gnorman
Active Member
hey everyone, as some of you may know i got my 150g (60x24x24) lee mar glass tank in a while ago. my dad and i have been working on the plumbing and ran across some problems as we filled the tank. we did the returns on top of the tank. 1 inch piping from the return hole inside the overflow box to a 3/4 PVC along the top brace of the tank to a 1/2 lock-heads for exit of water into the tank. we have 4 returns all together on that circuit, 1 in each corner. then inside the overflow box we have 2 Rios 1200 that pump water in the middle part of the tank coming out of the overflow box, those holes are completely waterproof sealed. the drain is a 2 inch PVC stand pipe. we drilled a hole in the top and seem to have found the right tool to plug it up to keep from the toilet noise. the sump came with 2 socks but we didn't know how to plumb the return to both of them due to lack of space, tools needed, and one other issue which is... if we glued the PVC to the bulkheads of the socks how would we ever be able to change the socks. so thats why we decided to go with just 1 sock. we have a sump/fuge system with the fuge in the middle, a euro-reef RS 250 skimmer in the last chamber then also in the skimmer chamber is the intake to the main external pump wich is a dolphin 5600-4700... the main problem we ran across is that, the water level in the DT is way to high. its at the very top of the slit cuts in the overflow box to drain the water, and only just 2-3 centimeters from the glass supports. we took out some water but that only caused the water in the sump to lower. so when we take water out of the system the water in the DT stays the same ( way to high ) and the water in the sump seems to get lower. i would like the water in the DT to be in the middle of the slits. how do we fix this? is this a big problem or something that can be fixed rather easy.
thanks to all of you for taking time to read this as it is very important to us ( we want to get this tank up and running!), also, i would post pics of the equipment but i dont know how to
. thanks again to all of your help
eric
thanks to all of you for taking time to read this as it is very important to us ( we want to get this tank up and running!), also, i would post pics of the equipment but i dont know how to
eric