I just pulled my Vertex reactor off of my manifold in the 525xL because a bag of carbon does the same thing for my setup. I realized I have this big manifold under my tank now and I literally have nothing running off of it! Funny how when we plan for all the things that we might need, it never ends up working out quite that way! Im still fighting some algae issues, but the tank is young - it'll work itself out eventually, especially with some focused maintenance. Looks like yours is about in the same place. These tanks should be gems in the months to come
I will be hard piping the return and using a wye connector going up next to the return, I just need to simply the manifold. Especially with the limited space I have to work with, with the current setup I will plan to run at least one reactor. I may look into another reactor with a smaller foot print, the BRS single reactor is a little bigger than I need for 60 gallons of water. I am currently dosing 3ml of the red sea nopox and that added to my algae/bacteria bloom, which has settled down. I know at some point I will add a doser to the system, manually dosing is fine for right now but I will eventually grow tired of the manual dosing.