New Setup - advice on lids and filtration noise

[Jon M]

• 2 inch drain seems way big for the tank/sump. Reducing bushings and smaller drain and return lines. Are you positive that your sump can hold all the water in your lines if a power outage happens and they all drain back down to your sump?
• Look closely at the diagram TexasMFK31 posted above for you -- Durso would not be a big re-plumb job. Also notice the outlet of the drain is 1 inch below the water line in the sump.

You could get that tank to run dead silent with not too much work.

-Really? Think it should only be like 1"? I mean, I didn't drill it so that's just sorta how it was. I will say though from looking at other people's setups online I saw a lot of very similar setups with a 2" drain going to 2 1" into the top of the sump that were similar to my tank's size. I'm sure the sump can hold the water, lol. I may not be a setup wizard but I aint that foolish. ? After I set everything up I killed the power to verify the water level in the sump before I finished.

-It's definitely interesting to me. Haven't seen one like this. Is the top of the standpipe actually sealed with just a small tube coming out the center? I find it interesting the water would cope up the pipe facing down. I can see it wouldn't be a huge replumb job but I was hoping the fix would be something minor in the sump chambers, or the height of the standpipe itself. I literally just finished getting this plumbed and won't be draining the whole tank and moving fish to replumb it. I just noticed what you were pointing out. The sump outlet BELOW the sump waterline. THAT I most certainly didn't notice. But it would go against my sumps design since the outlet that comes into the top is no where near the sump water lvl since it goes threw chambers of media and a drip tray area before the water fills the next chamber.

 

[ragin_cajun]

well...you have a black overflow tower in the back right corner of the tank, and then a PVC standpipe inside that overflow tower? Water goes into the overflow, rises to the level of the PVC standpipe inside the overflow tower, and then falls down the inside of the PVC standpipe and into the sump. That's how I understand it from the pics posted.

If that's the case, and you pulled the PVC standpipe out of the bulkhead, you would only drain the water in the overflow tower. If the overflow tower is sealed and holds water in the tank.

So, you could pull the standpipe out, cut it, add a cap and downturned elbow, drill a hole and put a needle valve to precisely control the airflow into the top of the durst.

Ya wouldn't need to drain the tank to do that.

 

[Jon M]

well...you have a black overflow tower in the back right corner of the tank, and then a PVC standpipe inside that overflow tower? Water goes into the overflow, rises to the level of the PVC standpipe inside the overflow tower, and then falls down the inside of the PVC standpipe and into the sump. That's how I understand it from the pics posted.

If that's the case, and you pulled the PVC standpipe out of the bulkhead, you would only drain the water in the overflow tower. If the overflow tower is sealed and holds water in the tank.

So, you could pull the standpipe out, cut it, add a cap and downturned elbow, drill a hole and put a needle valve to precisely control the airflow into the top of the durst.

Ya wouldn't need to drain the tank to do that.

Ya. I definitely get what you are saying and agree. Except... I had a hand plumbing this from one of the guys that helped me move it. I could be totally wrong but I was under the impression he glued the standpipe where it goes into the bulkhead. Is that not a normal thing to do? Maybe he didn't but I thought I recall him saying something to that effect.

 

[ragin_cajun]

DOH! Yea, I didn't glue my standpipes--no reason to glue them. And if you're gonna glue them, then you have to be real sure you have the length right before you glue it. I only glue what I absolutely have to, and I don't glue what I don't have to.

 

[Jon M]

DOH! Yea, I didn't glue my standpipes--no reason to glue them. And if you're gonna glue them, then you have to be real sure you have the length right before you glue it. I only glue what I absolutely have to, and I don't glue what I don't have to.

Well here's the thing about that. He did account for that. At the almost top of the pipestand is a joint and he cut me 3 did lengths to plug into the joint. Now it's pretty high but does it matter where the split starts at the top of the standpipe? Cause it might be a little high but I could build the durso piece and plug it in so to speak.