Drip drain

[nzafi]

I am playing through scenarios of how I would do the plumbing of my upgraded tank. I will need to put it up against the wall which means I have to run plumbing through the bottom and not the back like I currently do. I am thinking of doing a hmf filter but want to run a drip. Initial plan is to drill the bottom and run a standpipe that would be the drip drain. My concern is whether it will be very noisy or not. Considering it will be low flow for a drip, will there be noise? I would want to run two corner hmf with drip drains behind the foam.

 

[duanes]

Beside the back or bottom, you could dril, or run overflows on a side panel.
I do this on most tanks, because I keep riverine species and like the flow to start on one end of the tank and flow across the length of it.
Make sure your bottom is not tempered if you decide to dill on the bottom.

Also when running this kind of directional flow, detritus tends to build up on the inlet side under the inflow pipe

(in a sort to plenum area created by the counter current), making vacuuming easy, all grunge collecting in one spot.

 

[Bertie07]

You could run the overflow in your sump so it would reduce noise and be easier to plumb, there might be some noise but it would only be a light prison

 

[nzafi]

You could run the overflow in your sump so it would reduce noise and be easier to plumb, there might be some noise but it would only be a light prison

I’m trying to do this without a sump which is why I’m worried about noise factor. If I did it in a sump then there would be no noise concerns.

 

[Bertie07]

Oh so you are plumbing canister filters through the bottom of the tank, well then i would say that it would be quite noisy but if it's in a stand and the canisters were running you would barely hear it

 

[nzafi]

Oh so you are plumbing canister filters through the bottom of the tank, well then i would say that it would be quite noisy but if it's in a stand and the canisters were running you would barely hear it

I would be running hmf corner filters which stay in the tank. The drain is nothing but an exit for the auto water changer. No other filtration is going to be used.

 

[Bertie07]

Ok well I think that you could build the drain with a u shape so the pipe will collect with water until it has enough to go over the u making it quieter

 

[monkeybike]

I'd just do a standpipe

 

[nzafi]

I'd just do a standpipe

That’s what I was thinking. My question is will such a low flow standpipe cause a lot of noise?

 

[monkeybike]

That’s what I was thinking. My question is will such a low flow standpipe cause a lot of noise?

You might hear the water trickling, but with a top on the tank it probably won't be very noticeable.