Well That's Why I made the manifold in case I have to add anything in the future. If I need it I definitely will add a second pump but this is only for filtration not water movement. It would be an external one if I added any. So that wont be to bad to plum in especially now that I know about the flex hose that I can use now. I agree I am on the low side but I am that person that has the touch the stove to see if it's hot, even if everyone is telling me it is. I purchased all this stuff when I was originally getting a 240-300 gallon tank, But when my wife told me I could go bigger it was on like Donkey Kong lol. I think I could just go up to 1 inch or 1 1/4 pipe and keep one pump. Leave in a 140 watt light bulb on 24/7 gets a little pricey If I could get away with 140 instead of 280 that's money in my pocket, once you add the heaters lights other pumps it gets up there it will cost me just about $20 a month just for that one pump. I live in ct and the Electric rate is very high.
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Your right but you did not know I am on a well, And I am debating on whether to try and do a drip water change set up, also I will have a huge Algae scrubber I'm making it out of a 20 gallon acrylic fish tank and I am making A mass of DE nitrification filter with a 8 inch pvc pipe. To help combat the nitrates But there is so much anecdotal evidence with this hobby you just have to try. I had a 55 gallon that I had a do water changes every 2 weeks on I put the marine pure in and My water changes went to 6 weeks or more. I am not rushing I had this tank in my house for over 3 month and I ordered it like September last year. If I did not have the C2C or all the bio media I would maybe consider change it now. But I rather see what happening because it would not be hard for me to plum another pump in maybe 1 1/2 -2 hours that's why I used unions and the manifold.
I am also on a well and am so grateful for it. Water changes are so simple since I plumbed a spigot and drain next to my tank and drilled my sump.
Here is my procedure:
Open valve
Wait as long as wife allows
Close valve
Every tank set-up no matter how similar, is different. Sometimes part of the fun is trial and error and first hands experience. I can appreciate that. Even with the C2C, you shouldn't have any issues if you ended up wanting to use an external pump for increased water turnover. That does make sense though that what you originally had was designated for a smaller tank.
Ok here is some more progress, got the water in, lights up( still need to run an Electrical Box up to the ceiling so I can plug them in and not have cords hanging down, and I put so of my Biological media in. I still have a A decent amount of dry rock left so I'm probably gonna throw some pieces of that in the sump to. Just set up my wireless heating controller. Now I have to mess around with the height of the overflow pipes because I want the water a close to the top as i can get it
Having got an answer figured I ask it in this post.
This is my 1st time dealing with at sump and I want my water height close to the top of the tank about 1/2 inch. so I close off my main drain to raise the water but when I do that my pump section goes to low, I cant add more water because the sump will over flow when the power is cut and I move the over flow pipes as close to the top of the box and still get a good quiet siphon. I've included pictures of my some in my drain setup I am running a bean animal.
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This is my 1st time dealing with at sump and I want my water height close to the top of the tank about 1/2 inch. so I close off my main drain to raise the water but when I do that my pump section goes to low, I cant add more water because the sump will over flow when the power is cut and I move the over flow pipes as close to the top of the box and still get a good quiet siphon. I've included pictures of my some in my drain setup I am running a bean animal.
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Having got an answer figured I ask it in this post.
This is my 1st time dealing with at sump and I want my water height close to the top of the tank about 1/2 inch. so I close off my main drain to raise the water but when I do that my pump section goes to low, I cant add more water because the sump will over flow when the power is cut and I move the over flow pipes as close to the top of the box and still get a good quiet siphon. I've included pictures of my some in my drain setup I am running a bean animal.
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Need bigger sump or another sump to hold the water. It might help to put an angle on the pump intake and face it down, so the pump is drawing from the lowest level possible in the sump. Put all your heaters down low as well.
How many overflows do you have? Does the box have a cover? If it has a cover you can cut a hole and increase the height an inch or so. That won’t increase the noise.
