Protecting a Closed Loop Intake

[Skimmerking]

Originally Posted by asmodeus

Cool I'm not the only one that did this, I have lost 3 turbo's from this so far. I havent lost any fish yet thou.. thee pretty much keep away from the flow thou. I have tried sticking it into the over flow ,but man it sucks to much.

Here is picture of it

NOte what i have typed here tried it in the over flow but it was too much suction. Now that was with a barracuda 4500gph if you use a mag 12 might work.

[TheReefGeek]

Asmodeus, you are running a barracuda too? That is the exact pump I am hooking up, and my intake looks identical to yours, with the horizontal cuts in it.

How have you arranged your return lines? I setup a return manifold with 7, 1/2 inch t's and loclines.

[Jaws]

The only thing I would be careful with when running it in an overflow is sometimes bubbles from the falling water and foam end up in the overflow and once they go through a pump on a closed loop, you end up with thousands of micro bubbles. JMO

[TheReefGeek]

And carefull you dont run your overflow dry because you dont have enough linear lenght of overflow to keep up.