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Neo Jeo · Feb 5, 2018

West1 said:
A little off topic but... is that a real blue clownfish??

Nope lol, Sure wish it was.

Neo Jeo · Feb 7, 2018

O my goodness... took me 3 1/2 hrs to switch out my over flow. Hard to get the others off! That small hack saw was. Good touch! The one bulk head leaked so I have to removed it and try it again. Not leaking thank you! Lol that was my set back. I measured everything and then dry connected. Then I glued, the bottom pvc goes into my sump about 3/4” I wanted more but that’s how it turned out. The gate valve was a great idea! I closed it a little until the over flow started to fill past normal then backed off. It makes the noise a lot less! Thanks now my new current flow 1050 pump is 3 times louder then my old dcs-9000 Jacob pump. So that sucks ether the current pump is defective because they say it’s virtually silent but it’s not! So I don’t know might have to go back to the 9000 pump or down grade to the 7000 but I know my 9000 is quite maybe the 7000 won’t be??? Awww I don’t know!

Anyways looks at my new creation!

Crabs McJones · Feb 7, 2018

Neo Jeo said:
O my goodness... took me 3 1/2 hrs to switch out my over flow. Hard to get the others off! That small hack saw was. Good touch! The one bulk head leaked so I have to removed it and try it again. Not leaking thank you! Lol that was my set back. I measured everything and then dry connected. Then I glued, the bottom pvc goes into my sump about 3/4” I wanted more but that’s how it turned out. The gate valve was a great idea! I closed it a little until the over flow started to fill past normal then backed off. It makes the noise a lot less! Thanks now my new current flow 1050 pump is 3 times louder then my old dcs-9000 Jacob pump. So that sucks ether the current pump is defective because they say it’s virtually silent but it’s not! So I don’t know might have to go back to the 9000 pump or down grade to the 7000 but I know my 9000 is quite maybe the 7000 won’t be??? Awww I don’t know!

Anyways looks at my new creation!

Pretty snazzy! Turned out great!just something to consider for future reference, id make a cut after the gate valve and put in another union. So if you ever need to remove the gate valve for maintenance or anything you can.

Neo Jeo · Feb 7, 2018

crabs_mcjones said:
Pretty snazzy! Turned out great!just something to consider for future reference, id make a cut after the gate valve and put in another union. So if you ever need to remove the gate valve for maintenance or anything you can.

Thanks! To remove the gate valve all I do is pull of the sump after I disconnect the union and it comes right out ! Is there anything I need to know about the gate valve any precautions I need to take ? I just closed it until the overflow couldn’t drain fast enough and then I opened a little bit more to bring it back to normal is that when I do ? Sucks my new pump is a lot louder. You think I should go with the Jecod 7000 versus the 9000 or just keep my 9000 I have ?

Crabs McJones · Feb 7, 2018

Neo Jeo said:
Thanks! To remove the gate valve all I do is pull of the sump after I disconnect the union and it comes right out ! Is there anything I need to know about the gate valve any precautions I need to take ? I just closed it until the overflow couldn’t drain fast enough and then I opened a little bit more to bring it back to normal is that when I do ? Sucks my new pump is a lot louder. You think I should go with the Jecod 7000 versus the 9000 or just keep my 9000 I have ?

Sounds like you've got it all set up right

I'd say jeep the 9000 and try to figure out why it's noisy. Could be a defective unit if that's the case the company should warranty it for you. Did you use the rubber feet under it? Is the noise coming right from the pump or is it more like telhe pump is vibrating against the sump?

Neo Jeo · Feb 7, 2018

crabs_mcjones said:
Sounds like you've got it all set up right I'd say jeep the 9000 and try to figure out why it's noisy. Could be a defective unit if that's the case the company should warranty it for you. Did you use the rubber feet under it? Is the noise coming right from the pump or is it more like telhe pump is vibrating against the sump?

The current 1050 is noisy the dcs 9000 is not. The noise is coming from the pump motor that’s spinning. Like a jet engine. I moved it around and no luck

the 9000 is over kill I can run it on 3 vs 10 but the 7000 might be better but it might be more noisy.

RELLIK-REEF · Feb 7, 2018

It takes a little time but your set up should be fairly easy to make quiet. Congrats on fixing your problem. Good luck with the pump. I went through three before I found one that had enough flow but was silent.

Neo Jeo · Feb 8, 2018

Rellikeno said:
It takes a little time but your set up should be fairly easy to make quiet. Congrats on fixing your problem. Good luck with the pump. I went through three before I found one that had enough flow but was silent.

Thanks! What pump did you end up with?

RELLIK-REEF · Feb 8, 2018

This is from aquatic warehouse.com
It’s a LFS for me they showed ma a demo and it worked great. So I’ve been using one ever since.

RELLIK-REEF · Feb 13, 2018

Just seeing how things are going?

Neo Jeo · Feb 13, 2018

Working well, I got a reef octopus v4 and used the gate valve to crest back pressure. Seems like it’s quiter

RELLIK-REEF · Feb 13, 2018

Nice good job.

Neo Jeo · Feb 16, 2018

So when I close my gate valve and turn my pump up in speed. The overflow drops quick and the pump like re sets . Makes a gargalling noise then shoots out bubbles from the return jets. What’s that about lol? When I open the gate to let more flow seems to stop.

Crabs McJones · Feb 16, 2018

Neo Jeo said:
So when I close my gate valve and turn my pump up in speed. The overflow drops quick and the pump like re sets . Makes a gargalling noise then shoots out bubbles from the return jets. What’s that about lol? When I open the gate to let more flow seems to stop.

That doesn't make any sense. when you close the gate and turn up the pump you're restricting the flow of water down to your sump so your pump is pumping all the water from the sump pump into the display and there's no water left down below. If the pump is pumping water faster up into the display than the overflow can bring it down then you're going to start sucking air when your water level gets too low

Neo Jeo · Feb 16, 2018

crabs_mcjones said:
That doesn't make any sense. when you close the gate and turn up the pump you're restricting the flow of water down to your sump so your pump is pumping all the water from the sump pump into the display and there's no water left down below. If the pump is pumping water faster up into the display than the overflow can bring it down then you're going to start sucking air when your water level gets too low

That’s what I’m saying...I don’t know what it is. The overflow drops then the return spits out bubbles aggressively with a gargaling noise... then all returns to normal then it happeneds again ...