joelradding
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Jul 15, 2015
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I built an overflow for a turtle tank and it works for a while but after about 2 hours the siphon fails. The inlet pipe is only about 5 or six inches from the bottom of the tank as there is a shallow water level. Here is a rough diagram of the overflow as an attachment in word. If I suck air out of the utube going over the tank wall the siphon starts up again and runs fine for awhile, but air seems to accumulate in the utube breaking the siphon. The inflow from the pump in the sump is next to the overflow but pointed away from it. However bubbles may be getting inside the overflow from the inflow and breaking siphon. Any thoughts on this to correct this problem and get the siphoning effect to be continuous?