Plumbing my 125

[Flieger]

I have a question about plumbing my 125 so it's as quiet as possible. It's a Marineland tank with an overflow in each corner. Each overflow has 2 holes drilled in the bottom with plumbing supplied to have one drain and one return out of each corner. Should I hook it up as supplied or set up a kind of Bean Animal with one side having a single return and emergency overflow and the other side have the main syphon and other drain? Any other suggestions? I would really not like to drill extra holes in the tank or take out the current over flows.

Thanks

[zygote2k]

overflows are typically quiet as made by the manufacturer. most of the noise issues come from 2 things- 1) the pump is flowing too much for the returns to handle, 2) the water exiting from the drains into the sump needs to be encapsulated into a drain box/bubble trap.

Figure out those two scenarios and you'll have a quiet tank.

[Flieger]

Thanks. I am building a drain box in my sump that will then flow into 2 4" filter socks then to the skimmer and over another bubble trap. Hopefully that will get the job done.

 

 

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