Converting a durso to Bean Animal

[Seriak]

Originally Posted by FishyFishy!

Of course all of the bean animal setups have trickles... but in the same overflow! (I'm sure you only have one overflow with 3 pipes in it)

You would be correct. If most of the flow was then going down the full siphon side, there would be minimal turnover on the trickle side. I am not sure if this would cause enough of a problem that nitrates would buildup as it would still surface skim just at a really slow rate. I would be interested to see this in action.

So what if you put the trickle in the same side as the siphon and essentially only surface skim from one side and raise the overflow height in the other side a bit and turn it into an emergency side or

Have two full siphons with trickles and forget the emergency. Would also have to forget about combining any pipes below as full siphons cannot be connected to anything else.

This is why I hate multiple overflows. I prefer one big external.