Need some Help Quick

[Magyk]

I just put a overflow rated at 600gph going into a 10gal sump with a protein skimmer on one side of the tank there is one pump for the return on it.

On the other side is my 10 gal rufugium with an overflow box also rated at 600gph and another pump for the return.

I'm pretty sure both pumps are rated the same 500 gph
but I can't balance the water levels in both tanks

am I doing something wrong?

 

[cali_reef]

Two pumps will not pump the same amount of water, there are too many variables to affect the actual flow.

 

[nycfatcow]

pics would help.....10 gallon sump is really small!

 

[House of Laughter]

You need to have it all come into one. I tried the "balancing act" for while - all I got was wet carpet.

Pull out and save your aircraft to fly another day!

House

 

[gforce6]

I experienced same thing. You need to plumbed your sump and refugium with one overflow. It is better you buy the 20G and put a baffle to make skimmer chamber, refugium, and return chamber.

 

[Magyk]

so basicly it wont work then and I'm waisting my time

 

[kimoyo]

so basicly it wont work then and I'm waisting my time

No it won't, overflows should drain evenly but pumps will pump a different speeds. So the water level in one will get lower while the water level in the other gets higher.

Can you give us more info on your setup and what your trying to do?

 

[Magyk]

My main tank 75gallon has an overflow on each corner one overflow leads to a refugium with a pump for a return.
Another overflow leads to a sump with another pump returning the water.

Now.......I do have a ball valve on the overflow with the sump..........and the water level han't changed in about 20 minutes...........I think I found the formula with the ball valve........

Or should I just dump it and get a thirty gal and place everything in it

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Or should I just dump it and get a thirty gal and place everything in it

I would go for this unless you are poor like me(at least lately).

 

[kimoyo]

You could drill a hole in the fuge (overflow from fuge to sump) and have it drain into the sump. And then use only one pump pumping from the sump back to the tank.

 

[griMReefer]

it needs to have an overflow, thats the only way to balance.

 

[Magyk]

what is a fuge overflow
or is it a basic overflow that is connected to the fuge and sump?

 

[kimoyo]

an overflow from the fuge that goes to the sump.

 

[herman]

just gravity feed the fuge overflow into the sump.