In my introduction post I went over some of my equipment purchased alread and hinted at some of the issue ( I perceived) I was going to have with flow rates to my sump due to having the Overflow of my 75Gal Marineland CornerFlo tank only going through a 1 inch bulkhead. I was reading that optimal flow rates were 10x-20x tank volume so seeing Marineland quotes 700GPH, I knew I was going to come up lacking. After going through most of the stages of grief I thought it was time to engineer up and come up with a secondary plan which was to use the second drilled hole that was meant for the return and create an additional overflow. Off to the Lowes!! Then this happened:
HUGE thanks Jaime!
So...armed with the proper term "turn over rate" I hit the searchy button and it seems like 4x turnover per hour through the sump seems to be a good number. So before I head off and return my gaggle of PVC parts in 1 1/2" and 1 1/4" to Lowes am I missing something? As nice as it would be to have a redundant drain (one is none, two is one ), will Ms. Scriptmonkey get her dream of having no pipes seen now that I do not have to come up over the back for the return?
Welcome! The turn over rate is more of a flow rate. You can achieve large flow rates by using power heads/wave makers inside the tank.
HUGE thanks Jaime!
So...armed with the proper term "turn over rate" I hit the searchy button and it seems like 4x turnover per hour through the sump seems to be a good number. So before I head off and return my gaggle of PVC parts in 1 1/2" and 1 1/4" to Lowes am I missing something? As nice as it would be to have a redundant drain (one is none, two is one ), will Ms. Scriptmonkey get her dream of having no pipes seen now that I do not have to come up over the back for the return?