Help,my wife is complaining about the noise from my overflow

[Hemmdog]

Raise that Durso standpipe to reduce the distance the water has to fall.

+1

 

[SeaJay]

The noise is not from the drain pipe but from the water flowing into the weir before flowing going down to the sump

Which is why you need to substantially raise the water level in your overflow, so the water doesn’t have to run down the side of the box.

 

[Glott3133]

Which is why you need to substantially raise the water level in your overflow, so the water doesn’t have to run down the side of the box.

I've noticed something similar. How does doing this impact the flow through the sump. Obviously it slows it down, but what else?

 

[Water Dog]

It wouldn’t slow down flow at all... by raising the standpipe, all you’re doing is shortening the distance that the water has to fall from the weir teeth, thereby reducing the splashing noise. The drain pipe diameter remains unchanged.

 

[S2G]

Yep raise your water level with the drain pipe.

 

[Oliver d]

Gotcha will do it

 

[dank reefer]

And get some saltwater mix ready as you are going to lower your water level in your sump. We don't want the wifey complaining about sump gurgling noise now.

 

[lazidog]

My wife is complaining about the noise my overflow makes anybody have any ideas how I can silence it.Its a coast to coast overflow and the noise comes from the water tumbling down before it flows to the sump

You can make it silent with the proper plumbing and gate valves, I have a reef synergy that is silent, has 3 drains, the main drain has a syphon and it carries the majority of the water the second drain is a backup and is tuned way down, the 3rd is just an open pipe that is the safety and should never carry water.

 

[Joseph Disalvo]

“She said it was the tank or me” *feeds fish haha anyway...

 

[Crabs McJones]

Honestly the only solution is to just get rid of the whole thing.



The wife I mean, of course.

Best advice ever!

 

[Joseph Disalvo]

Haha

 

[Hermie]

Come on people all these wife jokes doesn't help

 

[doodledreads]

Well, time to get a new one.

 

[zoomonster]

Aside from raising the water level I might just stuff some filter foam blocks in there. More to clean but hey if it appeases she who must be obeyed lol
I actually traded in my wife for a girlfriend that actually likes my tank w/o reservation

 

[Oliver d]

Thnx for the advice,trade in or get rid of the wife never she never asks how much money I put into the tank or anything

 

[Hermie]

I complain about my own overflow making noise (and I don't have a wife), the solution is to replace the overflow with a quieter one

 

[bblumberg]

My wife is complaining about the noise my overflow makes anybody have any ideas how I can silence it.Its a coast to coast overflow and the noise comes from the water tumbling down before it flows to the sump

Best way is to reduce the distance the water falls. How to do this depends on what type of plumbing you are using. If Bean Animal or Herbie, then you simply need to close down the valve on the full siphon line a bit until you get the desired degree of quiet.

 

[JasonC80]

Definitely put a stand pipe in the overflow drain to raise the water level in the overflow, that will reduce some water noise.

There are durso designs for single pipe overflow that put an elbow on top to set level, and a drill hole in top to tune the airflow. Proper airflow = minimum water noise inside the pipe and hitting the sump.

I assume the overflow has a cover, try a heavy one to suppress noise if you dont already have.

 

[charlesk]

See if your LFS will do a trade . You may be able to get some new frags for the wife.

 

[Bapeluso]

Raise that durso standpipe, buy her some flowers, put the moves on and give her a good somethin somethin (if ya know what I mean). Mine dont complain about a dang thing after that hahaha. Then ya keep the girl and keep the fish