I'm not much of a poster here but a bigtime lurker, I have a 150 freshwater with an Fx5 and a marineland tidepool 2 sump on it, I want to ditch the Tidepool 2 sump and replace it with a 30 gallon wet/dry sump I'm diy'ing. I have a couple of questions I appreciate the help and am thankful in advance. This is the sump I'm working on 
http://www.kensfish.com/product2767.html
1. I'm using a Deep Blue Triton 5 pump, It's rated at 1350 GPH. I'm thinking of coming out of the pump with a 1" ball valve to vinyl tubing then going into a Y fitting and changing over to 3/4 PVC and going to 2 different returns to the tank one on each end.Does that sound like it will work? Also am I better off buying the returns prefabedhttp://www.marinedepot.com/ps_viewitem.aspx?idproduct=FT0001&child=FT0001&gclid=CP_1sbnwnq8CFYbe4AodSDtTZQ or should I make my own out of pvc 90's.
2. For my overflow boxes I'm waiting on an aqueon overflow box http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036RXOPM/ref=oh_o00_s00_i00_details It's rated at 2200 GPH, It has 2 outputs,And I also have an Eshopps PF-300 for a second overflow box, I want 2 overflow boxes so that It helps clean up different areas of my tank, the 3 pipes coming back to the sump I'm not sure if It's a good idea to come into the top of my wet/dry drawers 3 different places at the top drawer or if I should just join all 3 to a larger size pipe. I'm thinking 3 will do a better job to disperse the water
3. Will this sump be enough to filter a moderately stocked 150 or will I still need to keep the FX5 on it? I do have a second Triton 5 as a backup but was also thinking of power consumption.
Thanks for reading through my thread and Thanks in advance for any help in setting this up.
http://www.kensfish.com/product2767.html
1. I'm using a Deep Blue Triton 5 pump, It's rated at 1350 GPH. I'm thinking of coming out of the pump with a 1" ball valve to vinyl tubing then going into a Y fitting and changing over to 3/4 PVC and going to 2 different returns to the tank one on each end.Does that sound like it will work? Also am I better off buying the returns prefabedhttp://www.marinedepot.com/ps_viewitem.aspx?idproduct=FT0001&child=FT0001&gclid=CP_1sbnwnq8CFYbe4AodSDtTZQ or should I make my own out of pvc 90's.
2. For my overflow boxes I'm waiting on an aqueon overflow box http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036RXOPM/ref=oh_o00_s00_i00_details It's rated at 2200 GPH, It has 2 outputs,And I also have an Eshopps PF-300 for a second overflow box, I want 2 overflow boxes so that It helps clean up different areas of my tank, the 3 pipes coming back to the sump I'm not sure if It's a good idea to come into the top of my wet/dry drawers 3 different places at the top drawer or if I should just join all 3 to a larger size pipe. I'm thinking 3 will do a better job to disperse the water
3. Will this sump be enough to filter a moderately stocked 150 or will I still need to keep the FX5 on it? I do have a second Triton 5 as a backup but was also thinking of power consumption.
Thanks for reading through my thread and Thanks in advance for any help in setting this up.
