Small Sump Problem
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Ok looking at the photos from his link
it looks like the way water gets from tank to sump is through siphoning/gravity? So he's trying to match the water siphon rate with a pump and is unable to fine tune with the ball valve. You should make it alot easier on yourself and either make or buy an overflow box. The following image is not mine, it's just something I found on the net.
Water flows from tank -> box1 (inside tank) -> siphoned through "U tube" to box2 (outside of tank) -> sump (below tank). Then all you need to do is find the correct water level to run this with no problem.
it looks like the way water gets from tank to sump is through siphoning/gravity? So he's trying to match the water siphon rate with a pump and is unable to fine tune with the ball valve. You should make it alot easier on yourself and either make or buy an overflow box. The following image is not mine, it's just something I found on the net.
Water flows from tank -> box1 (inside tank) -> siphoned through "U tube" to box2 (outside of tank) -> sump (below tank). Then all you need to do is find the correct water level to run this with no problem.
If your overflow is based on a siphon, I see a wet floor and a burned out pump in your future!
You will NEVER get the inflow and outflows to match up with that method and disaster is a certainty.
If you don't want to purchase a standard overflow, you can go about things another direction. Put the pump in the tank, put the bucket over the tank, pump the water into the bucket, and let the bucket drain into the tank.
You will NEVER get the inflow and outflows to match up with that method and disaster is a certainty.
If you don't want to purchase a standard overflow, you can go about things another direction. Put the pump in the tank, put the bucket over the tank, pump the water into the bucket, and let the bucket drain into the tank.
http://glass-holes.com/product.sc?categoryId=3&productId=5
check out the vid and you'll see how a gravity overflow works...
check out the vid and you'll see how a gravity overflow works...
Only problem with that type of system is the sand in the bottom of the tank...sand and pump shafts last as long as a dry floor in his current set-up...cchhcc;2555318; said:
I'm getting really confused. I will just post some better pics and then you guys tell me what I should do.
cchhcc;2555318; said:
If my pump stops then the water drains into my sump causing the aquarium water to drop below the suction, that means that the suction will stop and my sump doesn't overflow.
Golden Pygo;2556847; said:
and what happens when the pump turns back on without you there to restart the syphon?
