It's alive... ALIVE!!!!

[Delphinus]

Buh. My first failure of the sump. Sometime last night the cradle I built to hold up my skimmer fell apart (it was just some ledges siliconed to some baffles that the skimmer could sit on), so the skimmer toppled, and was sitting at a 45 degree angle all night.

I am now mopping up about 5 gals off the floor ... :mad:

I guess it's better to have these little "oops"'s now rather than in 2 or 3 weeks when I'm gone on vacation. So, in a weird sense, I have to be GLAD that I have a flood this week...

I can see that had I somehow kept my skimmer overflow in my sump itself, this would have all overflowed back into the sump. Hmmm. I guess this is why you can buy those acrylic skimmer collection cups? I see my next project coming online now (how does that saying go .. necessity is the obsession of all obsession ... no wait ... obsession is the mother of ... no ... mother of obsessions is the inventions of all frustrations .. no that's not it either . .. invention is the obsession .... spouses are frustrated with obsessions .... oh forget it!)