Avoided midnight disaster....

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Yellow Eye Tang

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Yikes! I just went inside to watch a netflix show on my computer when I looked over and realized that my Co2 bubble counter was completely full of water. I looked carefully at it to see it had a leek in the seal and that even tho the bubbles were still going into the tank, water was slowly entering the counter bottle. It was siphoning itself out! I removed the counter bottle and now have it bubbling straight into the tank. I am curious as to how you route your tubing to avoid auto-syphon-total-disaster-type-things from happening. :D Thank goodness I caught it. Thought I'd throw this out there for everyone to consider!:uhoh:
 
An airline check valve should work.
 
Sorry.... lol

Glad you caught it before sleep. I have nightmares of draining tanks...
 
diy co2? if so you can simply put it above the tank. also remember to get a brass check valve since the co2 will eat away at the plastic.
 
MG, who sells brass check valves? All I can find are plastic ones and well my DIY CO2 is working just fine.
 
MG, who sells brass check valves? All I can find are plastic ones and well my DIY CO2 is working just fine.


Amazon.com: CO2 Brass Check Valve: Kitchen & Dining

CO2 will degrade the plastic check valves, but to me it's easier (and cheaper) to simply replace them every other fill or so. Unless you're running a calcium reactor on a reef system I don't think the risk vs. reward is there. It's soooo much slower of a degradation in a DIY or even pressurized FW application. I do agree that they are overall safer though. Just a bit of overkill IMO.
 
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