diy overflow
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heres my homemade filter with homemade overflow it moves 1100 gallons an hour and could move much more this also works as an awesome baby catcher after i peut all the mechanical and biological media in the filter i had 10 cherry barbs and 10zebra danios to help get the biological filter going and they bred like hell now in the first chamber of my filter is a ton of both kinds of babys some are getting big too saved them from being aro food i guess
OK I'm in love with this overflow. So simple and effective!
A few questions, what size PVC piping do you need for a 6x2x2 (180g) overflow? And would one drain be sufficient for a 180g?
The sump is about 3x1.5x1 and the pump is rated at 4500LPH (about 1180gph)
A few questions, what size PVC piping do you need for a 6x2x2 (180g) overflow? And would one drain be sufficient for a 180g?
The sump is about 3x1.5x1 and the pump is rated at 4500LPH (about 1180gph)
I know it works for with 1" pipe, and I've heard its less effective with anything larger than 1 1/4" pipe. You can flow over 600 gph with the 1", so I would build 2 of them. It should only cost about 25 bucks to build both of them.Hasi said:
I read that aswell at the 3reef link, great informing read!rallysman said:
Too bad i wasn't smart enough to know to just build two of them when i read that they can flow 600gph and i need about 1200gph
Thanks Rallysman for the pointer
I showed that pic in my lokal forum, and one guy buildt a similar one.
He also added a one-way valve (dont know is that the correct word for it)
so it dont lose its prime.
He also added a one-way valve (dont know is that the correct word for it)
so it dont lose its prime.
