Re: [APD] Adjusting Water Height

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

The standpipe would be by far the easiest. It needn't be anything more than a length of PVC that will fit in the drain. Usually you can adjust the height a bit by sliding it up or down in the drain socket. . Or you can always cut a few long pieces and tiral and error it to to just the right length. If yu're not using a standpipe now, it's unlikely to be any noiser using a plain open stand pipe.

sh
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Daniel Krosch <danielkrosch at iinet_net.au>
To: aquatic plants digest <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 2:50:41 AM
Subject: Re: [APD] Adjusting Water Height


Jerry,

As a disclaimer, I don't have a lot of experience with sump/overflow  
systems, but fwiw is there any reason you couldn't attach another  
piece of acrylic over the lower 1/8 of an inch or so of the comb?  
That should effectively reduce what level the water can fall to -  
perhaps even some waterproof tape might work as a trial? The other  
option could be to install a standpipe inside the overflow of which  
increasing/decreasing the length should be enough to affect your  
water level...
HTH

Daniel.


On 23/09/2006, at 2:32 PM, Jerry Baker wrote:

> I have a small niggle with my current set up. The water level is  
> just a
> fraction of an inch too low. It allows some light from the metal  
> halides
> to escape from between the tank's molding and the water surface. This
> makes a very bright line of light across the coffee table and TV  
> screen.
> Since I have a built-in overflow I cannot adjust the height of the
> teeth. Are the any tricks to raising the water level some without very
> involved modifications?
>
> Thanks.
>
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