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I am in the process of building a sump for my Fluval 13.5. I have read so many horror stories about the overflow losing siphon and the sump flooding the tank.
I will drill a small hole in return to prevent reverse siphon, and my eshoppps nano overflow is supposed to be pretty solid.
But I see people place the return pump at the bottom of the right chamber. If worried about overflow, could you not just place the pump just below the surface of the final chamber and thereby assure yourself that even if some weird event happened it could only pump out a few liters?
I mean, if it runs dry, it can do that at the bottom of the sump or higher up, no?
Never seen anyone mention this, or am I missing something?
I will drill a small hole in return to prevent reverse siphon, and my eshoppps nano overflow is supposed to be pretty solid.
But I see people place the return pump at the bottom of the right chamber. If worried about overflow, could you not just place the pump just below the surface of the final chamber and thereby assure yourself that even if some weird event happened it could only pump out a few liters?
I mean, if it runs dry, it can do that at the bottom of the sump or higher up, no?
Never seen anyone mention this, or am I missing something?
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