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So I have been struggling with this for quite some time now. My tank is 65 gallons with an external overflow from life reef and it just has one output. This pipe goes down into a sideways T where some water goes to my refiguium which
has a gate valve to help restrict flow. The rest of the water reaches an output that has a gate valve that I use to modify the output to help minimize the noise level on my overflow box. After the that it enters my sump.
So my dilemma is this, I have tried Hoffman busters or whatever they are called and I can’t seem to get my tank to be quiet unless I adjust the gate valve leading into my sump which then basically restricts the flow above my output in my overflow box allowing water to flow silently but at a steady rate.
This is all great except it makes running an ato nearly impossible because I have my ato setup to deposit water into my overflow box, this I feel then causes an excess of water to build up in my tank raising the level making it close to overfilling.. that’s another problem to handle for another day unless there are ideas for that as well, I have it hooked up to my ProfiLux and it is we to run for say 60 seconds at a time 4 times a day but I stopped that because I felt it was risky.
the thing I cannot figure out is where some of the water in my tank is going. For example right now my tank is quiet and the water level is not too close to the top, and I have a marker for where the water level is right now. But then if I restart my return pump that level fluctuates.. which I can’t understand why? I don’t evaporate water that quickly as well as there is no water leaking anywhere. I know water takes time to fill the pipes and whatnot but I do not know where the water goes; as it sometimes is both higher or sometimes lower than the current marking I measure.
I would think that when I set my gate valve to a specific position, it would keep that same amount of water every time. I have resorted to normally now just dumping my ato water in manually and ignoring my ato all together because I tend to have to make sure it does not overflow as to always fluctuates.
has a gate valve to help restrict flow. The rest of the water reaches an output that has a gate valve that I use to modify the output to help minimize the noise level on my overflow box. After the that it enters my sump.
So my dilemma is this, I have tried Hoffman busters or whatever they are called and I can’t seem to get my tank to be quiet unless I adjust the gate valve leading into my sump which then basically restricts the flow above my output in my overflow box allowing water to flow silently but at a steady rate.
This is all great except it makes running an ato nearly impossible because I have my ato setup to deposit water into my overflow box, this I feel then causes an excess of water to build up in my tank raising the level making it close to overfilling.. that’s another problem to handle for another day unless there are ideas for that as well, I have it hooked up to my ProfiLux and it is we to run for say 60 seconds at a time 4 times a day but I stopped that because I felt it was risky.
the thing I cannot figure out is where some of the water in my tank is going. For example right now my tank is quiet and the water level is not too close to the top, and I have a marker for where the water level is right now. But then if I restart my return pump that level fluctuates.. which I can’t understand why? I don’t evaporate water that quickly as well as there is no water leaking anywhere. I know water takes time to fill the pipes and whatnot but I do not know where the water goes; as it sometimes is both higher or sometimes lower than the current marking I measure.
I would think that when I set my gate valve to a specific position, it would keep that same amount of water every time. I have resorted to normally now just dumping my ato water in manually and ignoring my ato all together because I tend to have to make sure it does not overflow as to always fluctuates.