+BobcatReefer Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 What's the littlest or cheapest break/failure that has caused the biggest pain in your ares or most expensive fix? Friday afternoon, I caught a glimpse of some standing water on the backside of my tank. Found a tiny leak coming from my HOB. After uncoupling the box from the plumbing, the bulkhead leaving the bottom of the box was broken - my guess is from me wiggling the standpipe back and forth to get it out every now and then. This is probably a $3 part, if I can find one (have an email in to Eshopps, so hopefully I hear back on Monday morning). If not, it's an $80 replacement, plus another $20+ in plumbing. And more like $150 total if I upgraded to what I really should have on there and plumbed it up correctly. But the price really isn't the biggest pita: The other overflow can't handle the flow on it's own, even w/ my return pump cranked down as far as possible. That means I have to manually go over to the tank and plug in my return to get display>sump flow going, watch/wait for the water to come up to the display rim, and then unplug the return. Rinse/repeat. There have to be some that will beat that, and misery loves company, so please trump my broken $3 part! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 I left the flush valve open on my RO/DI allowing 84 TDS water into my system for months. Lost over $500 in corals and gonis. Part didn't even cost me $3... Just required me to turn the knob back to close. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sascha D. Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 A few years ago I began to see a decline in the aquarium and increased water changes to correct the problem. I checked the TDS meter on my RODI unit and it read 0 ppm, so I thought it was safe. I lost 99% of my livestock over 6-8 months and in the end found out that the TDS meter was somehow stuck on 0 or not working. The few corals that survived had to be chopped down to frags again. A $5.99 part cost me nearly all of my livestock and three years of growth. Complacency can cost a lot... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reburn Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 OH heck yea can I jump on the "bad topoff water is 90% of people problems" podium........ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BobcatReefer Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 On 9/9/2018 at 11:36 AM, BobcatReefer said: This is probably a $3 part $7 part, $3 for shipping. So now I wait and manually move water... My poor fuge is just sitting there stagnant (this was the overflow feeding the fuge). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Dogfish Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 Not a failure of equipment but of brain power. This one is besides the many ones of leaving something on that overflows and floods the floor. I spent a good part of an hour trying to figure out why a new EB8 would not show up on my Apex. Come to find out, Apex pre labels the outlets with names. It was there the whole time, I just didnt notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckyuv Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 I put a cheap plastic splitter on the water hookup behind the washer to T my ro/di to the faucet. The thing broke off one day while I was at work and led to a $19k remodel of the flooded downstairs 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christyef Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 1 hour ago, ckyuv said: I put a cheap plastic splitter on the water hookup behind the washer to T my ro/di to the faucet. The thing broke off one day while I was at work and led to a $19k remodel of the flooded downstairs holy mackerel!!!! So sorry to hear that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BobcatReefer Posted September 16, 2018 Author Share Posted September 16, 2018 Yeah, I think that's going to be a winner folks. 😲 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhart032 Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 On 9/15/2018 at 3:13 PM, Christyef said: On 9/15/2018 at 2:02 PM, ckyuv said: I put a cheap plastic splitter on the water hookup behind the washer to T my ro/di to the faucet. The thing broke off one day while I was at work and led to a $19k remodel of the flooded downstairs This happen to me, it was alum and after a while couldn't handle the pressure, water was running out the front door. good thing i had tile in the entire downstairs. wow it was bad. i blamed it on the toilet fill line insurance took care of it, but not really much damage believe it or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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