450 gallon disappointment lol
- Thread starter Psylant
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I was talking about the plumbing in your overflows,etc. I would redo those bulkheads in your overflow so they aren't glued. Bulkheads don't last forever and when it starts leaking you won't have to go to all the trouble of cutting it out and replacing everything while the tank is full of fish. Make it so the pipe screws into the bulkhead so all you have to do is unscrew the pipe and then unscrew replace the bulkhead and then hook the pipe back up again. Try and make it so where ever there is a bulkhead that you will be able to just unscrew things to replace the bulkhead. If it's glued then you need to replace a whole wack of things.
It looks like your overflow box is contained in your tank so I just wrote all the above for nothing! LOL. Mine are outside overflow boxes on the sides. Your water will just leak back into your tank but if you have any outside bulkheads just make sure they can easily be changed.
I don't think that will work since the brass parts don't come apart where it is leaking. I think I might need to double up on washers.
D-day has arrived. I'm filling the last 50 or so gallons of the tank/sump and going to try the pump to see how bad, if any spray there is. I used a bunch of teflon to try to seal the leaks and got it down to about 3 drips a minute. Good enough I hope.
I'm happy to report that after 10 minutes of operation it appears to be finally perfect. I even tuned it so it's relatively quiet (might get better still too!). I think I will make some elbows in my standpipes so that I can get them around the other plumbing above them to make less distance for the water to fall into the overflow. That seems to be the noisiest part, but it's tolerable as is! I haven't been this happy in a long, long time.
The tank is nearly silent now. There's a slight sound of gentle water falling from the overflow but it's pretty darn good now. Way quieter than my 180g tank with an FX5 and 2 AC110s.
I've rinsed 150 lbs of pool filter sand and put it in the tank. I'll likely use the sand from my 180g when I transfer the fish from there as well. I think I may need to implement a finer mechanical filtration somehow. The 200 micron socks aren't picking up much of the sand "dust". I have tons of filter floss, I'm still trying to figure out the best way to use it though.
I've rinsed 150 lbs of pool filter sand and put it in the tank. I'll likely use the sand from my 180g when I transfer the fish from there as well. I think I may need to implement a finer mechanical filtration somehow. The 200 micron socks aren't picking up much of the sand "dust". I have tons of filter floss, I'm still trying to figure out the best way to use it though.
Does anyone use a knife valve for throttling their standpipes to make them quiet? I had this weird vibrating/squeaking noise coming from mine when I had it throttled back. It took me forever to find out what was making the noise. It wasn't very loud but it was irritating. I'm going to try to 180 degree flip the valve when I get home and see if that fixes it. Anyone else have another suggestion?
Well I put my guinea pig fish in to see if they would survive. It appears everything is well. They've been in there for a few hours and racing around like crazy. I will probably add the loaches tomorrow if everything is still going well. I will add the bruisers all next weekend, and probably transfer my DIY LEDs over as well as the sand in that tank and all the décor.
