Booms cube-80

[Skimmerking]

that is easy my friend
just drill a hole in the return pipe just above the water line and that will act as a siphon. I would put it in the back facing the wall of the tank thou so you dont get any spray thou IME

[Boomboy]

Originally Posted by asmodeus

that is easy my friend
just drill a hole in the return pipe just above the water line and that will act as a siphon. I would put it in the back facing the wall of the tank thou so you dont get any spray thou IME

do you mean in the sump part or in the tank part?

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by Boomboy

do you mean in the sump part or in the tank part?

He was talking about the Tank water line. Which means for a siphon to work, your return plumbing needs to higher than the water line... You will usually see a siphon break on plumbing that comes up over the tank rim and back down under the water.

That's why I suggested check valves, because I was (and still am) under the impression that your return plumbing comes back in on the top 2 bulkheads on the back of your tank?

[Boomboy]

Originally Posted by JDigital

He was talking about the Tank water line. Which means for a siphon to work, your return plumbing needs to higher than the water line... You will usually see a siphon break on plumbing that comes up over the tank rim and back down under the water.

That's why I suggested check valves, because I was (and still am) under the impression that your return plumbing comes back in on the top 2 bulkheads on the back of your tank?

yeah that is correct, the returns are just the top 2 on the back wall of the tank. originally i was going to use those for the CL but changed my mind after i got the tank.

Originally Posted by asmodeus

hey man i see that you went with the 45 in stead of the 90 you will see alot better flow and less head loss on 45 then 90 and it looking pretty fancy now

yeah i did, it does look better with the 45.

[Boomboy]

i was just working on my plumbing and i was wondering if putting the union under water is a bad thing, and if i want to keep it above?

[Boomboy]

well ive got a few things in the mail and now i can finish the plumbing but before that i need to get the glass in for the baffles in the sump, i took apart my stand to get them in properly. i will get some pictures later.

[Boomboy]

well here are some of the things i got, the rest are bulkheads and loclines and such. The only thing i am not pleased with is that when i ordered my product from BRS and the charge came up on my credit card, the credit card company charged an extra 1.25 for the dollar exchange, so for something that was 260 was now 410, so i wont be buying from them any time soon. Got a little work ahead of me to be able to get water into it, but im excited because im getting there.



I also got my 2 tanks to fit finally but i had to take the tank off to do it.



more to come once i get my sump built and finished and put the tank back on the stand.



and a little preview of what the loclines look like in my manifold.