'plumbing' my canister into my stand...

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Moloch

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So I just acquired another rena xp3 but had to buy replacement hoses for it. I just went and got regular clear 3/4x5/8 hose from lowes. Its working fine except that my intake hose kinked over at the quick-disconnect sometime last night so when I woke up I had no water flow. Right now I've got it temporarily rigged...put a small nail in the back of the stand and zip-tied the hose to that so it has a straight shot down to the filter.

Here's what I'm thinking, its pretty simple (and might be asinine) Its a 55g (48") tank with the xp3 sitting in the far right side of the stand, intake on the left output on the right.

The output already has a straight shot to the filter so I'd leave it alone. For the intake, I'm thinking I could attached a straight piece of PVC across the back of the stand with a 90* below the intake & above the output. Then its just two short & straight pieces of hose between those. Would I get waterfall noise from that?

The other, simpler option would just be to get the little clamps I can screw into the stand and route the hose where it needs to go in order to not get kinked.
 
Either way will work. When I hard plumbed mine, I used the hose for the straight shot and then everything else was plumbed with PVC.
 
Do you mean reverse of what I described? I'm saying straight PVC horizontal across the back of the stand, straight hose vertically down & up to the pvc.

Is there any real reason to do this?
 
I think either will work. I have my two canisters plumed with pvc with a couple of short tubes for the connections. You shouldn't get the waterfall sound. If you do then there is still air in the lines that needs to come out.
 
^ thats what I figured. I know its a common complain with PVC overflows, but I assume they operate a little different and don't have a vacuum siphon running through the lines.

Now I just gotta decide....would doing this actually benefit me at all? Or should I just secure the hose in place in such a way that it doesn't kink again. It should only cost 10$ or less (depending on how much the pieces to attach the pvc to the stand cost) so I suppose I may as well go for it...
 
Moloch;4637232; said:
^ thats what I figured. I know its a common complain with PVC overflows, but I assume they operate a little different and don't have a vacuum siphon running through the lines.

Now I just gotta decide....would doing this actually benefit me at all? Or should I just secure the hose in place in such a way that it doesn't kink again. It should only cost 10$ or less (depending on how much the pieces to attach the pvc to the stand cost) so I suppose I may as well go for it...
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I think it all depends on the level of effort that you want to put into it and your budget.
 
Well...budget is really tight at the moment. This probably wouldn't happen either way for a little while.

But if I do ever do it...PVC is like 2$ for 5', more than enough. Then two 90* elbows at about $.50 a piece, I've already got the hose. Then the little metal fasteners that would screw into the stand....I can't see it costing even ten dollars OR taking all that much effort? Unless there's some other, crazier thing I can do.

I guess the benefit would be a cleaner setup, no chance of developing a kink in the hose...?
 
Haha...well honestly I might do it just for that:p

Here's an idea I just had sitting here looking at the tanks...as far as waterflow.

I'm using the jet-nozzle attachment in the 55 instead of the spraybar on the xp3, and I'm going to have an aqua-clear 50 (actually an askoll 402, same thing just old) powerhead in the tank as well. My heater is going to be (tomorrow :D) a rena smartheater 200w, doubles as the intake for the xp3 if you don't know.

So I'm thinking...put that dead center in the tank and have the jet in one corner blowing diagonally out towards the front center, and the powerhead in the other corner doing the same thing. Otherwise I'll basically end up with the powerhead and the xp3 jet in practically the same spot...

I think I might do that and plumb it with PVC :)
 
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