Need Help with AGA Overflow Please!!!

[sytanek]

Ok, setup my 55 AGA last night. The problem I'm having is with the Overflow Accesory Setup. I have it all hooked up according to directions. I have the overflow running down and splitting between the sump/refugium controlled by a ball valve above the refugium. The problem I am having is it sounds like there is tons of air being sucked through the overflow piping. I am running 1" piping throughout. At my refugium location which with the ball valve open is a straight down 2" pipe, with it open fully and all water going to my refugium I am getting a ton of air, and gurgling from all the air. With the ball valve half way closed I get tons of air at both the refugium and the sump.

Would putting a 1" to like 3/4 or 1/2" reducer help get rid of all the air? Or is there another problem?


Thanks in advance!!

 

[sytanek]

bump

 

[Coffman34]

I don't know if this will help, but on my overflow, which is a kinda messed up design, I have a ball-valve right below it. If I shut it a little bit so that the water doesn't just rush straight in, I get no air sound, however, that limits the water flow, and right now, my return pump has more flow than my overflow, So I'm having to watch it carefully until I can get another overflow.

Coffman

 

[sytanek]

Fortunately my flow is about perfectly equal, so I may be able to insert a ball valve above the t.

 

[Shagsbeard]

Have you tried the Durso or Stockman stand pipes? They can limit the noise quite well. The stockman get's my vote... I use it and it works fine. Most of the noise in my system is now from the skimmer and the outflow of the drain into the sump. I can silence both with filter socks, but would prefer not to use them.

 

[beaniebeagle]

wouldnt restrict the overflow water(if you have one overflow), if anything plugs it up some, you're gonna have a flood

 

[sytanek]

I'm not sure what type of pipe I have, just the accessory kit that comes with an AGA for a 55g