Ted
Seedling
- Joined
- 8 Jan 2014
- Messages
- 24
Hi - I'd love some advice on how to pipe up my 150 gallon river manifold set-up. At a high-level, I'm planning to run two fluval fx6. A traditional manifold runs heavy flow in piping under the substrate. Instead, I'm rounding it behind the tank. Rachel O'Leary set up something similar (great videos if you're interested in this set-up, btw: )
Set-up
You have an intake behind a corner layer of Poret foam that runs through two fluval fx6. They then lead to a single spray bar at the opposite end of the tank.
My main questions are:
1) Can you combine the intake and outflow of 2x filters using a y-bend? Do you give up any flow-rate? Is there a better way of doing this?
2) Do you think a 1" PVC could take the flow of two fluval fx6?
3) Would a combined spray bar capture the same potential flow as 2x separate spray bars?
4) Do you envision any difficulties I missed in the diagram?
Many thanks guys - I'll be sure to post photos.
Set-up
You have an intake behind a corner layer of Poret foam that runs through two fluval fx6. They then lead to a single spray bar at the opposite end of the tank.
My main questions are:
1) Can you combine the intake and outflow of 2x filters using a y-bend? Do you give up any flow-rate? Is there a better way of doing this?
2) Do you think a 1" PVC could take the flow of two fluval fx6?
3) Would a combined spray bar capture the same potential flow as 2x separate spray bars?
4) Do you envision any difficulties I missed in the diagram?
Many thanks guys - I'll be sure to post photos.