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Thank for thinking it through. The two gaskets were installed on either side of the glass. The water was going into the external box through the bulkhead, which made me think it wasn’t a gasket / instillation issue. But somehow there was water filling the weir box in another way beside the teeth at the top.
I took overflow off the tank and put water in the internal weir box. That held water with no leaks up until the overflow holes. There was not noticeable break or split in the seam on the internal weir box. So no real results on what I found. Perhaps the leak is really small and at or above the bulkhead holes on the weir box.
I’ve reattached things now and am gonna give it another shot. No sure what else I can do?
Threw this on the reef talk section to maybe get a little more traction. Pictures of what I am dealing with on my overflow.
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Heard back from Eshopps and they are sending a replacement internal box. It was not holding water overnight, which was indicative of a leak. I’ll let you know how that process goes.
Few minor updates to plumbing. I realized my manifold would be sending the water the wrong way (grabbing it from the return section and dropping a few chambers up in the sump).
Maybe not a big deal now, but when I plumb my larger tank in, I’d think I’d like my manifold to only have water that didn’t just go through it). This way I’m not treating a higher percentage of water that was just treated.
I’ll be starting my manifold in the skimmer sock section and dropping it the next chamber over where my skimmer is.
Also made a few purchases.
Have 4 - 47” quanta reef helix bars coming. 2 meso blue and 2 reef crest daylight. Those will be going over the low boy.
I decided to hard plumb reactors. One for carbon, which I normally run, and another for gfo or potentially bio pellets. For those I’ll be using bashsea 6-12 reactors with the slip fittings in red. Trying to find some creative ways of mounting those to the wall which I think I have.
Two pumps will be used. An octo varios 2 for the reactors and a 6 for the frag tank and refugium. I’m trying to ensure that I can run the pumps interchangeably like I had before. Likely just more piping needed to connect them with ball valves.
For flow in the frag tank I’m using a gyre xf350.
Still haven’t decided on skimmer. Coralvue’s outlet website has an ice cap k3 200 ovp for about $200. Figured if it worked, it’s the steal of a lifetime. If it doesn’t, I’m not out all that much.
Any thoughts on that skimmer? Seems like most moderately performing skimmers are out of stock. Had my eyes on a deltic 1500i and may wait for that given I don’t even have fish yet.
Lastly, I’m eyeing the icecap 40 watt in sump uv sterilizer. It’s underpowered for the total volume I plan to have, but honestly, don’t know if I want to go with something larger on the wall. Tough shelling out that kind of money where most options seem to have reviews with quality issues.
Any suggestions in that space? I was looking at a 90 watt ice cap, which would be a little over kill, but reviews on it were so so.
Last question. Everytime I see a manifold, it has individual returns to the sump for each tee off it. I completely understand why.
Is there a way to plumb a manifold so that each tee connects back to a single return in the sump without fighting each other? IE two reactors and a UV sterilizer all reconnect to one return?
Few minor updates to plumbing. I realized my manifold would be sending the water the wrong way (grabbing it from the return section and dropping a few chambers up in the sump).
Maybe not a big deal now, but when I plumb my larger tank in, I’d think I’d like my manifold to only have water that didn’t just go through it). This way I’m not treating a higher percentage of water that was just treated.
I’ll be starting my manifold in the skimmer sock section and dropping it the next chamber over where my skimmer is.
Also made a few purchases.
Have 4 - 47” quanta reef helix bars coming. 2 meso blue and 2 reef crest daylight. Those will be going over the low boy.
I decided to hard plumb reactors. One for carbon, which I normally run, and another for gfo or potentially bio pellets. For those I’ll be using bashsea 6-12 reactors with the slip fittings in red. Trying to find some creative ways of mounting those to the wall which I think I have.
Two pumps will be used. An octo varios 2 for the reactors and a 6 for the frag tank and refugium. I’m trying to ensure that I can run the pumps interchangeably like I had before. Likely just more piping needed to connect them with ball valves.
For flow in the frag tank I’m using a gyre xf350.
Still haven’t decided on skimmer. Coralvue’s outlet website has an ice cap k3 200 ovp for about $200. Figured if it worked, it’s the steal of a lifetime. If it doesn’t, I’m not out all that much.
Any thoughts on that skimmer? Seems like most moderately performing skimmers are out of stock. Had my eyes on a deltic 1500i and may wait for that given I don’t even have fish yet.
Lastly, I’m eyeing the icecap 40 watt in sump uv sterilizer. It’s underpowered for the total volume I plan to have, but honestly, don’t know if I want to go with something larger on the wall. Tough shelling out that kind of money where most options seem to have reviews with quality issues.
Any suggestions in that space? I was looking at a 90 watt ice cap, which would be a little over kill, but reviews on it were so so.
Last question. Everytime I see a manifold, it has individual returns to the sump for each tee off it. I completely understand why.
Is there a way to plumb a manifold so that each tee connects back to a single return in the sump without fighting each other? IE two reactors and a UV sterilizer all reconnect to one return?
Couple pictures of some progress. Lots of goodies to install.
The first two are going to be shelves for dozers and equipment. They’re also going to hold my two media reactors. They’re bolted into studs of the wall and you can see how the clips will hold / support the plumbing of each reactor.
Got my two pumps, heater controls, ato, frag tank pumps, ect. Apex will be here Tuesday.
Also met a local reefer selling a lot of equipment. Upgraded my pumps to varios 8’s and picked up 4 phillips coral care gen 2’s for when I build the bigger tank upstairs. For now I’ll be using the quanta helix bars. Waiting on a new 3d printed stand to arrive next week.
Also picked up a cheap grow light for my fuge below. Still waiting to hear back from eshopps about my replacement overflow they should be sending.
The first two are going to be shelves for dozers and equipment. They’re also going to hold my two media reactors. They’re bolted into studs of the wall and you can see how the clips will hold / support the plumbing of each reactor.
Got my two pumps, heater controls, ato, frag tank pumps, ect. Apex will be here Tuesday.
Also met a local reefer selling a lot of equipment. Upgraded my pumps to varios 8’s and picked up 4 phillips coral care gen 2’s for when I build the bigger tank upstairs. For now I’ll be using the quanta helix bars. Waiting on a new 3d printed stand to arrive next week.
Also picked up a cheap grow light for my fuge below. Still waiting to hear back from eshopps about my replacement overflow they should be sending.
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I have the K3-130 on my current setup and also have the K3-160 that I purchased for future dream tank and the thing is a beast! Only slight issues is the OVP design that is more efficient for skimmers is a little loud compared to some other DC skimmers but I have so much noise with phyto and pods with the air lines it doesn't bother me. Definitely shouldn't be an issue with you sump on another room and you cannot beat the price!
I actually bought a backup pump as that was only $40-$50 and figured I have two DC skimmers and a backup pump for less than the cost of most DC skimmers!
Love that. I heard a little that the ovp design may be a little louder. All good with that for the price!
It's definitely louder than other skimmers I have used but it's not too bad and the price is amazing!
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