Plumbing advice/suggestions

[LoneStar Reefer]

Need some input on this drain setup... all 1" drains with a hebrie style over flow. Valves are set up on my full siphon. Tees off to my filter sock and to my refugium. Any suggestions?

 

[Brian W]

If it's not too late I would personally change your ball valve on your main drain pipe to a gate valve like these. They are expensive but you can make finer adjustments to them and control your water level in your overflow box. I've never really used ball valves that much so can't speak for all of them but the cheaper ones I've used from Home Depot get stuck after a while and weren't easy to adjust.

 

[TX_REEF]

Make sure your drain outlets are below the water line. What questions do you have?

 

[Brian W]

Make sure your drain outlets are below the water line. What questions do you have?

Definitely this too. Or else you will have water splashing everywhere and salt all over everything.

 

[SPSDomination]

If it's not too late I would personally change your ball valve on your main drain pipe to a gate valve like these. They are expensive but you can make finer adjustments to them and control your water level in your overflow box. I've never really used ball valves that much so can't speak for all of them but the cheaper ones I've used from Home Depot get stuck after a while and weren't easy to adjust.

These are deff the way to go if you want to reduce noise and fine tune. As mentioned they arent cheap but they are worth every penny. They also arent impossibly hard to turn like the standard home depot ball valves.

 

[PharmrJohn]

Just make sure you can disconnect your plumbing at multiple points so you can easily add, subtract and modify your set up with future projects. When I plumb my sump, I'll have the ability to remove the plumbing in a New York second if I need to get my sump outta there. In addition, I'll have release points lower down in case I decide to add a piece of equipment or two. I know......more leak potential......I'll just have to make sure I tighten things down!

 

[LoneStar Reefer]

If it's not too late I would personally change your ball valve on your main drain pipe to a gate valve like these. They are expensive but you can make finer adjustments to them and control your water level in your overflow box. I've never really used ball valves that much so can't speak for all of them but the cheaper ones I've used from Home Depot get stuck after a while and weren't easy to adjust.

I totally agree... imma try these out. They are a little nicer than the regular ball valves and turn very nice. As for adjusting the flow, I've used cheap ball valves before on a 300 gallon setup and it work perfect. Never really had any issues. I'll try it on this tank and see what happens. Thanks for the advice!

 

[LoneStar Reefer]

Definitely this too. Or else you will have water splashing everywhere and salt all over everything.

Yes I will have to add my shorter pieces in so they won't splash and reduce noise.

 

[LoneStar Reefer]

Make sure your drain outlets are below the water line. What questions do you have?

Just trying to seek some advice and see what this T off the full siphon drain will really do. Maybe a better way to do it? Nothing is glued yet just dry fitting to see what I like.

 

[Brian W]

I totally agree... imma try these out. They are a little nicer than the regular ball valves and turn very nice. As for adjusting the flow, I've used cheap ball valves before on a 300 gallon setup and it work perfect. Never really had any issues. I'll try it on this tank and see what happens. Thanks for the advice!

Also I like to use the threaded gate valve vs the slip x slip, and 1 schedule 80 male pipe adapter on each side of the gate valve. This way I can reuse the gate valve if I need to on a different tank. Otherwise the slip gate valve is glued to your pvc. There's ways to get reuse it after its been glued but a pain In my opinion.

 

[LoneStar Reefer]

Also I like to use the threaded gate valve vs the slip x slip, and 1 schedule 80 male pipe adapter on each side of the gate valve. This way I can reuse the gate valve if I need to on a different tank. Otherwise the slip gate valve is glued to your pvc. There's ways to get reuse it after its been glued but a pain In my opinion.

I have ran into sooo many setups that have glue gate valves into place and you can never reuse them. Get 1 try with a 80$ fitting. This is a great way to get way more life out of them. And if you wanna change things up.

 

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[Dburr1014]

Just trying to seek some advice and see what this T off the full siphon drain will really do. Maybe a better way to do it? Nothing is glued yet just dry fitting to see what I like.

I don't know anybody that has had a tee off the main drain. I think it should be one line to the sump. Then you can have your Emergency Drain to the other sock.