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    Posted: April 26 2009 at 12:25pm
Anyone have a diagram of their plumbing? I am about to start plumbing mine and just want to make sure that i don't miss anything that is an easy add on now instead of a hard add on later...any advise would be great as well what you would add and what you would take out. Thanks
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what are you trying to do and what are you plumbing and if you dont come get this skimmer i am going to throw it away
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hey ill come get it soon and yeah i dunno but yeah
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well how can we help you do some plumbing if you dont even know what you are doing are you just trying to set up your sump or what
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well i am going to be getting that 125 and so i wanted to start planning the plumbing so i can get all the kinks worked out before hand and that way maybe i can set it up and have is cycling by the time my house is about done.....i hope....
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one thing i would do different would be to use gate valves instead of ball valves and i would save up to get some vortechs instead of the korilas
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You can come and look at my 125 and I can show you what
I did.
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Best quality in the valley! He is one sexy bald guy, even with out a finger!(MAC)
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This site may be of assistance.  He documents pretty well with nice pics, mostly about sumps though, but he has a lot of plumbing shots and recommendations.

http://www.melevsreef.com/allmysumps.html

And it's just one sweet site.
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Principles of basic aquarium plumbing apply.
 
You want your lines to be as short, straight and direct as possible to increase efficiency of flow.  You can always restrict your flow down, but you have to re-plumb to expand.  Be generous with your pump selection.
 
Use the largest pipe that you can work well with.  1.25" diameter pvc has about 2x the capacity as a 1" pipe.
 
Be sure to glue your joints.
Include places for disconnect joints for maintenance
Being able to shut off any one line is a good thing.
Plan your electrical and plumbing to co-exist in peace
Gate valves to prevent back flow
 
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I would plan out your plumbing and post it here.  Then you can get some feedback.  I would highly recommend reading The Reef Aquarium volume 3 by Delbeek and Sprung (at least the chapter on plumbing).
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I am looking at doing this type of over flow on a 90 with a 30 gal. sump. Matbe you would like to take a look?
Has anybody else done this and if so, how well does it work?
http://www.beananimal.com/projects/silent-and-fail-safe-aquarium-overflow-system.aspx
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Nano_reefer
I run that type of a system. Except for the Open Channel Standpipe. I have never had a problem. It runs very quiet and is easy to control.
 
Here is a pic right after I set it up. Both tanks are running on different sumps.


Edited by pickensw - April 27 2009 at 4:05pm
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What size hole was drilled in the tank? I am looking at getting a glass hole saw.
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that is what i did on my 224 and love it my wife does not even hear the tank even without a hood
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