. Was doing the on/off feeding time every other day and have to kill pumps (skimmer and return) and turn off the ATO while feeding, everything like most of us do.
Thanks that I’ve another pump that I purchased from a friend (thanks Scott!) and a bin full of pvc parts and different size hoses I was able to swap the pump, just cut the PVC coupler and use the barb from this pump, reef octopus controllable pump, installed a plastic clamp, check for sump level and adjust the flow for reactor, UV and chiller, back in business. This pump is awesome, I was living under a rock, variable speed, feeding delay and I can’t even hear any noise of it. Had a vectra L that I’ve sold previously and never used, so it was more time for me to keep me blind.
This could have been a disaster to me, going on a short holiday vacation and I couldn’t imagine what it could have happened. Get extra pumps, I even have large external pumps here waiting for me to run a larger tank but wouldn’t be able to keep the tank running if I hadn’t had an extra internal pump.
This just happened to me, as I turned off the main pump in one of my tanks to feed frozen, well, the pump also wanted to stay frozen, didn’t woke up after 15 mins delay for feeding, (Mag 7) I can even say that I have a hate mind of it, they’re noisy, but sometimes and not many, reliable. Was doing the on/off feeding time every other day and have to kill pumps (skimmer and return) and turn off the ATO while feeding, everything like most of us do.
Thanks that I’ve another pump that I purchased from a friend (thanks Scott!) and a bin full of pvc parts and different size hoses I was able to swap the pump, just cut the PVC coupler and use the barb from this pump, reef octopus controllable pump, installed a plastic clamp, check for sump level and adjust the flow for reactor, UV and chiller, back in business. This pump is awesome, I was living under a rock, variable speed, feeding delay and I can’t even hear any noise of it. Had a vectra L that I’ve sold previously and never used, so it was more time for me to keep me blind.
This could have been a disaster to me, going on a short holiday vacation and I couldn’t imagine what it could have happened. Get extra pumps, I even have large external pumps here waiting for me to run a larger tank but wouldn’t be able to keep the tank running if I hadn’t had an extra internal pump.
