Did you have a drain pump to discharge all the tank water or you drained it to the floor drain?
Who keeps tanks in the basement?
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No pumps,the water goes down to the floor drain via syphon hoses.
The drums hold 40 percent, of the aquariums capacity. I can isolate, drain and refill, I can water change, from the basement.
They support two 75 gallons tanks, each on a closed loop, of about. 50 gpu, through the drums, they also cool the tanks about 10 degrees.
It takes 15 minutes to fill, 30 minutes to drain. So basically I just open and close valves. To do a water change.
The tank has minimal substrate, and engineered flow, with an air lift, installed in a dead spot, to lift any heavy solids, into the sump.
They support two 75 gallons tanks, each on a closed loop, of about. 50 gpu, through the drums, they also cool the tanks about 10 degrees.
It takes 15 minutes to fill, 30 minutes to drain. So basically I just open and close valves. To do a water change.
The tank has minimal substrate, and engineered flow, with an air lift, installed in a dead spot, to lift any heavy solids, into the sump.
I would love to have a big display on the main floor but my old house is not very well climate controlled during the hot months and I don't trust big tanks up on those floors.
All my tanks are in the basement as well. I use a 700gph submersible pump & hose to pump water from the tanks to the laundry tub then fill back from that faucet.
I put in 9 steel column, with a header plate, to be able to have 200 gallons in the living room. 120 year old sandstone walls.
Joe, can you post a pic of the discharge pit AND how the sink drains to the pit? I'm thinking that what you have is a sump pit that is normally used to collect the perimeter drain water around your foundation but usually a sink is not connected to this type of sump pit.
The other thing to check is if the pit water discharge is connected to the house sewage system or if it just exits the house and is dumped somewhere out in the yard or maybe to a swale or ditch near the road.
Anyway, you would want to avoid getting too much sand or gravel into the sump pit as the pump could prematurely fail though some types of these pumps can move smaller solids.
The gurgling noise you are hearing is probably just some of the discharge water running back toward the pump after it shuts off.
Interesting. so when the water goes to the floor drain where does that drain excess the water out? I thought it would be a sump pump pit?
That's power right there! Once the water drains to the laundry tub where does it go from there?
Look cool! I wouldn't trust my first floor to hold heavy tanks either unless I had your basement steel columns set up.
