Help with new sump

[JurisHP]

I am replacing my Synergy Reef sump with a Bashsea. The Synergy sump has 2 inlets (bulkheads) to accommodate each of the overflow hoses. I just got my Bashsea, and they only have one inlet. Apparently, the "second generation eliminated 2 inlets." So the advice I got from Bashsea (excellent customer service), was to tie together the 2 hoses with a T fitting, which will fit into the one inlet.

Can anyone explain how to accomplish this? Where do I get such a T fitting?

Thanks!

 

[mtraylor]

I am replacing my Synergy Reef sump with a Bashsea. The Synergy sump has 2 inlets (bulkheads) to accommodate each of the overflow hoses. I just got my Bashsea, and they only have one inlet. Apparently, the "second generation eliminated 2 inlets." So the advice I got from Bashsea (excellent customer service), was to tie together the 2 hoses with a T fitting, which will fit into the one inlet.

Can anyone explain how to accomplish this? Where do I get such a T fitting?

Thanks!

personally I would not run a sump with just one inlet if you have 2 drains. I would exchange the Bashsea for one with 2 drains or cut another one it there. The redundancy is well worth it and you could run herbie setup and get rid of those hoses and hard plumb. JMO.

You can hard plumb and get everything from home depot.

 

[JoshH]

Do you run a Herbie drain currently or a Bean Animal???

If you run a Herbie I would personally recommend like above to not T your drains together... which is rather poor advice and poor customer service if you ask me. You can hard plumb your drains and plumb the main siphon into the inlet of the bashsea and run the secondary drain into another area of the sump...

 

[JurisHP]

Do you run a Herbie drain currently or a Bean Animal???

If you run a Herbie I would personally recommend like above to not T your drains together... which is rather poor advice and poor customer service if you ask me. You can hard plumb your drains and plumb the main siphon into the inlet of the bashsea and run the secondary drain into another area of the sump...

Not sure what my drain is. I’ve got a 180 with 2 overflows on the back — one on the left and one on the right.

 

[JurisHP]

personally I would not run a sump with just one inlet if you have 2 drains. I would exchange the Bashsea for one with 2 drains or cut another one it there. The redundancy is well worth it and you could run herbie setup and get rid of those hoses and hard plumb. JMO.

You can hard plumb and get everything from home depot.

Can you explain in more detail how to plumb this sump?

 

[mtraylor]

Sure. Your aquarium has 2 overflows. One of the right and one of the left. I would hard plumb the drains independently to the sump with 1" Pvc or whatever size you have. Since the drains are on opposite sides of the aquarium, this makes it allot easier. If you decide to keep the same sump that you have. I dont know what it looks like....but you could take one to the drain on the sump and the other to say a refugium if you have one. That would work nice.

I think you may want to decide on what setup you are going to go with first then hard plumb the drains. Throw those vacuum hoses away. You will be better off.