New sump ???`s
- Thread starter PEMfish
- Start date
PEMfish
Well-Known Member
Did you notice the "the people who want to smart" line? ( flaky joke ).
Glad to hear about the light.
Dang, I have a bulb like that, hate the light it gives off so i have no use for it. But its 'soft white light'. What do bulbs run($)?
PEMfish
Well-Known Member
So that'll be the fixture I'll use. This will be the bulb I'll use: PAR38 Reflector 16 Watt / 5100K: Light Bulbs Etc, Inc. . I won't get ether `cause when X-mas stuff goes on sale, the fixture will to, and I'm ordering some stuff tonight, a $10 bulb from the bank will make me cry. I am SO *chp I won't even buy the voles in the * word.
PEMfish
Well-Known Member
I got he pump today!! 10' of .5'' tube, 2 .r' 90* elbows, and new light bulb or the planted. Its always exiting getting things, even if you know there coming and there nothing exiting. Another good experience with DrsF&S and Fed ex. Don't have the tank yet, didn't think I needed to get it so soon. Tubing was a bit off. Theres a .5'' on the pump so I got .5'' tubing, seemed sensible. I think it will still work with all the parts they gave me, just need some O rings.
PEMfish
Well-Known Member
AGA jacked up there prices 
It doesn't have to be AGA
oh, wait ( have you seen the other options )- it dose
At least it will be quality
But hidden away in the stand...
But I found one used
Yeah, Rod ( owner of Rods Reef - Home ) has about a dozen of them from breading clowns. At half the retail price. Awesome! I'll swing by and pick one up mid next week. I hate to wait but I'll be out that way any way, plus the right tubing hasn't got here yet ( or by then )
It doesn't have to be AGA
oh, wait ( have you seen the other options )- it dose
At least it will be quality
But hidden away in the stand...
But I found one used
Yeah, Rod ( owner of Rods Reef - Home ) has about a dozen of them from breading clowns. At half the retail price. Awesome! I'll swing by and pick one up mid next week. I hate to wait but I'll be out that way any way, plus the right tubing hasn't got here yet ( or by then )
PEMfish
Well-Known Member
Got the tank from Rod. In great shape for an used one.
For the overflow, I was thinking this: (see pic). I know that will create a reliable flow, wont it? Is it looking good? I won't be doing a good looking acrylic job, just something that works. I will also have a tube connected to the top of the U tube to prevent air build up.
For the overflow, I was thinking this: (see pic). I know that will create a reliable flow, wont it? Is it looking good? I won't be doing a good looking acrylic job, just something that works. I will also have a tube connected to the top of the U tube to prevent air build up.
Attachments
PEMfish
Well-Known Member
[fingers crossed] no sarcasm.
I don't get how it will restart after a power outage, I had it figured out. last thing I remember was this brick falling from the sky...
tbittner
Well-Known Member
The water level between the baffle on the outside and the water inside the skimmer box will even out. It will drain the tank until the level in the tank equals the top of the skimmer. Then it will drain the skimmer box until it's equal to the top of the baffle on the outside. The siphon is never broken because both ends of the pipe stay below the water level.
So when you start to fill the tank again, water starts to flow into the skimmer box and air pressure wants the water to be level in both boxes so it forces the water through the tubes again.
It works. Trust me.
(i have a 2" pipe in a tank siphoning water UP 4 feet, 6 1/2 inches, then down a gentle slope for 32 feet, then down 4 feet 11 inches into the sump and it always restarts. My pump is only pumping around 1700 gph into the tank and the siphon keeps up with it, no problem)