trevorhiller
Reefing Nurse
All my past tanks have been pre-plumbed or sumpless, so I am looking for some advice on plumbing the overflow of my new custom Glass Cages tank.
It's setup with a coast to coast overflow with a notched acrylic weir comb, but it's slightly unique in the fact that the tank builder made it so that the dual 1" return lines come through bulkheads in the bottom of the overflow. I'm told that most people cut/notch the weir teeth out where they want the return nozzles to "poke through" the weir teeth.
To be honest, it wasn't quite what I was expecting for the design, but I think I can hard plumb up to the level of the weir teeth a 1" female coupling and then use LocLine from there.
The 3 drain lines are all 1.5" so I am looking at setting up a Bean Animal configuration.
I have a couple questions:
-Does it matter which of the 3 holes is the primary drain? I'm thinking about doing the one the furthest from the sump (left-most 1.5" drain in the picture). The sump will be on an elevated platform off to the right when looking at the back of the tank. But then perhaps the middle should be primary so it equally pulls from the left and right of the coast-to-coast overflow? I don't know.
- I see some people put elbows/mufflers on their drain pipes. Would you recommend either of these?
- How tall of a pipe would you put in the primary drain? Does it matter?
-What level should the secondary overflow pipe be at? The level of the weir?
I don't know what I don't know on this one, so any master overflow plumbers out there want to weigh in and give me some tips before I screw up some expensive schedule 80 fittings?
Thanks
It's setup with a coast to coast overflow with a notched acrylic weir comb, but it's slightly unique in the fact that the tank builder made it so that the dual 1" return lines come through bulkheads in the bottom of the overflow. I'm told that most people cut/notch the weir teeth out where they want the return nozzles to "poke through" the weir teeth.
To be honest, it wasn't quite what I was expecting for the design, but I think I can hard plumb up to the level of the weir teeth a 1" female coupling and then use LocLine from there.
The 3 drain lines are all 1.5" so I am looking at setting up a Bean Animal configuration.
I have a couple questions:
-Does it matter which of the 3 holes is the primary drain? I'm thinking about doing the one the furthest from the sump (left-most 1.5" drain in the picture). The sump will be on an elevated platform off to the right when looking at the back of the tank. But then perhaps the middle should be primary so it equally pulls from the left and right of the coast-to-coast overflow? I don't know.
- I see some people put elbows/mufflers on their drain pipes. Would you recommend either of these?
- How tall of a pipe would you put in the primary drain? Does it matter?
-What level should the secondary overflow pipe be at? The level of the weir?
I don't know what I don't know on this one, so any master overflow plumbers out there want to weigh in and give me some tips before I screw up some expensive schedule 80 fittings?
Thanks
