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Old 08-20-2011, 05:29 AM
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Originally Posted by cwatkins View Post
I use an old salt bucket as my new fresh water reservoir, so it only holds about 5 gallons of water. And the sump for sure has at least 5 gallons of additional capacity, so there's no way to overflow the system
This is what I do too. Redundancy avoids wet floors. I use the Tunze ATOs too.

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unless the drain on the tank gets plugged and the water pumped up to the tank overflows.
This is one of many reasons why I use a Herbie style overflow. Two drains. More redundancy.
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