BEAN ANIMAL and/or HERBIE show off

Saltwaterwill · Nov 2, 2016

What's up guys I'm ready to do the plumbing on my build...I'm going back and forth with Herbie or bean animal. Please show off your plumbing top and /or bottom of your tanks to help me decide? [emoji854]

Saltwaterwill · Nov 3, 2016

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MaccaPopEye · Nov 4, 2016

I will take some pics of mine when I get home from work in a few hours.

There isn't a choice for me. If there is an option between the two the answer is a bean animal every time.

Herbie is a siphon with an emergency (usually with a trickle going down it).

Bean animal is a siphon, durso and emergency (completely dry emergency).

It is essentially an improved herbie with no downsides.

HiddenUser · Nov 4, 2016

Mr Bean for me!

Drakonis · Nov 4, 2016

Bean animal every time if you have a choice.

MaccaPopEye · Nov 5, 2016

Fell asleep after work lol.

Here is the view from the front:

From the top:

And a side-ish view

Saltwaterwill · Nov 5, 2016

MaccaPopEye said:
Fell asleep after work lol.

Here is the view from the front:

From the top:

And a side-ish view

Lol, quick question, do you put holes on top of both your siphons?

Drakonis · Nov 5, 2016

Lowest one no, its full syphon all the time. the 2nd that is higher does have an air hole and should only flow about 10% of its capacity. the air hole should be plumbed so that if water in overflow rises it gets covered and goes full syphon before water is ever high enough to get to the straight emergency stand pipe.

MaccaPopEye · Nov 6, 2016

Saltwaterwill said:
Lol, quick question, do you put holes on top of both your siphons?

Actually I do have a hole in both the higher and lower drains.

The reason for the hole in the top of the full siphon drain is to help purge air when the return pump turns back on. Without it every now and then on start up a tiny bit of air can get caught in the siphon plumbing and eventually it will build up and the siphon will gurgle until it can flush it out. So a small hole will help get rid of that air. As the water level in the box will be high enough to fully cover the siphon and the hole in the top it wont matter.

The Reef Synergy ghost overflows come with a hole in both and I have seen a few who noticed the build up of air and later drilled a hole in the top of the full siphon to fix it.

MaccaPopEye · Nov 6, 2016

Just one thing I would change is I wouldn't make the partial drain have a "durso" where there is a T and a 90 deg elbow. I would make it exactly the same as the full siphon with 2 90 deg elbows (with a hole on the top) just higher up. As like Drakonis mentioned if the water level raises it should cover the hole in the partial drain and turn that into a siphon but I didn't design mine that way (not intentionally) and stupidly glued it in when it doesn't need to be lol so I can't change it without a lot of effort.