cvtbenhogan
10-29-2010, 01:13 PM
Hi All
Finally I have a decent basement to work with and my plumbing can get more exotic. Baby steps first of course.
Right now and the good news, I've got a 1 inch drain pvc drain pipe and takes out 50% or 60 gallons of water in 10 minutes. Nice and fast, and right into a sump 20 feet away.
Problem is, I'm still using a mag drive pump with a flexible hose to fill the tank. It takes a long time and I'd rather not deal with a this pump in a 50 gal rubbermaid barrell. Hits heaters at the bottom and gets scummy, and don't like the plug arrangement. I think it would be easier to just set up a outside pump that draws water out of the barrell and over to the aquarium. I assume these pumps also can be in bigger sizes and I can better the flow rate than my magdrive.
Proposed Solution. Use a 500 gph little giant type pump and draw out water from my 4 ft 50gl rubbermaid trash can and transfers the water back through a 3/4 inch PVC pipe that travels six feet horizontally and then goes over the back of the tank, approximately 5 ft high. The hose from the trash can to the pump would be flexible and the connection from the pump could be either directly to the pvc line or flexible for the time being.
Does this seem reasonable?? Is 500 gph enough or too much??
:confused:
Finally I have a decent basement to work with and my plumbing can get more exotic. Baby steps first of course.
Right now and the good news, I've got a 1 inch drain pvc drain pipe and takes out 50% or 60 gallons of water in 10 minutes. Nice and fast, and right into a sump 20 feet away.
Problem is, I'm still using a mag drive pump with a flexible hose to fill the tank. It takes a long time and I'd rather not deal with a this pump in a 50 gal rubbermaid barrell. Hits heaters at the bottom and gets scummy, and don't like the plug arrangement. I think it would be easier to just set up a outside pump that draws water out of the barrell and over to the aquarium. I assume these pumps also can be in bigger sizes and I can better the flow rate than my magdrive.
Proposed Solution. Use a 500 gph little giant type pump and draw out water from my 4 ft 50gl rubbermaid trash can and transfers the water back through a 3/4 inch PVC pipe that travels six feet horizontally and then goes over the back of the tank, approximately 5 ft high. The hose from the trash can to the pump would be flexible and the connection from the pump could be either directly to the pvc line or flexible for the time being.
Does this seem reasonable?? Is 500 gph enough or too much??
:confused: