I did not put gate valves or ball valves on it and regret it. But I got a suction shower basket, drilled holes in the bottom and put floss in it and it cut the sound down so much.
The floss will collect detritus and rot just like the socks.
Ya but I’d rather get all the flow I paid for out of a pump running at 100%. Tune the return, not the output.Controllable DC return pumps sure are nice
Valving a pump back will reduce the wattage. It is not a linear relationship, but it will save a bit.
My pipes are not glued that are hanging over the tank so I can make changes. Do I put a gate valve on both the returns and then the rest of the pipe going down into sump out of the gate valve do you have it going under the water or no? If so how much? then do you crank up the return pump and then how does the gate valve assist me in tuning? New to this stuff. I bought a big return and want to turn it up but I only got it on setting 4 out of 10 so if I can do something to turn it up please help. Also how come currently once I turn the return all the way up it just sucks the return section dry of water faster than it fills?You really ought to have a gate valve on there. Why not add one now? Two snips and a little PVC glue will take you all of 10 minutes to do. Do you have a PVC cutter?
Another work around would be to just cut those pipes closer to the surface of the water so the bubbles diffuse more quickly at the surface instead of crashing into the bottom of your tank and dispersing throughout. They are likely larger bubbles exiting the pipe, but since so close to the bottom they get sheared.
If you really want a floss basket, Eshopps makes a cool rectangle one that might fit both pipes.
On a completely unrelated note - you should really put a cover plate on that outlet. You are asking for a fire…
You likely only need one gate valve, but to help with any of these questions we first need to know what your overflow design is. This article may be very helpful to you: Overflow Boxes and Drain Styles - Durso, Herbie, and BeanAnimal
Okay so I have the durso and it's two separate overflow boxes and they are 1" drain lines. The drain lines are separate and I have two going to my sump. For whatever reason the tank was level but the left side overflow drains more rapidly than the right. But with them being independent lines and overflows, I think I would need a gate valve on each but not sure. Also, I have achieved reducing the bubbling from the videos but it is still there and would like to tune it out due to the bubbling creating a lot of evaporation but more importantly salt creep everywhere down in my sump.
