One thing I notice in your picture. You put your bulkheads in your cans with the long side out. I just finished building 2 cans like this plumbed up, but i put the bulk head the other way long part into the can. Was there logic to this? I finally got mine to stop leaking by putting "amazing goop" on the outside seem. Would it not have leaked you think if i did it your way?
Here's the set up I just finished. I have the finished side of the bulkhead on the outside as well. I had a leaking issue at the beginning, but when I switched the rubber gasket from the inside to the outside all (4) bulkheads stopped leaking. I guess I just figured the gasket should be on the water side. Who knew??????!!!!!!:thumbs:
That's exactly what I thought. The reason I put it on this way is sort of strange................... I'm a designer and I wanted to make sure it looked nice!!!!!!
Now I have the best of both worlds! It looks nice, but best of all it WORKED!:yay:Actually it is because the water can enter the threads of the bulkhead and follows them to the side without a gasket. The gasket needs to be next to the flange regardless of it's placement(wet or dry side)
mojo;694994 wrote: Quoting myself from another thread:
Partitioned my 300g sump to have a 100g chamber, separate from the rest. WC partition is on the left in this picture, with the rubber ducky in it:
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Add 100g of fresh water, two bags of salt, allow to mix, and my WC water is ready to go. On my sump side, I have a Iwaki pump plumbed in that goes direct to the sewer line.
So I turn on the Iwaki until it hits a float valve, then turn on a Mag to dump over the water change water. Voila - 100g water change without turning anything off or measuring any salt.
Simplicity is the key to doing water changes. Of all the setups I've done, this is by far the best one I've used - especially since the WC volume is exactly two bags of IO boxed salt. Obviously, you could do the same thing with a 50g container...
