![]() The plumbing for this one will come straight up and turn 180 degrees back towards the bottom. I like for the top of it to be about three inches below the top. The second stage of this system is where it starts to diverge from a Bean-Animal (Left of diagram.) This stage will catch all extra water that the first doesn’t, so you want it to be up higher in your overflow housing. On the bottom side of the tank plumb in a ball valve so you can tune it back and be sure to run the plumbing all the way down into the water. The plumbing for this one should just be a strait pipe inside your overflow that only reaches about half way up. Remember that first stage of the Bean-Animal? We will be using the larger of the two holes in your tank to replicate this stage (Right of diagram.) The key to this one is for it to get silent full siphon. Follow these plans, and you can expect to have a system whose noise level and safety are second only to the true Bean-Animal. The Herbie is a system designed to use both the holes in a standard overflow to work as the first two stages of a full Bean-Animal. ![]() The answer is a system called the Herbie. You’re also fairly new to this and don’t feel comfortable drilling a tank or installing a Bean-Animal. The thing your research didn’t yield was the designs of the amazing Bean-animal-overflow, so what do you do now? You don’t want to take your tank back, but it only has one large hole and one smaller hole for overflow and return. Naturally, the tank was one of the first things you purchased, and because you did you research, you purchased one with a built in overflow so you could have a sump. You’ve just started getting equipment for your tank and putting it all together. With that said, let’s go through a common situation for a new reefer. To sum up the Bean-Animal, it is the quietest and safest overflow there is, but it requires three large holes to work which many tanks simply don’t have. This may be hard to grasp with my limited description of it, but this article truly is not meant to describe it in full. It is set higher than the other two, so it will start working if the water level gets too high. The third and final overflow line is only a back-up line. It also has a airline attached to it that allows air into it and starts full siphon if the water level gets too high. This line catches the small amount of remainder flow that the first does not. ![]() The second overflow plumbing line looks the same as the first but without the ball valve. To keep this line from siphoning too fast and creating noise there is a ball valve placed in the plumbing down below to tune it back. As we know full siphon pull water down at the max capacity of the plumbing and in a big hurry. The first of these lines in a sealed PVC line that offers no place for air to get in making it get full siphon. Through these holes run three, yes THREE, overflow lines. The Bean-Animal truly is the best system I’ve ever seen, and I seriously doubt that it will ever be topped.Ī Bean-Animal-Overflow has three holes drilled in the back glass of an aquarium near the top. After running many different types of overflows and getting really annoyed by their noise level and lack of safety features, I began to wonder why the water can’t just go down the plumbing in a quiet and orderly manner.
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