Help with overflowing sump system

[Peter Peng]

Originally Posted by e46er

lift the return line u closer to the surface to suck in air and break the syphon on a power outage

edit: you hit reply, you go pull out dinner and you get beaten to the answer

Thank you, that seems like a easy fix for the problem, however the large plastic tube I use that connects the pump to the tank itself is very short, would you recommend be boosting the return pump with a piece of plastic or get a longer tubing to create a U shaped bend to stop the siphon?

Thanks