Tank plumbing

[drewcrew22]

So just wrapped up plumbing my first tank. I have not glued anything into place yet, I wanted to get some thoughts and opinions on everything from more experienced people if it looks right, if I missed anything etc please let me know what you think.

 

[drewcrew22]

 

[drewcrew22]

 

[mfinn]

If the tall pipe in the overflow box is your emergency drain ( herbie), take the cap off.
Run the drains down further into the sump.
I would run the return pvc down into the water, and then use a loc-line attachment ( fan or round end)

 

[mfinn]

I guess it was the emergency drain that ended kind of high.
I would lower it a little.

 

[drewcrew22]

I guess it was the emergency drain that ended kind of high.
I would lower it a little.

This was the way I was walked through to do it. Thoughts?

As far as a return goes, I’m going to do over the rim return as the pictures show I have braided tubing running into ridged pvc I keep seeing each 90 adds 1 ft of head it takes 3 to get over the rim. Is there another way to limit this

 

[mfinn]

Once glued, I would do a 48 hour ( at least) freshwater test. That way you can find those little points that didn't work as planned and have time to change them. Plus you can make sure there are no leaks.

 

[drewcrew22]

Leak test failed found a leak at the 3/4”-1” barb fitting. I did swap to a durso though it seems like I’ve got everything right idk I’m second guessing myself with everything

 

[mfinn]

I don't know how much noise is coming from the drains as you have them set up in the video, but if this were me, I would remove the 90's from the main drain, shorten it so it's 4"-6" shorter than the emergency drain, and put a strainer on it.
With a "gate valve" on the main drain you would have the Herbie drain which you can make totally silent.
Like you had before.
Not sure why you swapped it out?

 

[1ocean]

Looking at your video.
Do you plan to have the return pipe as it is in the video above the tank water line?
If so you going to have a lot of salt creep on the edge of the tank from all the splashing.
Just my thought.
To avoid this I would add a small piece of pipe from the return line to go about 1/2 inch below the water line..
You can put a pvc grate on it to avoid fish etc into the pipe.