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Awesome! For your size tank a single return would be fine. But having dual would give you equal flow on each side of the tank. Just gotta have a pump that can handle the extra head pressure from the split.My Shadow Overflow is coming in this week from BRS for a future build, super stoked! For a tank of 36 x 18 x 20, in your opinion, what is more preferable, a single or dual returns?
I have one setup in my 40 breeder. I had the stand pipes at the recom3nded height. It was still noisy. So I saw in here to have the full siphon under the water level. I shortened the pipe to 2 inches to put it underneath the water and it hasent helped at all. I'm running a mag 7 return for flow. Any help would be appreciated
Awesome! Ball valves will work fine, but sometimes a gate can get that little bit of tweaking some may need.Just a ball valve. I think the full siphon was a little to short, I raised it up a quarter of an inch and it helped. Completly quiet now. Once I get my new sump and build a new stand I'll redo all plumbing and use a gate valve
Has anyone using the overflow plumbed a standard Herbie into the rear box?
Silence is key to me when it comes to a tanks overflow, from what I've read if the bulkheads ran through the tank are under water fully then the only noise people were hearing is the drains or the initial fall of water through the weirs.
Basically what my question is, is that can a standard 2 drain herbie be plumbed, raising the initial full siphon high enough in the rear box to raise the water level in the in tank box high enough to eliminate all noise.
Yes the Herbie method will work fine as well. You can raise the water level high enough to eliminate any noise. For the most silent operation we recommend the modified bean setup. Most of the people that have noise issues is because they do not have the pipes properly sized inside the rear box to eliminate noise. When setup properly it will be pretty much dead silent. The key is to have the water level in the rear box high enough to cover the incoming flow from the 2 drilled holes. Once dialed in properly this is easily achieved.
We will be doing some more videos on actually how to plumb the rear box internal pipes on how to make the overflow silent.
So when I take the lid off everything changes is this supposed to happen? It's like it loses the siphon?
I have 3 drains reduced down to 1 inch with a gate valve on the primary. When the lid is off the rear box says fairly full and I can adjust it quiet to a full siphon. When I put the lid on the water level in the rear box drops and nothing I do will adjust it quiet...
I have 3 drains reduced down to 1 inch with a gate valve on the primary. When the lid is off the rear box says fairly full and I can adjust it quiet to a full siphon. When I put the lid on the water level in the rear box drops and nothing I do will adjust it quiet...
Interesting, I'm still trying to decide on whether to purchase this overflow or not.
I would as well reduce down to 1"
When you have it running at full siphon is the overflow 100% quiet, or can you hear any trickling noise?
Is the lid such a tight fit that it makes the box virtually sealed, therefore you create a pressure issue within the box involving the drain, you have the hole cut in the top of the curved pipe ide assume?
I have never plumbed that was, I use a herbie method, and have 2 vertical standpipes the full siphon pipe length is adjusted to allow a siphon to be created and the water level be just below the secondary pipe. Runs 100% quiet.