how do I silence my overflow??

[rustyreef]

I am one of those poor souls who lives in a small apartment with a reef tank. As it stands now, I can hear the sucking from my external overflow box and the gushing of water into the sump from just about everywhere in my apartment (including my bed). I have looked into several methods for quieting these down, and I was wondering if anyone had tried these before.
http://home.nc.rr.com/stockmanreef/interest.htm
This link shows a DIY standpipe design. Does anyone know how much flow this blocks?
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=68525&papass=&sort=1&thecat=998
This is a design for a sump silencer, but I'm not sure it would work. Any thoughts?

 

[30mini]

Plenty of people have done the stockman stand pipe before. It works well to quiet it down. Also look for the durso set up.

 

[MJAnderson]

durso works for me. very slight noise. can't hear from more than 3' away. My skimmer is louder.

 

[rustyreef]

how about the flow though? Is it going to cut down on my overflow's capacity?

 

[30mini]

No, not at all, as long as you keep the pipes the same it will have no effect (or is affect?) at all

 

[Coyle]

a potato?...just kidding, i have used the durso with no problems.

 

[outy]

youll get more flow with a stockman or a durso

my water level gets higher in the overflow if i take the durso out for cleaning the only tricky part is making sure your air hole is not to big