Re-configuring My Sumps with Poret Foam

[Ulu]

Thanks for not laughing. I cobbled that overflow together from leftovers and it hides in my office. That blue spa hose was a real mistake. It collects snails and goo. The glue weakens it. Same with the vinyl airline, too unreliable. I cut that loose and added an ABS nipple for the bleed tube.

 

[jaws7777]

Thanks for not laughing. I cobbled that overflow together from leftovers and it hides in my office. That blue spa hose was a real mistake. It collects snails and goo. The glue weakens it. Same with the vinyl airline, too unreliable. I cut that loose and added an ABS nipple for the bleed tube.

Why laugh ! Those are some great diy skills.

 

[Ulu]

Thank you.

I really don't consider this my best work, but I do consider that it was designed only to be temporary, and that I built it all on the Fly out of inexpensive stuff, a lot of which I already had in my junk pile, as an experiment.

 

[LBDave]

I think the stuff you do is a trip. Seems you are always into something.

 

[Ulu]

A lot of it is self-inflicted. I had to reconfigure that overflow because the weir just could not admit enough water and it was sucking bubbles all the time.

I had to fix the one on my mono tank as it was sucking up Guppies. I retrieved at least four guppies from my sump. The poor things went through a 3/4 ball valve and were dashed against lava rock.
As you can see a guppy has already made his way in it.


This shows the new Cory tank drain, sort of at half-mast, as I am changing the water.

 

[Ulu]

Little Heidi's a female betta & one of my favorite fish. I could never get her to breed but she is so tame I can reach in the tank and pick her up in my hand and put her in another tank.

Last night I was talking on the phone and watching her in my tank when I realized that she was pointing in the wrong direction. My overflow siphon had stopped and the water was not now moving the normal way. As I watched the tank filled up to the top. I had to get up from my chair and start the siphon again.

I'm not sure what happened because there don't seem to be any air bubbles getting sucked into my siphon. There must be a very tiny air leak in the construction because it ran for almost an entire day before it lost vacuum.