[This post is a follow-up to (there was a url link here which no longer exists) earlier in this thread. -Ken]
I'd love to see a picture, having some trouble visualizing all the details.
Well I never did find someone with a digital imaging thingie. I don't have one. The wife doesn't either - she hates the look of digital pictures. She has a cell phone with a 2-Mp, but no memory card to get the images out. My son doesn't own one. The neighbor kid did, but it broke after only moderate use.
So I did the next best thing. I plopped the contraption upside down onto the scanner glass and taped some white paper sheets around it for a non-black background. Not ideal, but there it is.
The attached image is looking down into the tank. Water passes through the right-hand wall. Once inside there is a right-angle nylon fitting that points straight down to another straight fitting which passes through the bottom. The two fittings are vertically connected by a small, flexible tube, same as the hose tubing.
There is a watertight void beneath the visible tank bottom that was created when I epoxied an additional plastic sheet over the original outside recessed tank bottom underneath.
The water accumulates in that void beneath the visible bottom in this image, then wells up through the (blurred) holes you can see drilled in the bottom. (They're really not oval, just a scanner artifact.)
The water then rises between each film sheet held in those curved guides visible inside the upper and lower interior walls and spills out over the top. The effect is sort of like a mini-archival print washer, but without a siphon or a drain.
Hope this helps visualize things.
Ken