jonclark96
Past CCA President
This weekend I was able to get my new 135 gallon tank (thanks again to Tony for helping me get things up and running). This is my first tank that I've owned that was drilled for a sump, and being that it is an acrylic tank, I decided to use the sump for filtration.
While I've been keeping fish for a long time, I've always stayed away from sumps because 1) I've never owned a drilled tank before and 2) the fear of overflowing the sump always outweighed everything else. Now that I have the right situation, it was a no brainer to get it set up.
To my question - the tank has dual overflows, so I have drain lines coming from both sides of the tank into a tee fitting that runs directly into the sump. One drain line is semi-rigid and runs more or less directly to the top of the sump itself. The other drain line is the ribbed, flexible hose that looks kind of like a drain line off a washing machine. This line comes from the bulkhead, loops below the top of the sump, and back up to the tee fitting.
The best I can tell, there are two main "sources" of noise. The first comes from the drain lines themselves, and the splashing noise as the water enters the sump. I tried multiple configurations in the sump (drip plate, no drip plate, floss on drip plate) and the differences were negligible. The other noise is more of a gurgle, and it seems to come from the overflow with the flexible hose connected to it. The gurgle isn't consistent, and occurs every 4-5 seconds or so. Somehow, air is getting in the system, but I'm not quite sure how.
Any ideas how to make things quieter? The overflows have durso standpipes, although I'm not 100% sure how that plays into the equation.
While I've been keeping fish for a long time, I've always stayed away from sumps because 1) I've never owned a drilled tank before and 2) the fear of overflowing the sump always outweighed everything else. Now that I have the right situation, it was a no brainer to get it set up.
To my question - the tank has dual overflows, so I have drain lines coming from both sides of the tank into a tee fitting that runs directly into the sump. One drain line is semi-rigid and runs more or less directly to the top of the sump itself. The other drain line is the ribbed, flexible hose that looks kind of like a drain line off a washing machine. This line comes from the bulkhead, loops below the top of the sump, and back up to the tee fitting.
The best I can tell, there are two main "sources" of noise. The first comes from the drain lines themselves, and the splashing noise as the water enters the sump. I tried multiple configurations in the sump (drip plate, no drip plate, floss on drip plate) and the differences were negligible. The other noise is more of a gurgle, and it seems to come from the overflow with the flexible hose connected to it. The gurgle isn't consistent, and occurs every 4-5 seconds or so. Somehow, air is getting in the system, but I'm not quite sure how.
Any ideas how to make things quieter? The overflows have durso standpipes, although I'm not 100% sure how that plays into the equation.
