Plumbing: In Over My Head?

[demodiki]

The sump is leaking. :(

[demodiki]

...and so is one of my bulkheads :(

[demodiki]

So, I go the sump filled and turned on. Here is the question: Should the water in the drain be so turbulent? It's 'belching' water out of the sump at times! There are no microbubbles in the tank.


The Durso level seems fine. No fluctuations.

As you can see...the return area looks fine.


TIA!

[Bill S]

Danny,

If you are getting "belching", you are dragging too much air down the drain with the water. Seriously, try a piece of tubing thru the top of your durso, to below the level of the drain. This will allow trapped air to escape.

[caferacermike]

I do it one better, and can probably help, I tap my durso cap to fit 1/4"NPT threads and install a threaded Guest 90. To that I run a length of tubing and a ball valve back into my stand. This way I can control the air into the durso and it is silent due to being located under the stand.

[demodiki]

What I have done in the meantime is dial down my drain via the ball valve. I know this is not an ideal solution because now things can get stuck in there. I am going to go try the tubing trick and see if that works. In the next couple of days I will try Mike's idea. I guess it wasn't really belching but...just throwing a lot of water into the sump and roiling it something fierce. The salt creep would have been astronomical.

[demodiki]

Update:
When setting up a Two Little Fishes phosban reactor....read the directions first! I just spent an hour siphoning (most) of the phosban granules from my refugium.