looks good I did the same thing. make sure you use proper bulkheade and not those DIY ones made from PVC adaptors, I used the Latter and cracked the tank when I screwed them down, I only tightened it hand tight. good luck.
Got the plumbing pretty much finished. Tank has some water in it. Guess I'm done for the night, gotta wait for the glue and paint to dry then Ill finish filling her up and hook up the return pump then I'm pretty much done!
Fired up the return pump and discovered a few things (luckily not a leak).
1. The drain is noisy
2. I had to move the return pump to the other side of the sump (the same side where it drains). There was too much flow thru the fuge the original way.
So I'm going to have to play around with the drain plumbing a bit more to get it where I want it.
figured out that the noise at the top of the drain was because of one to many holes in a pvc cap. Getting a lot of bubbles (and corresponding noise) at the sump end of the drain though.
I got rid of 99% of the bubbles in the sump thru the use of a Rube Goldberg-like set of PVC pipe bubble trap apparatii...I don't even want to post a pic...its crazy
Doing some logging of temp changes with the additional pump/lighting before I call it done. Stay tuned...
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10511885#post10511885 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by b0bby1 might have missed it, but what is your lighting system?
Ok, here's what I have going on with the temperature:
The T5's are running 11:30 am to 11:30 pm. MH ran from 3 pm to 10 pm.
I wired up a 120mm DC fan blowing down on the sump and put it on a timer to run from 11am to 11pm . I'll try to check the temps tomorrow as much as I can and see if it helps. Adding a fan really helped even out the temperture swings on my nano...hope I get the same results here.
Yeah, I just discovered that my tank was a little over ninety when my biggest acro colony started to bleach. I put a pedestal fan on the display and that took care of the problem.
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