She's ALIVE!!! I started everything up last night...after completely taking apart my overflow and re-building it because I had a premonition that it would leak (now it does not for sure).
The return pump is pretty loud...my wife hates it so I'm working on methods to quiet it down.
The Bean Animal is dead silent...once I got it going right and tuned in. Amazing but a 1/4" turn of the gate valve will move the water level 1/4" in my overflow...so I can see why ball valves would be crazy tough to tune.
Still dealing with some cloudiness in the water, but working on that too.
