pump question
You CANNOT put an aquarium type pump ABOVE the water. The water has to flow into it all on its own - by gravity. The test is if you were to take the tubing off of the pump’s discharge with the pump turned off, would water continue to run out of the pump. If not, it will not work.
And you cannot run a suction line up and over something. Any suction line must be plumbed so that: if there was air anywhere in the line, it will escape all on its own out one end or the other (with the pump off. So a straight pipe with either end higher will work. A tubing in a “v” or “U” shape will work. But an upside down “V” will NOT work. (such as trying to suck water thru a piece of tubing that goes up from inside the water, over the edge, and down to a pump. Won’t work.
:-)
Bill
Category: Philippines Internet Koi Society
