Power Off DT water height

[Baldy]

so when you filled the tank and killed the power, how much did it drop?

i dont have everything here to be able to try it out, and i want to make sure that the water level i chose will leave enough room to be safe before i get all the acrylic cut

[The Grizz]

All my OF acrylic teeth are about 1 1/2" long so my water level drops about an inch but my tank is also 165 gals with a 65 gal sump so I would say close to 20 gals into my sump when the power goes off.

[Baldy]

Lol, yeah you will be flowing over wire a bit more than me. Like I said on my first post, I'm going to be using the lifereef overflow, and I don't think (read: I hope) the teeth aren't that long

[mark]

backflow; it's going to be the volume of your overflow chambers (or less if you have a standpipe in them), volume of your display until you reach the siphon break of your return outlet plus the volume in your lines.

Best to fill your tank until it overflows into the sump, then fill you sump to your max height your comfortable with. Turn on you pump and mark the level that your sump settles down to as something like "Max fill, pump on" and adjust you ATO to the level as well. If you never top up above this mark with the display running, you won't flood.

As said every display will be different amounts because each each tank will be a little different. My case I'll backflow ~26g but is easliy handled since I run my 75g sump little over 1/2 full.

[Baldy]

Originally Posted by TheNewGuy

i dont have everything here to be able to try it out, and i want to make sure that the water level i chose will leave enough room to be safe before i get all the acrylic cut

^^^

[mark]

and if you set your "max fill" level as described no matter how you cut your material and build you tank, you'll have enough room. Your return pump might be sucking air but you won't flood .