noisy overflow
 

My overflow is noisy as heck. The water "gurgling" keeps me up at
night. Any suggestions on how to silence it?

"Juan Valdez" wrote in message
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My overflow is noisy as heck. The water "gurgling" keeps me up at
night. Any suggestions on how to silence it?

search on google groups for durso standpipe

"Charles Spitzer" wrote in
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| "Juan Valdez" wrote in message
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| My overflow is noisy as heck. The water "gurgling" keeps me up
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| night. Any suggestions on how to silence it?
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| search on google groups for durso standpipe
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Correct. In the meantime, you can get a length of 3/8 vinyl tubing,
(about 18" to start) and insert it down the drain. It may take a day
or so to find the 'sweet spot', but this will cut down the gurgle.

buy the sponge filter for an aquaclear 500. cut in half. shove in overflow.
enjoy the silence.

"DMGauto1" wrote in message
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| buy the sponge filter for an aquaclear 500. cut in half. shove in
overflow.
| enjoy the silence.

I did this for a while, but grew weary of my sump going dry because
the sponge was clogging.

Plus, the skimmer can't catch what never passes the skimmer.

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"Billy" wrote in message
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"DMGauto1" wrote in message
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| buy the sponge filter for an aquaclear 500. cut in half. shove in
overflow.
| enjoy the silence.

I did this for a while, but grew weary of my sump going dry because
the sponge was clogging.

true Very true

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"Benjamin" wrote in message
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Plus, the skimmer can't catch what never passes the skimmer.

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"Billy" wrote in message
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"DMGauto1" wrote in message
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| buy the sponge filter for an aquaclear 500. cut in half. shove in
overflow.
| enjoy the silence.

I did this for a while, but grew weary of my sump going dry because
the sponge was clogging.

after mine ran for a couple of months the gurgling pretty much stopped. I
am assuming a nice slick slime coat built up on the plumbing and hoses, but
I don't know for sure. All I know is that it no longer gurgles.

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what a skimmer catches is much finer then what anysponge can catch... long
strain proteins will continue to remain disolved in the water regardless of any
mechanical filtration, otherwise we'd all just have powerfilters instead of
protein skimmers