Jebao DCT9000

[hpimichael02]

Good day everyone,

I'm setting up my 74G tower aquarium, currently I have a pump way to big in both flow and dimensions. So for Xmas my wife bought me a Jebao DCT-9000, ii chose this one because of its head chart about 1200gph give or take a few hundred GPH at 6ft of head.

I plumbed it up yesterday, 1.5" bulkhead reduced to 1"( for current pump) and with a 3/4" out flex straight up for 5.5 feet. got absolutely no flow to the top of the aquarium.

things I'm thinking of doing:
Re plumbing the bulkhead to 1.5" all the way to the pump, to give greater water suction.

This I don't want to do: (LOL)
do you guys think that I have to re plumb the 3/4" flex with 1.5" hard pipe, reduce it at the 3/4" bulkhead and upsize it back to 1" or 1.5" in the overflow box to reduce to 3/4" at the elbow for the loc line?

it has to be external because my sump is to small unless I bulkhead the baffle to "pump" chamber and keep the main pump in the "skimmer section"( I have an external skimmer)

Any advice would be great.

thanks in advance.

 

[Joeganja]

I would add a flow accelerator to your return http://www.marinedepot.com/search#q:flow$2520accelerator so
You don't have to worry about flow.

 

[hpimichael02]

ill look into that, once I get flow to the top of the tank. as of now the pump cant push water into the tank

 

[imjedi76]

the jebao dc-9000 is rated for 2377gph which is plenty of flow for your tank at 6ft. Did you check the controller to increase the flow? I believe default it is set to lowest setting

 

[hpimichael02]

The problem was the controller . It wouldn't select anything higher than level 1. I got a new controller and it's set on level 3 hahah. It's a perfect amount of flow at full power. I would just need to split off the return nozzle into two not one. But the overflow will handle all the flow