How loud is the overflow on a Red Sea reefer 170

[cnunez3024]

I just put water and set everything up I feel the overflow is super loud and sounds like a constant running toilet .... Is this normal ? Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Brieninsac]

It takes very fine adjustments. Keep at it, eventually you'll get it dialed in.

 

[rovster]

I don't know much about that particular tank but noisy overflows is just a matter of physics. If it sounds like a flushing toilet most likely your drains are just emptying the overflow box too quickly. You can try a few things:

Put a gate valve on the drain and tune

Throttle back your return

Increase height of drain pipe

 

[Pmj]

I don't know much about that particular tank but noisy overflows is just a matter of physics. If it sounds like a flushing toilet most likely your drains are just emptying the overflow box too quickly. You can try a few things:

Put a gate valve on the drain and tune

Throttle back your return

Increase height of drain pipe

Listen to this guy, helped me out with the same thing!

 

[serkel]

On the Red Sea you should have a dial that is located in the cabinet. Play with the dial and do very minimum adjustments. I've set up a few Red seas and they are very silent.

 

[cnunez3024]

awesome thank you guys so much played with the dial and got it pretty silent all i hear is the return pump now.. but nothing i can do about that

 

[ScuderiaDavis]

I have a 90 gallon RR with a built in overflow and a durso standpipe. besides dialing the pump to flow around 300gph, I cut a three foot long 1 inch wide strand of filter media and put it down into the standpipe and hold it in place with the durso cap. Viola, ZERO water noise!

 

[rovster]

I have a 90 gallon RR with a built in overflow and a durso standpipe. besides dialing the pump to flow around 300gph, I cut a three foot long 1 inch wide strand of filter media and put it down into the standpipe and hold it in place with the durso cap. Viola, ZERO water noise!

That's dangerous unless you have an emergency drain. If you have to do that, there's probably something simpler and safer you can do to help with noise. Just sayin'.......:spin3:

 

[ScuderiaDavis]

That's dangerous unless you have an emergency drain. If you have to do that, there's probably something simpler and safer you can do to help with noise. Just sayin'.......:spin3:

Actually, it's perfectly safe since the only remote risk is water from the return pump sending water faster than the Durso can drain. As long as there is more free tank volume between the overflow edge and the tank edge than there is in the sump between the water level and the pump input, all you risk is the return pump going dry.

I did the math using all that math I said I would never use back in middle school lol

I've been doing this for over 4 months and not one single problem. The thin strip of filter media simply acts as a cushion to the falling water.

And it's dead silent now

 

[fltekdiver]

And what happens when that pipe clogs with a small or something, have you caculated how much water your going to pump over the sides of the tank into the floor

 

[ScuderiaDavis]

And what happens when that pipe clogs with a small or something, have you caculated how much water your going to pump over the sides of the tank into the floor

Yes, that is what I was describing above.

Volume of space between overflow pipe and the lip of the tank should be greater than the volume of water from the sump water level to the return pump input.

Calculated it to the exact amount

 

[fltekdiver]

Wow, that must be a small sump

I have a reefer 250, the sump runs at 11 gallons
I have 5 gallons of volume between my overflow and the rim of my tank

 

[ScuderiaDavis]

Wow, that must be a small sump

I have a reefer 250, the sump runs at 11 gallons
I have 5 gallons of volume between my overflow and the rim of my tank

It's a Eschopps 150 Wet/Dry. 24x12x16. BARELY enough room for a skimmer and a return pump in the chamber, so yeah, it is small.

I run the water level in the sump at 8 inches for my skimmer, and I have the pump up on a pedestal so there is about 2.5 inches of water at the pump input.

 

[McGee10]

It's a Eschopps 150 Wet/Dry. 24x12x16. BARELY enough room for a skimmer and a return pump in the chamber, so yeah, it is small.

I run the water level in the sump at 8 inches for my skimmer, and I have the pump up on a pedestal so there is about 2.5 inches of water at the pump input.

And no top off / ATO right?

 

[ScuderiaDavis]

And no top off / ATO right?

No, none of those