would this work to put a line off the intake of my filter for a tower? im going to be hard-lining my fx5 plumbing to all pvc to do a custom dual skimmer style intake and to include an inline co2 reactor since my knife likes to chew on suction cups and i dont want him ruining an expensive glass diffuser in the tank, and im thinking of putting another T with a ball valve diverting some water off the intake line (like in the UV sterilizer photo) to a reactor tower or two filled with the denitrate or something porous. then having it plumbed back into an angled T on the return line from the filter, so the reactor towers would bypass the fx5- im hoping that by using the angled 3 way fittings i will achieve some sort of venturi effect instead of a straight T pushing water across the flow path of an already semi-restricted system. or could i have the 2 T's on the same side to make it easier. pull water from one T earlier on the line and put it back in further down the same side. I considered doing it off the filters output line so the water would be thoroughly scrubbed mechanically and hopefully allow the media to go for a longer period of time before clogging. just a thought for now as i purchase the supplies to hardline the Fx5. Heres some pictures i googled of the plumbing style im going for. the intakes will be 1" then meet at a T and go to 1.5" pvc, to 1.5" hose for the last couple inches to the filter. output will be 1.5" the entire way until being reduced for higher pressure at the spray bar. might do the output at 1" the whole way, i need to do the math for the friction loss and head pressure to figure out how big of a difference it will make (never would have thought my firefighter math for hose lines would be used in my fishkeeping lol) and which would give me the better working end pressure for desired turnover rate.
sorry for the long post. just lots of ideas going through my head with this subject.
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