Ok. I'm new to R2R so I hope I'm posting in the right area. I need some help with plumbing on my 265 gallon aquarium. I decided that after a year of having my system up and running to tear it down. I like most newbie made classic mistakes and my tank was overrun with algae, unwanted critters, etc. My question on plumbing is with the drain line specifically. I'm not an artist but here is what I am trying to do.
The top Picture is of the stand setup for a reef ready tank with dual corner overflow. Each side has a 1.5" drain which converts below into a 1" line. The returns are 1". On the bottom picture I want to change the return to another 1.5 drain. Has anyone done this? I ran a durso overflow originally. Has anyone done two dursos in a stock tank? I decided to run my return lines externally up the back of the tank but I'm not running the typical 1" pipe. I've change this to a 1.5" pipe which will T off and run to each side of the tank with two penductors on each end. The pump driving the return will be the same a Reeflo Snapper/Dart Hybrid running the Dart impeller at 3600gph. So with the increase diameter in return pipe, does anyone think that the single 1.5' drain on each side work? Has anyone done this before? here are some pics of the return plumbing I'm working on.
