How to remove drain input from Trigger sumps

ordinaryreef · Jun 22, 2025

Hi - sorry if this sounds dumb, but I don’t have a lot of experience with plumbing and am not sure what I am looking at. I plumbed my Emerald Trigger sump about 9 years ago and haven’t thought about it since. I am thinking about replacing it, but am trying to figure out how to remove the inputs. Do they twist out, unscrew, or pop out from underneath?
I have 1” pipes feeding into the inputs. I tried looking on Trigger’s website, but can’t find anything relevant. Thanks in advance.

Catawba_Valley_Reef · Jun 22, 2025

The bottom pipe should unscrew. The top piece won’t unscrew if you glued the pvc pipe into it.

ordinaryreef · Jun 22, 2025

Catawba_Valley_Reef said:
The bottom pipe should unscrew. The top piece won’t unscrew if you glued the pvc pipe into it.

Thanks, I was afraid of that. The layout of the inlets is just terrible and I made a couple of bad decisions when I placed the sump. Looks like I may need do it the hard way and make sure I do better for the next 10 years. Reply is much appreciated.