Is your sump/overflow LOUD? THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!

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jcardona1;4786979; said:
Yeah that is an interesting approach. I wonder though, can you close the valve enough so that the water level almost touches the overflow teeth? I like to keep the water level in the overflow box really high to avoid the sound of falling water...
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ill go see if I can find the discussion, but i dont see why not. they were basically adjusting the gate so the water moved up within 2-3 inches of the top of the box. Same thing youre doing, just without the standpipe. they say it actually makes it more quiet. Ill dig and see if I can find the actual discussion.....
 
Jc1119;4787352;4787352 said:
Even if it is more quiet, wouldn't that mean alot more water in the sump when the pump was off? The standpipe would keep more water in the tank right?
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Yup! When the power goes off, the overflow box stays full of water due to the standpipe. Without the standpipe and a bare bulkhead only, all that water will go down to the sump. If you have a big enough sump this really isnt a concern, but it is something to think about. I guess you could even do a small standpipe, once that is about half the length of the overflox box...
 
jcardona1;4787367; said:
Yup! When the power goes off, the overflow box stays full of water due to the standpipe. Without the standpipe and a bare bulkhead only, all that water will go down to the sump. If you have a big enough sump this really isnt a concern, but it is something to think about. I guess you could even do a small standpipe, once that is about half the length of the overflox box...
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Seems pretty quiet with the standpipe so I'll probably go that route anyways. The more water I can keep in the tank the better...
 
On my 270 gallon tank with a 300 gallon wet dry. I have 5 predrilled holes. I have two drain line and and 2 return lines. I cap off one holes. I have ball vales on the two drain lines and one on the return line. I have them slightly close off on the drain lines to let the water level rise about two inch above the overflow box. I have no gurgle. Only noise I have is the vibrating noise coming from mag 24 pump. I think have too many 90 degree elbows in my return.
 
tanboy561;5099333; said:
On my 270 gallon tank with a 300 gallon wet dry. I have 5 predrilled holes. I have two drain line and and 2 return lines. I cap off one holes. I have ball vales on the two drain lines and one on the return line. I have them slightly close off on the drain lines to let the water level rise about two inch above the overflow box. I have no gurgle. Only noise I have is the vibrating noise coming from mag 24 pump. I think have too many 90 degree elbows in my return.
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Try putting a 2 inch layer of coarse filter foam under the pump. Should improve the vibration problem.

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I <3 my durso... SO simple and SO quiet...

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Granted I'm only running a 75g + ~10g sump... I want to try the Bean when I go bigger!
 
Gurgle doesn't even describe the noise coming from my 500g when I first fired it up. There was no thought into my plumbing other than getting it to flow 5000gph and there was no way t hold a conversation anywhere in the basement. Luckily I got it all quieted down using other methods and is better, but nowhere near silentbut I didn't expect it would be
 
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