What are the advantages/disadvantages of each for use in plumbing a sump? The obvious is that flexible pipe will be easier to do....one piece of tube for the drain and one piece for the return. However, is there something I'm missing? Is rigid better for some reason?
Flexible or Rigid
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watercrawl;4526333; said:
Rigid pipe gives a cleaner look in some cases and doesn't require as much strapping. Also, flex pipe uses insert fittings which reduce the flow, so a given size of rigid pipe will flow more than the same size of flexible tubing.
I've been told that vertical rigid pipe will have a lot of water noise as it washes down and hits bottom. With flex pipe the ridges break up the flow somewhat.
I have recently aquired: 2 - 100 gallon tanks, 2 - 40 gallon breeders, & 6 - 20 gallon high aquariums. I wanted to put all these on a super sump running a pond pump and was wondering if I could use felx for some of the more curvy and difficult portions as well. This thread has been very helpful.
