Plumbing design HELP for my 135

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  1. cuttingras

    cuttingras Starving Artist :)

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    We had an uh oh a few days ago and I've been searching for the answer. No, this had nothing to do with making the video.:) Hubby walked past the wall switch, that also controls the pump, from my sump back to the tank. He hit the switch off(pump off) and the tank flooded the carpet. I thought I had it just right, it always worked for me when I'd test it. Only problem I see might be, I hit and broke one of the return into the tank pipes, with the hood when we installed it. I stuck the pipe back into the hole and hoped that would solve it, but it hasn't. I need help. I'm afraid to go to sleep knowing potentially this tank's water could end up in my living room. I really need a diagram drawn for me of my 135 with how the plumbing is supposed to be, to the tide pool sump/fuge and back to the tank. To where if the power did go out, the tank wouldn't overflow and end up a disaster. Different stand pipes and all. Hubby says he wants to do it right this time so he'll have piece of mind too. TIA!!!!!!!!!!
     
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    Bummer I bet you wish you went with overflows now :(
    Do you have some pics of were the crack in the pipe is top or bottom?
     
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    no not really. it may have cost me 6 bucks and a little time, but I still like the stand pipes I made and I really think they work great. It's the other pipe that broke. The clear one on the left side of the tank. I guess that kind of plastic is not meant for salt water, it was very brittle. I only tapped it when it broke. It broke at the base and I stuck it back into the hole and sand used to blow up from the hole, but I have it stuck to where it doesn't. for now. not real sure if that's where the leak back into the sump, then onto the carpet, came from. It held before I broke it. I would turn the pump off to clean it and it would stop filling the sump at a certain level.
    in this pic it would be the pipe all the way to the left. that comes from the sump and runs to the tank.
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    again.. all the way on the left.
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    the one on the left behind the p.h.
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    does anyone have or can someone take a few pics of their pipes? and the overflow walls and what is the purpose of overflow walls? The way I understand it, the pipes in your tank behind the overflow walls are lower than the walls? I understand the walls would be siliconed to the walls and floor of the tank.