plumbing good?

[Otto_VonBacon]

just did my first plumbing job on a sump, want to make sure it's not going to fail on me and spew water everywhere.

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What do you think, got latex tape on the ball valve-to-barb parts... except the one on the intake, just wanted to see how everything would be.

Still need to seal the things to the bulkheads too.

Had same stuff on another thread in the Setup and Filtration forum, but this is more about my plumbing job.

 

[Conner]

You might get some of those metal hose clamps to put on all the ends of that flexible hose. If its going to be under pressure, you want it to be as secure as possible. Plus, they only cost like 67 cents each, and its just a little added insurance, you know?

 

[crowconor]

yeah deffinetly some metal clamps then your good to go...but the flow rate is going to be slower because of the elbows

 

[Otto_VonBacon]

Ok, the thing came with a butt load of plastic clamps, have a few of them on there but i will defiantly look around for the metal ones.

How less efficient will it be because of those elbows?

 

[Conner]

Probably not enough to be really noticeable. You could try redoing it with just the ball valve in a straight run of flexible hose, and that would eliminate most of the "resistance" from the elbows. Probably not going to be much of an issue though, especially if your pump is overrated for your tank. What gph pump is it, and what size tank?

 

[Otto_VonBacon]

Tank is 90 gallons, pump is a Rio 1700 with 642gph.

Didn't buy it separately, came with the whole set. The tank and sump came together.

 

[Conner]

It ought to be fine. If you're really worried about saving a few extra gph, then take out the elbows and just do straight hose with the ball valve, but its probably not going to make a noticeable difference, IMO.

 

[Otto_VonBacon]

Ok cool, thanks for the help Conner.

Will look into those metal clamps.

 

[WeeNe858]

the plastic clamps will do the job fine if you still have some. anywhere a tubing goes onto a barb you wanna clamp to prevent bursting. and if you want to be more simple then just have tubing and get rid of all the elbows which should increase flow and give you more play in the movement. but so far so good. throw on some clamps and youll be fine.

 

[wow_it_esploded]

I would get rid of all of the elbows as they reduce flow (by quite a lot... sometimes up to 1 foot of head pressure!) and give more points for unnecessary leakage. Just go straight from the pump to the valve to the tank. Then I would go straight from the tank to the valve to the sump.