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05-26-2012, 04:19 PM
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I'm sorry to hear you have noisy returns
We sleep next to our tank, too, but luckily I was able to punch a hole in the wall and set up the sump in my office We still hear the hum of 2 pumps ( which drives me nuts ), although the wife says it's all good I wish I could hear your tank  
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05-26-2012, 04:43 PM
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My return pump is great (Eheim Compact 2000). Super quiet. It is the Maxi Jets that are connected to the fluid reactors and the chiller that I would like to smash with a hammer. I'm picking up a Compact 3000 as soon as I stop screwing around on the forum and get my backside out the door, and the MJs will be coming out. Then I'll get to listen to the slurping and splashing in my overflow again. I digress.
This thread has been hugely informative for me. While still a couple of months off, I was debating going larger than the MP10s for the 40B.
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05-26-2012, 05:16 PM
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We also wanted to smash our 1/4HP chiller it's first few days next to the tank
This was summer of 2010 on our 125g FW - there was quite the heat wave here then After some thinking decided to plumb it around the wall to my office and was quite shocked when the wife said, 'save all that lost plumbing and punch a hole through the wall' Went from 12+ feet of head to about 5 Gotta love my wife lots 
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05-28-2012, 01:56 AM
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Did you mean your Eheim pumps ? I have 2 of them in my tank too, they are dead quiet because I have connected them with vinyl hoses instead of pvc pipes. Even so, when I touch the hoses, I still can feel the strong vibration from them or when I just touch the outside sump, but no noise at all. You can use just a few inches of vinyl hose first then attach it with the pvc pipe, it can help to reduce the humming sounds too.
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