Hello everyone! I am looking for a little plumbing advice. I currently have an established 90 gallon aquarium that I am going to upgrade the sump on. The current sump setup is in the cabinet under the tank and very difficult to do maintenance on. Plus I would like to transition to the triton method and I currently do not have a refugium. I have purchased a trigger systems triton44 that will be located approximately 8-10 feet below the aquarium. I also have an ecotech vortec L2 which at my head height should move about 1000 gph (for the triton method I believe I need at least 10x my tank volume which would be 900 gph). The overflow area in the tank has a 3/4" pvc for return and a 1" pvc for drainage. I cannot change these because that corner of the tank fits into a corner in a room and I cannot get to it. The output fitting on my new pump is 1.25". I have 3 1" return fittings on the sump. My plan for plumbing is to have 1.25" pvc from the return pump to the tank then downsize to 3/4" to fit the current plumbing going into the tank. For the drainage, I plan to upsize the plumbing under the tank to 1.5" down to the sump then use a wye to downsize to 2 1" pipes into the fittings in the sump. Does this sound reasonable??? I tend to overthink things so any advice would be very much appreciated!
