Small update.
I was dealing with phos. over 1.00 cause of the used sand that I used. Apparently, I didn't clean it good enough. I have since removed the sand and got the Phos down too .11. I am using GFO to bring it down more. Once I get it down to about .03, I will buy and add new sand (which I should have done in the first place). I'm sure my corals will stay brown untill I bring the phos down.<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
So after having my skimmer flood my floor with 40 gallons of water, I decided to mod it with a float switch. The way I have my skimmer in the sump, the skimmer cup overlaps the sump about an inch. One day my skimmer out of the blue, decided to overflow. While it was overflowing, most of the water from the skimmer cup was spilling out of the sump
where the skimmer cup overlaps the sump. As this is happening, my ATO kicks on which is connected to a 55 gallon drum filled with RO/DI water. Luckily I had enough water in the drum or else the sump, would had went dry. Well, it took that incident for me to take action.
This is a very simple mod and should not take long to do, if you decide to do it. It is not proffesional looking as you see on other skimmers. I just put this together with the least amount of $$$. Here is how I did it.
The items that I used. ATO, Plastic pen, Electric wire, Wire clips and interlocking connectors.
This is the cap of the collection cup. I was lucky the it already had holes. You can easily drill one if yours does not have any.
I cut a piece of the pen. This will be used to route the wire through. Make sure that it is plastic.
I made four cuts on it and bend the cuts back to make it look like helicopter blades.
This is why the pen needs to be plastic.
Insert it in the hole and glue.
I cut the float from the ATO and marked one of the wires.
Pass the wires attached to the float, through the glued piece of plastic on the collection cup cap and glue.
This is what it should look like all glued.
