Is my plumbing ok?

[Bosco83]

Ok I'll try that back to Home Depot lol. You know what's the worst Home Depot is 35 minutes away I live in the sticks.

Brian

 

[Brwestern]

Never ever ever restrict your overflow lines. If you need to restrict flow to quiet it down do so on the return line, never the overflow. Did I say never enough? Really though it's a recipe for disaster once that baby gets clogged.

Herbie and bean animal disagree with you.

But I see what you're saying.

 

[Bosco83]

Herbie and bean animal disagree with you.

But I see what you're saying.

Yea I wasn't that concerned about the valve on the drain both my other tanks have it that way and I have never had a problem the last three years. I'm just trying to do things different with this tank. My 90 Gallon was a full siphon drain and it was dead silent you would never know I had a sump running. I am looking forward to the surface skimming though and the evaporation only coming out of the sump.

Brian

 

[D-Nak]

You may have already replaced them, but I'd get rid of the metal clamps. Mine have always rusted and then were hard to remove. I've switched to the plastic ratchet hose clamps, like these.

 

[Bosco83]

You may have already replaced them, but I'd get rid of the metal clamps. Mine have always rusted and then were hard to remove. I've switched to the plastic ratchet hose clamps, like these.

Thanks for the link I'm going to replace them this was just to get me going since I couldn't find any plastic clamps local.

Brian

 

[evsalty]

Yea I wasn't that concerned about the valve on the drain both my other tanks have it that way and I have never had a problem the last three years. I'm just trying to do things different with this tank. My 90 Gallon was a full siphon drain and it was dead silent you would never know I had a sump running. I am looking forward to the surface skimming though and the evaporation only coming out of the sump.

Brian

Other then going full siphon I am thinking you are running to much flow thru your drains. Slow down your return pump and you should have far less to no noise in your drains. You have TOO much splashing in the sump shown by all the water drops on your plumbing.

FWIW even with a full siphon if you have an overflow in the Dt then the evap should only happen in the sump and the overflow will do the surface skimming like it is designed to do.

 

[Bosco83]

I didn't have an overflow box on my last tank just screens that screwed on to the bulkeads about 3 inches under the water line. That's why it evaporated from the display and the sump.