Paddlefoot
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Feb 8, 2011
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Hey guys any advise on overflow box
Fishguy2727 said:Ditto Eshopps. I did make some mods to mine though. I don't have any mechanical filtration in my whole system so I ditched the prefilter sponge. To quiet it down I changed the drain from just an open pipe to a capped pipe with a hole cut in the side. The cap has a tiny air vent hole drilled in it, no more slurping sound. I did not use their tubing, I hard plumbed it to just dump in the first section of my sump.
i like the CPR overflows also, and i think the aqualifter pump is a plus, not a minus. you just have to replace them yearly, and they are under 20 bucks.I have a CPR OF box and its only downfall is the lift pump, other then that the OF itself runs silent. No modifications needed.
I cut the pipe that comes with it and put a PVC T on it and cut of the bottome of the tee so it is basically a pipe with a hole in the side. On top of that is a PVC cap with a tiny hole drilled in it. This lets air in quietly so you don't get any gurgle noise. This lets full drain without noise.
I also painted the U tube black so algae wouldn't grow inside it.