1 inch bulkhead!

[Tim Marvin]

OK guys as I have been preaching, run from the 1 inch bulkheads. I have a 1 inch bulkhead in a 30 gallon refugium in the garage. I just spent the last couple hours cleaning water off the floor and bringing salinity back up to 1.020 from 1.014. The rest I'll have to bring up gradually over the next few days if I don't lose stuff from osmotic shock. This system typically runs at 1.030. The culprit, one black turbo snail! If you like being married DO NOT put a 1 inch bulkhead in any tank in the house. Lucky for me I'm the only one home and it is in the garage. :-D

[TAXMAN]

Ok. just so I know what I have. The 1" Bulkhead will take a 1"id tubeing. Correct? And is it the black ones with the foam type seals? If so I have several on my tank. Or is the hole that is drilled for them 1"?

And sorry to hear about the tank Tim. I hope you can save everything.

[JimD]

uhh, that blows. Thats why I dont use them.

[kaiser]

You know they make screens for those, so that a snail won't block the hole. Don't mean to be a smartass.

[TAXMAN]

OHHH. So is this the leaving Buklhead on the tank. So the snail got into it and pluged it? I thought you meant the part itself sprung a leak. If this is so, I feel better now. Snails cant get to mine.

[Tim Marvin]

It has a one inch inner diameter. Screens work fine for snails, however in a refugium they work even better on caulerpa. Catch 22 clog it with caulerpa and have a flood or clog it with a snail and have a flood. I will figure something out to stop this from happening again. Snails happen a lot less often, but in the house it would be a disaster. I didn't even realize the little bugger was in there. It could have been a hermit also. All I know for sure is I took out a black turbo shell.
No offense taken Kaiser, in fact you have me thinking again........... :shock:

[Tim Marvin]

Also Kaiser, this is an old ancient grey one that I have not been able to find a screen that will fit it. Light grating should do the trick though if I make a box over it. Then the caulerpa shouldn't clog it too fast either. Thanks!

[matt]

I was gonna say, this sounds like a job for eggcrate. In fact, I'm going to put some on the input for my durso. John Moffet also puts screens on outputs; i guess he's had snails crawl against the flow into bulkheads. That's determination on the snail's part.

[witecap4u]

I've got dual 1"'s goin out of the tank, and a single 1" leaving the refug/sump, but if that one did get clogged, I have enough extra sump area to hold all the water that will still overflow....One of these days im going to put a screen on that one though, as I've already lost one fish to the pump that way.

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