salt creep ??????

How can I control salt creep on and around my sump/refug?? Its mostly on the end that my ev-120 skimmer is. My tank is new and I am in the cycling stage of the game, so nothing live but a couple of LR to seed my non-LR. Its kinda wet all on the skimmer, the outside rim of the tank and on the plumping. New to this problem. Thanks

 

Prevent bubbles from breaking on the surface and you will greatly reduce salt creep.

 

How do I stop the bubbles from breaking on the surface???

 

You need to essentially add a vent to your pipe that is going into the sump. Use a Tee connection and have one side going straight down into the sump. The other side should point straight up. Use the largest size pipe you can. This way the current is reduced in the pipe and the bubbles can rise up through the pipe easier against the flow. Make the pipe going straight down into the sump as long as possible.

Disclaimer: I have not implemented this approach yet in my own system. I currently just have a small piece of airline tubing at an elbow and it helps quite a bit. This will be my next upgrade.

 

I have a 90 gal. with a corner drilled overflow with the Allglass over flow system. It has vents in the top already.

 

i use a filter sock on my returns from the equipment and return lines from the dt and let it float on the surface air leaks out the top and water runs out the bottom cut my bubbles and salt creep down 75%.

 

I'm not familiar with that but the vent I'm talking about is in the sump not in the overflow.