HoopsGuru
In Memoriam
I've read both your BoCP and the newest Reef Invertebrates, and wow they make one want to expand their experience and systems!
I've since determined I wanted to confront all my fears of plumbing, and dive into drilling a tank and setting up a gravity fed refugium for my 55g display tank. I sweated through using a Dremel on my 16g tank (twice for two bulkheads!) and got to know the PVC aisles in HD and Lowe's quite well. I confidentally put everything together and......
Problem:eek1: ....Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles!
Here is the thread I started before realizing I would like to go right to the source of someone who has probably seen a variety of such setups. I was going to email, but perhaps a link to the thread I started here can catch you up to speed enough to potentially provide some opinions:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=428190
A quick summary of the fuge: 16g tank with a 3/4" drain and 1/2" return. It sits on its own stand above my 55g display. An elbow and strainer (pictured in the thread) set the water level and a durso mod (PVC "T" capped with a small hole in it) keeps the drain from slurping air through the fitting in the tank. A maxi-jet 900 returns water the short distance back to the 16g fuge.
The only problem is that I have a ton of bubbles coming out of the output into the display tank (and the resulting moisture and salt creep all over the place). Is there any way to bleed the air out before it gets to the output? How do people have gravity fed refugiums and avoid this problem?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
I've since determined I wanted to confront all my fears of plumbing, and dive into drilling a tank and setting up a gravity fed refugium for my 55g display tank. I sweated through using a Dremel on my 16g tank (twice for two bulkheads!) and got to know the PVC aisles in HD and Lowe's quite well. I confidentally put everything together and......
Problem:eek1: ....Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles!
Here is the thread I started before realizing I would like to go right to the source of someone who has probably seen a variety of such setups. I was going to email, but perhaps a link to the thread I started here can catch you up to speed enough to potentially provide some opinions:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=428190
A quick summary of the fuge: 16g tank with a 3/4" drain and 1/2" return. It sits on its own stand above my 55g display. An elbow and strainer (pictured in the thread) set the water level and a durso mod (PVC "T" capped with a small hole in it) keeps the drain from slurping air through the fitting in the tank. A maxi-jet 900 returns water the short distance back to the 16g fuge.
The only problem is that I have a ton of bubbles coming out of the output into the display tank (and the resulting moisture and salt creep all over the place). Is there any way to bleed the air out before it gets to the output? How do people have gravity fed refugiums and avoid this problem?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.