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How do I make my overflow quiet

mac96

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I tried multiple things like in the pictures but I couldn’t get it to be really quite any other ideas or am I doing something wrong? the beananimal keeps making bubbles in the sump
 

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Looks like you only have two drains so you can’t run a bean animal overflow.

Is that all the water that’s going into your external overflow? I use a strainer in my primary overflow so it doesn’t make a “tornado” of air and make the gurgling noise. You should close your gate valve more to get more water in there so it doesn’t draw so much air
 
You have a gate valve on the drain that’s all the way at the bottom?
If so close it until the level rises to where you get the smallest trickle through the higher pipe you can
 
It's a external overflow with main drain and emergency drain (Herbie). You need a gate valve plumbed into the main drain (lower of the 2 in the box) as low to the sump as possible and close the gate to limit the flow and have the water just below the emergency drain in the external overflow box.
 
Looks like you only have two drains so you can’t run a bean animal overflow.

Is that all the water that’s going into your external overflow? I use a strainer in my primary overflow so it doesn’t make a “tornado” of air and make the gurgling noise. You should close your gate valve more to get more water in there so it doesn’t draw so much air
I can get the water to flow fast I have my return pump on the lowest setting that’s all
 
It's an external overflow with main drain and emergency drain (Herbie). You need a gate valve plumbed into the main drain (lower of the 2 in the box) as low to the sump as possible and close the gate to limit the flow and have the water just below the emergency drain in the external overflow box.
I do have that valve so it’s good everyone is telling to do that so I’ll play with it a little
 
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