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Comment by Miguel Afonso on November 26, 2011 at 4:17pm

ouch!!!

Comment by Rob Nash on October 28, 2011 at 6:22am

Comment by Rob Nash on September 10, 2011 at 12:21am

Live and learn. I have eliminated the return sump, and chance of this happening again. Now the water can only go back to the tank. I added air pumps as well.

Comment by Earl ward on October 27, 2011 at 12:26pm

 

Sorry Rob that sucks I agree with Jesse, try to get rid of float switch or back it up, so if it fails its not catastrophic, again sorry but I know you will over come it. I did

Comment by Jesse Hull on October 22, 2011 at 1:50pm

Duuuuude, Rob that SUCKS!

I have learned the hard way not to rely on float switches if at all possible, or at least to have a double switch system in case one goes out.  We had float switches fail at Sweet Water all the time in the filtration systems that were designed by the 1st facility manager.  At one point, a switch setup failed b/t 3 & 5am, and put 8000gallons of fish water onto the floor of the indoor farm.  Hundreds of fish were lost (initially and over the next few days) and the clean up took 5 people an entire weekend.  

One of the last things Molly & I did prior to leaving Sweet Water Organics was to redesign the filtration systems so that they didn't rely on float switches.  With a shoe-string budget, and the larger fish tanks embedded in the ground, it wasn't our ideal design (and we didn't actually get to finish building them either); however, at least there's been no problems with water overflowing, or fish dying because of that,  there since. 

 

I'm very sorry to see that this happened to you. 

Jesse

Comment by Ivy Kogan on October 22, 2011 at 1:30pm

if float switch is an issue. what is another option for this? How do you eliminate this problem?

 

Comment by Rob Nash on October 22, 2011 at 12:57pm

soil garden?   

Comment by Paul Westberg on October 22, 2011 at 6:20am

Yeah, that blows however your soil garden will really appreciate all that nutrient matter if you bury it. (lemonade from lemons?)

Comment by Jordan Erickson on October 21, 2011 at 10:40am

damn

 

Comment by Ivy Kogan on October 15, 2011 at 12:39am

damn.

Comment by matthew ferrell on September 15, 2011 at 6:53pm

done that before

 

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