HELP!!!! Calling all plumbers

[sMEGhEAD]

Just got the new (used) tank in my garage.
see if any of you can figure this bad boy out!!!!

i need to do some touchup work.

This may give some of you a giggle. this is the way it used to be done 10 years ago.

[sMEGhEAD]

Is there too much flow going through the refuge? 1100 GPH roughly

[sMEGhEAD]

I have everything but the lights for the fuge and the SQWD

[Krux]

i would run 2 drains to the sump, and one to the fuge... that is imho too much flow for a refugium.

personally, even with check valves, i am 100% against the idea of having a return through the bottom. there are enough instances of check valve failure that it is begging for a tank draining onto your floor disaster scenario. you can use the holes, but it should ONLY be done in a closed loop setup where in a power outage there is no chance of a draining accident.

[sMEGhEAD]

I've closed looped everything
luckily i have enough pumps for all this.

When this is all plumbed i may need help getting this in my living room!

[wanareef]

I would not hook up the ro/di directly for top off - there was something on RC about the constant cycling of the ro/di that "passed" unfiltered water thru and on another thread, Dallas/Fortworth club one of the gals had it hooked up as you wanted, the water company was cleaning out the pipes with chlorine - lost the tank. Here some reading on the ro/di cycling - lots of reading but informative http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...hreadid=553571 He circumvented this by having the ro/di unit fill a "holdoing" tank then from this fill the sump as topoff.

I'm with R1 on those "bottom" holes - just use for a CL and you won't have to worry about flooding or draining the tank.

hth