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Re: NFC: Another Filter/Aquarium Question

If you put it midlevel you stand a chance of coming
home someday and finding half the water from the tank
on the floor, failures happen. Put the elbow at the
level you want the water to be. If you want to play it
safe you could go a half inch over what your pump
outlet is. 
--- Larry Needham <LBN at satx_rr.com> wrote:
> I'm talking about the other end of the wet / dry. 
> The pipe that the water
> falls into and is gravity fed to the filter.  I have
> a Rio 3100 (500-600 gph
> range at 5 feet) and want to make sure I don't put
> my collector too far or
> too close to the top of the tank.  I will soon be
> cutting a whole in my
> plexiglass with the appropriate diameter for my
> piping that I'll hook a 90
> degree elbow to inside the tank.  I want to make
> sure I put the hole close
> to where it needs to be.  I'd rather not have to put
> it mid tank and just
> run pipe up vetically from it just to see how high
> the opening level should
> be.
> 
> Thanks,
> Larry
> 
> 
> > That depends on what size pump that you want to
> use,
> > and how much water that you want to move. You
> usually
> > want to move at least six times the volume of your
> > tank per day. As a minimum. Most try for 1-2
> changes
> > per hour and use a corresponding size pump. If,
> the
> > tubing is too small dia for the pump you will get
> > backpressure
> > which will wear the pump out much quicker then it
> > should.
> >
> > If you look at the outlets of the pump you are
> > considering you will readily tell what size tubing
> > that you should use for that pump. So, look at how
> > much water you want to turn over, find a pump that
> > will do it that you are happy with and see what
> its
> > inlet and outlet measurements are. Most pumps
> listed
> > in catalogs
> > have the measurements listed.
> > jake
> > --- Larry Needham <LBN at satx_rr.com> wrote:
> > > What size tubing to most of you with bigger
> tanks
> > > have going from the tank
> > > to the Wet / Dry filter?  How big is the opening
> for
> > > where the water
> > > escapes?
> > >
> > > Is an inch too small for 170 Gallon tank?
> > >
> > > Larry
> > >
> >
> >
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