Haha easier said than done.
I was just one tiny tiny droplet an hour of a leak from not even dealing with this mess.
Without my canopy lights on due to needing to have them off to work I get a reflection using my flashlight.
I had read about even little nothing particles causing leaks so I can't really see well.
SO I took out the return because it is not glued at all so I can take even the bulkhead out.
This way I could get a better view of the water flowing into the tanks bulkhead.
No luck seeing anything so what I did was removed the thin nut that holds it on and pulled it up as far as I could and tried to move the seal around. I couldn't rinse it out because I had no help nor could I catch all the water. It is late and people are sleeping nearby.
Well I ended up re-tightening it till my had got a blister(from tightening and loosening 8000 times) and this time it had a tiny droplet so I got out a flathead and wrench and took a chance of waking people up and turned it like an 1/8 to a 1/4 more and no leak.
By the way I slapped the lights back on an there is something between the glass and o Ring but it is like white and thin.
Right now I just have the sump hooked up(Aqueon Proflex 2) and a Mag 9.5 water pump with 2 Aqueon Circulation Pumps Model 950. They are a new product seen here -
Aqueon Circulation Pumps | Power Heads | PetSolutions
They work great and you really or actually I don't even hear them.
So I just have regular tap water running to do leak checks but the truth is that when I do the salt I am going to put another new set of bulkheads in. This way the seals a fresh again and I will scrub the glass in there. I never really did and when I started leak check there was a ton of crud that I scraped floating around that I missed with the vac the 3 times I filled and drained.
The socks in the sump are kind of dirty as is now after 2 days of running.
I am actually happy with the way it looks hooked up. I did a pretty clean install and put the valve up in the back with those c looking clamps with the screw on top and bottom.
I was like man it looks professional but it has a novice leak haha.
Anyway it is overall silent to me. The loudest sound is the water coming out of the hole in the return PVC to stop it from flooding.
I did take pix but I have not posted them yet but I will.
Thanks for the info I figured that was the case.
