Anyone still running durso?

[501Reefer]

Well i hit the first road bump in my new build. I've got a 60 gallon cube with an internal overflow with 2 holes in the bottom. Looks like my only options are durso or get a 3rd hole drilled for bean.

 

[JonoB]

I have a 60g cube with the 2 holes in the bottom. I run a Herbie overflow. Works great other than needing a couple adjustments from time to time.

I switched because the Herbie was much quieter.

 

[501Reefer]

I have a 60g cube with the 2 holes in the bottom. I run a Herbie overflow. Works great other than needing a couple adjustments from time to time.

I switched because the Herbie was much quieter.

Did you drill another hole for your return?

 

[dadnjesse]

Did you drill another hole for your return?

You can run the return up the back and over.

 

[thunderreefer]

I have a 60g cube as well with durso setup. Hindsight, I wish I would have drilled for a separate return and converted to a herbie. My first tank, so I didn’t know the difference. For months it sounded like a loud shower drain, but I was finally able to tune so I don’t notice anymore.

 

[OrionN]

I run a Durso drain. Work fine for me and trouble free.

 

[501Reefer]

I have a 60g cube as well with durso setup. Hindsight, I wish I would have drilled for a separate return and converted to a herbie. My first tank, so I didn’t know the difference. For months it sounded like a loud shower drain, but I was finally able to tune so I don’t notice anymore.

At this point budget is more of a problem than noise so I'm thinking I will just run durso. Thanks for your input

 

[501Reefer]

You can run the return up the back and over.

Yeah I thought about that but it almost feels like cheating after going this far.

 

[OrionN]

I am so old, I remember when we use to have a waterfall in our tank. I used to put a slanted piece of acrylic to decrease the noise. Then Richard Durso came up with the Durso overflow. A huge improvement. Now we have essentially silence overflow. The thing is I am fairly deaf now so a little noise does not bother me much.

 

[JonoB]

Did you drill another hole for your return?

Nope, just ran it over the back.

 

[501Reefer]

I have a 60g cube as well with durso setup. Hindsight, I wish I would have drilled for a separate return and converted to a herbie. My first tank, so I didn’t know the difference. For months it sounded like a loud shower drain, but I was finally able to tune so I don’t notice anymore.

Just single drain, single return? After measuring mine if I was to add a 3rd hole I'd have to relocate it out of the overflow box. I'm sure many tanks are still ran with a single drain but it feels a little like playing with fire to me.

 

[Hemmdog]

my 90 runs a durso. It’s loud. Should of drilled returns in that dang tank..

 

[jda]

I only run standpipes - durso or otherwise. I do not care about noise, and I like that they never clog or need adjustments. I use 1.5 or 2.0 inch on everything. Yes, they still work. You can build mufflers for them and with a sock on the other side, they are pretty quiet, but probably not silent.

I have no capacity to risk any kind of a flood, so a bit of noise is a fine with me. I also like that they can take up very little room in my tank like this:

 

[Pau Hana Reefer]

I turned my pre-drilled tank into Herbie. I used the two pre-drilled holes for my drain, one for my primary drain standpipe and the other as my emergency standpipe. I run an return in the back and over the lip of the tank.

As others mentioned, it is completely silent. Every once in a while, it makes some noise when I pause the return for feeding or water change due to air bubbles getting trapped in the pipes.

 

[andrewkw]

I have 2 durso systems, while they may not be dead silent, I don't find them loud. Personally I don't want a silent tank, I want some hum or splashing or some kind of white noise that indicates the systems are running.

My latest frag tank is a herbie. I was originally going to do a bean but didn't bother with the 3rd drain since there is minimal risk of clogging and it's not extremely high flow. It for sure is quieter but again I don't find anything exceptionally loud about durso.

 

[501Reefer]

It's not the durso that I'm worried about. It's the fact that I only have 1 drain with no emergency. i actually prefer the sound of running water.

 

[Softhammer]

Twin Dursos. Last tank had a single. Been running them since 2004 without one single problem ever. If it’s too noisy then your standpipe is too short

 

[Reeferdude1888]

I set this tank up with 3 holes drilled one for Durso one for return one for emergency overflow and the Durso has been virtually silent the 8 years it's been running..

 

[WiscoFishNut]

My 60g cube is running a durso since that's the way it came originally. In hindsight I would have went with a non-corner flow setup and got an external overflow kit. That's the "fun" part of this hobby lol. Making choices and learning from them constantly :p My first SW tank was a rimmed 75g with a canister filter, so I'm making progress slowly lol

 

[kyleinpdx]

make it a herbie, run the return over the back of the tank. paint it black if you dont want it to be as noticeable.