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Ok, this is a bit of a weird one. I got some excellent help doing a hard plumbing job and love the underside of the tank, but I'm going a little batty over the overflow itself. Internal Corner Overflow that comes standard with the Marineland tanks. Was relatively quiet after properly doing the plumbing and seemingly worked perfectly. Now, three months later, I've got two issues. 1) The drain doesn't start easily after restarting the return pump. Every time I do a feed mode on the apex or turn it off to do a water change, I have to hover my finger over the off button on the return pump because the tank will fill and the sump will drain almost to (or slightly past) the point at which the return pump starts sucking in air before it will start to actually flush back down into the sump. This isn't a question of total water volume either. The water will literally completely cover the durso, I can turn off the return pump, wait a minute or two, and then FLUSH the overflow starts up properly and I can turn back on the pump. This is clearly not ideal, for a variety of reasons up to and including the fact that we'll be on vacation with a 10 year old and his dad feeding the fish while we're gone.... Any idea what's happening here??!? 2) The noise level (slurping) has increased exponentially. I'm probably just going to replace the oddly designed durso that came with it (tiny plastic pipe up top instead of a proper t-fitting and cap) but thought I'd throw that out there and see if anyone had suggestions for a better design (no, I can't do a herbie or a bean animal as I only have one drain hole). Stockman's standpipe? Always get great help from you guys so here's hoping! ~Frank PS Anyone know of an aquarium servicing company that does fish sitting? We're gone for a week and the only kid we know lives across the river in Arlington. He's keen to do it, but the 25 min drive each way is a little ridiculous for his parents. Will have an AFS for the DT, but two fish in quarantine aren't so lucky ...
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From the album: treesprite
120 gallon aquarium, after old paint was removed -
From the album: Equipment
DIY modification of CPR CS50 overflow to CS90 equivalent flow plus© James N. Dart
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From the album: Equipment
DIY modification of CPR CS50 overflow to CS90 equivalent flow plus© James N. Dart
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I'm hoping for help on two semi-related issues. First, the plumbing. I have two tanks with CPR overflows (a 55 FOWLR with a CS50 and my 75 DT with a CS100/102). I want to re-do the plumbing and connect to the threaded exterior of the bulkhead on each of these boxes; however, I can't seem to find anywhere that gives the size the bulkhead in terms of what I need. In other words, I'm looking for what size female coupler / adapter I need to connect the threaded bulkhead with the piping going downstream. It could be threaded / slip or threaded / threaded. I also know the CS50 inner diameter is 1/4" less than the on the other CPR boxes, but I'm not certain if that's true for the exterior threads. I don't want to disassemble the plumbing until I'm ready to proceed to completion, and can't figure out another way to determine the sizes I'm looking for. Does anyone out there know? I wish I could just drill the tanks, but they're tempered so that's not an option. Second, the fuge. Recently I've noticed my chaeto isn't growing like it used to, although the GHA in the tank itself I need to knock back periodically tells me the nutrients are there. It seem that some of it develops bubbles (probably oxygen, which ought to be a good thing), floats to the surface, and then shades the rest of the growing area. What lighting cycles are folks using (x hours/day, concurrent or counter-cycle to main lighting)? Also, does anyone run additional circulation / flow in their 'fuge beyond the regular through flow? I've seen the "swirling ball of chaeto" videos, and while it's certainly attractive at one level I suspect the 'pods would be less thrilled. So, I'm wide open to the collective wisdom of WAMAS. Thanks in advance!
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From the album: building tanks
I will start this tank in 2 weeks, maybe, still working on plan, its for seahorse babies but any baby fish , experimenting with a gravity system, ect/ walt
