Plumbing took for ever this weekend. I tried to plan it all out but once I got under there had to make some changes. I found these nice long 90 degree turn at Lowes. They should help the flow coming from the tank move better with less air getting trapped. I also was going to do only 45 degree fittings on the supply into the tank to reduce flow loss. But after planning it out I would need more than twice as many fittings reducing flow eve more.
Doing a leak test now.
Overall view from the front:
View from the back. The white pipes are supply from the pump. Black is drain. I'm going to power my media reactor from my main pump. Wish I could power my skimmer in the same way. I'm using a 1/2 t to supply the reactor and I have a ball ball to control the flow.
Here you see the drain from the left side. I'm using 2 valves for a reason. First there is a gate valve that allows me to fine tune the flow into the sump. Once I get it tuned I don't want to have to mess with it every time I need to do any form of maintenance. So I added a 2nd ball valve for quick shutoff. Can't shutoff a gate valve quickly.
View from the right side. Same as the left but here you can also see the path out from the pump into the tank. I'm using a check valve on each side of the tank. I could not get away with just one because I'm using my main pump to power media reactor and maybe an algae turf scrubber later down the road. You can't see it I the pic but above each check valve I have another ball valve. This way I can shutoff the water from my tank and clean the check valves regularly.
Here is the main output from the pump. In order to fit I had to use 2 45s to allow me to send the output to a tee with 2 unions on it. The 2 unions was important because it allows me to disconnect the pump with a union right at the pump. The unions above at the tee allow me to swing up the pipes for easier access and for maintenance.
Now for the overflows, this tank has 2 overflows one on each side. Each overflow has a durso pipe & a SCWD splitting the output into 2 vortek flow accelerators.
Pic of the SCWD's. Lots of unions because these guys require regular cleaning in order to work. My kids say they look like T100 Terminators. Found them on each side waiting to play rock and sock me robots.
Let me know what you guys think.
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