Plumbing>sump connection

phallock · 05/16/2006, 04:11 PM

Interested in seeing pictures/diagrams of how your plumbing terminates at your sump. My sump is a 30L and will be divided into skimmer chamber>refugium>return.

I plumbed some 1" PVC but the running water noise is too loud in the pipes that have elbows. I roughed in some spa-flex and it is silent. So I will have three drain lines of 1" spaflex that need to routed to the sump - I will probably put together something out of PVC to make it rigid.

These are the pipes that will be replaced with spa-flex:

northbay-reefer · 05/16/2006, 04:18 PM

you can enclose the first chamber where the water from the tank drains into the sump, this will cut the noise quite abit. I would build a lid and use bulk head fittings.

Blown 346 · 05/16/2006, 04:28 PM

Here is my plumbing.

[IMG] http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/...umbing_pic.jpg [/IMG]

05/16/2006, 04:11 PM	#1
phallock Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Southeast Louisiana Posts: 29	Plumbing>sump connection Interested in seeing pictures/diagrams of how your plumbing terminates at your sump. My sump is a 30L and will be divided into skimmer chamber>refugium>return. I plumbed some 1" PVC but the running water noise is too loud in the pipes that have elbows. I roughed in some spa-flex and it is silent. So I will have three drain lines of 1" spaflex that need to routed to the sump - I will probably put together something out of PVC to make it rigid. These are the pipes that will be replaced with spa-flex:

05/16/2006, 04:18 PM	#2
northbay-reefer Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Wine country Posts: 4,831	you can enclose the first chamber where the water from the tank drains into the sump, this will cut the noise quite abit. I would build a lid and use bulk head fittings. __________________ go BIG or go home Current Tank Info: Tankless :D

05/16/2006, 04:28 PM	#3
Blown 346 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Rockford, Illinois Posts: 6,596	Here is my plumbing. [IMG] http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/...umbing_pic.jpg [/IMG]