Camshafts' new project. "The growout"

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I already figured out how to make it 100% silent. Remember that overflow I was making? It is set up and in operation. It is so quiet that I sometimes freak out thinking that it stopped working. Use the same principles that I used on my overflow.
 
I was thinking your valves and the smaller plumbing were reversed. My idea won't work without going nuts cutting plumbing. I have another way to do the same thing. You just have to have the adjustment valves in the tank. You'll need two inch and a half valves for the stand pipes. The smaller pipes will be the secondary overflows. They should be left unvalved. The main pipes should be slightly shorter and then tuned down until the smaller pipes receive just a trickle of flow.
 
By the way, if you need my pipe cutters just let me know. Something tells me you are ready for my table saw too. :grinyes:
 
Camshaft Ramrod;2818022; said:
Wow..... This is one powerful pump.......Even after bypassing into the sock and the ball valve ...

And it sounds like I have a freakin' water fall running through my fish room. I need to remedy this lol..

I'm not sure of how to take care of the tube sucking sound. If it were an overflow box, I would use a dorso. Not sure if I could do something like that here.
The water volume flowing through the pipes it is fairly large.
I need to silence it without constricting the water flow. Anyone have any ideas? You can see what I have set up in pic #3/post#126.


The rest of the noise is caused from the water rushing through the the sump. I think I can take care of that a bit.
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Just cut the pipe down a little and put a reducer on it. Not a reduce from that pipe (1.25 inches?) but a reducer from the size up. Lets say that is a 1 inch pipe, get a 2 inch to 1 inch reducing fitting and add it on top. Solved my noise, just do not have too much surface agitaton near it.
 
wow_it_esploded;2823346; said:
Just cut the pipe down a little and put a reducer on it. Not a reduce from that pipe (1.25 inches?) but a reducer from the size up. Lets say that is a 1 inch pipe, get a 2 inch to 1 inch reducing fitting and add it on top. Solved my noise, just do not have too much surface agitaton near it.
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I thought about that, but I'd always be freaking out something would get sucked into the tube and then clog it due to it's constriction. Then my tank overflows.

I'm going with Dorso tops. It's not pretty, but the sound is almost gone.
 
Here are the Dorso tops. I will be making two for the smaller drains to the left also. And I'm not worried about the look. This setup was made specifically for functionality, not to be purty.
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Made the cover for the left side of the sump.
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Did the cover to the right side also. I added a 90 degree to the sock too.
It will cause the water to come out into the side of the sock rather than splash strait down. Less noise.
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And both covers are easily removed.
 
Functionality is beauty in itself :drool:
 
Yup, it's up and running.
Each cube has one faded zz malau flowerhorn and one plant. The water quality is perfect, but their color has washed out pretty bad. I think it's from the 360 degree lack of background...

I think I might build black backgrounds out of acrylic. Ones that I can slip over the middle wall. We'll see. I'm still trying to figure it out.

I just recently made a new vid. You can see it towards the end.


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