Plumbing Please Help!!!

fish-unit · #1 02/12/2007, 06:11 PM

ok so im getting my tank built today its 1100 long by 500 wide by 650 high

it has a single corner overflow,

now how would you guys plumb it please help i have no idea this is what i have come up with but im sure theres alot better ways of doing it so please any input is apprecitaed as i want to do the plumbing once and do it right

fish-unit · #2 02/12/2007, 06:37 PM

no one?

bertoni · #3 02/12/2007, 06:37 PM

[welcome]

What are the units on those dimensions? Is the tank drilled for a return already?

fish-unit · #4 02/12/2007, 06:41 PM

sorry measurements are in mm

no holes have been drilled

bertoni · #5 02/12/2007, 10:21 PM

I'd be tempted to use a U-tube-like return, to avoid having to drill the tank. Otherwise, remember that when the power goes off, the tank will drain down to the return input level, assuming that's lower than the overflow. You'll need a self-priming pump with that location. I don't know much about return pumps, but I use a submersible, and would likely locate the pump below waterline, if I decided to go external.

Now would be a good time to drill for a closed loop, if you want to use that approach for flow.