Ok, so I've picked up a new marine tank before I've even got fish in my other one.
Its 35.5W x 13.5 H x 16 D, 130L, predrilled, 10mm glass, never been used.
Being my first predrilled tank, I need a bit of advice, currently one of the fittings is water tight, and one isn't.
When I first put it together they both leaked around the thread, they have washers inside and out, I've added thread tape, but one still leaks. However the fitting that doesn't leak also rotates slightly through both nuts - not sure if that would be good on a full tank.
I'm thinking I should silicon the nut inside the tank to the thread so it cant leak?
The other thing I'm not too sure about is where I should be taking the water "from". If I'm using it just connected to a canister filter, I shouldn't think it would be a problem if the power goes out, but if I'm using a sump (I play on making a DIY sump), how do I stop the whole tank draining out down to the level of the pipe?
The only thing I can think of here is to extend the pipe up to just below the water level.
Should I also be adding an elbow to the return to move the water around, or will internal power heads take care of this?
Basically, how would you set this up if it was your tank
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You can see the right hand fitting is wet....
Its 35.5W x 13.5 H x 16 D, 130L, predrilled, 10mm glass, never been used.
Being my first predrilled tank, I need a bit of advice, currently one of the fittings is water tight, and one isn't.
When I first put it together they both leaked around the thread, they have washers inside and out, I've added thread tape, but one still leaks. However the fitting that doesn't leak also rotates slightly through both nuts - not sure if that would be good on a full tank.
I'm thinking I should silicon the nut inside the tank to the thread so it cant leak?
The other thing I'm not too sure about is where I should be taking the water "from". If I'm using it just connected to a canister filter, I shouldn't think it would be a problem if the power goes out, but if I'm using a sump (I play on making a DIY sump), how do I stop the whole tank draining out down to the level of the pipe?
The only thing I can think of here is to extend the pipe up to just below the water level.
Should I also be adding an elbow to the return to move the water around, or will internal power heads take care of this?
Basically, how would you set this up if it was your tank
?You can see the right hand fitting is wet....
