this overflow is great, but with my 6ft tank i need 2 of them, however i find that this isn't so great in collecting gunk thats near the bottom of the tank.
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its seems cool but would it stop siphoning when the power goes out since its sucking water from the bottom?
It actually does siphon. The overflow action causes the out tube to fill with water. So, there's no worries about it continuing to siphon. The top is open, so there is no siphon.
Read the first page, all these pages are the same questions being asked over and over and over again. If page one doesnt have page 2-5 deffently will, sorry if this seems harsh if people would do even just a bit of looking by themselves without asking for help at at every question i almost bet this thread would be atleast 10 pages shorter. Sorry if it seems like im taking it all out on you its just complete lazyness on everyones part now. Also to answer your question its a check valve they use it to get the remaining air out of the loop.hatorihanzoe;1226041; said:
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It's a check valve. It allows you to suck the air out of the top of the tube to make the siphon flow.
OMG I finally finished reading through this entire thread and I finally understand how the water flows over that first loop! I'm going to get the supplies tomorrow and begin building shortly after. Thanks a whole lot everyone for your posts, especially chomper w/ your insane amount of responses. If everything goes well I'll have two 1" overflows set up for my 110 gallon.
