Plumbing question.. Custom sump with filter roller mat

[ShpwrkReefsS]

My 90G tank has a bean animal drain set up. Three 1" drains, one primary, one secondary and one emergency. I am going to order a custom sump and incorporate an AquaMaxx AF-1 filter roller instead of socks. My question is: should I manifold the primary and secondary drains into the AF-1 together or pipe the primary direct and the secondary into a crash box with no mechanical filtration? I should mention the AF-1 has a 1-1/2" inlet... TIA for your input.

 

[ri3eboi]

I have the exact question and I haven't found any answers. I think I will join the primary and secondary with a Wye connection then into the 1.5 inlet of the roller mat filter. Leave the emergency directly into the sump.

What did you end up doing? Any learnings and tips would be appreciated. I plan to do this in the next week or two.

 

[nereefpat]

You do not want to tie any of the drains together. It defeats the purpose of a Bean.

 

[krash7172]

Not sure what a bean is or if this even helps but I plumbed two return lines into a roller. This is a Clarisea. It has a bypass and an overflow (I assume this is standard) but I added an overflow before the roller with a tee.

 

[slayertx]

Bean animal is the style of drain. It is what lets your tank be quite and have redundancy in the overflow. You just defeated that and for all intensive purposes went back 15 years in the hobby to a single overflow.

 

[ri3eboi]

Bean animal is the style of drain. It is what lets your tank be quite and have redundancy in the overflow. You just defeated that and for all intensive purposes went back 15 years in the hobby to a single overflow.

Thanks for calling out that combining the two drains in bean animal style overflow into one reduces redundancy. But there is still the emergency drain. Why would combining the primary and secondary drain result in noise? I still have a gate valve on the main drain and I’d imagine it can adjust the water level just like before.

 

[slayertx]

putting them together always reduces the total flow you can have on the system. As time goes on we tend to buy bigger more powerful pumps. Also the idea is god forbid something clog it. Your emergency is for just that a emergency and normally is cut shorter and should cause a very audible crashing water sound letting you know you have a problem

 

[krash7172]

Bean animal is the style of drain. It is what lets your tank be quite and have redundancy in the overflow. You just defeated that and for all intensive purposes went back 15 years in the hobby to a single overflow.

putting them together always reduces the total flow you can have on the system. As time goes on we tend to buy bigger more powerful pumps. Also the idea is god forbid something clog it. Your emergency is for just that a emergency and normally is cut shorter and should cause a very audible crashing water sound letting you know you have a problem

Thanks for advice. I have room to overflow each in the sump individually.

 

[slayertx]

Thanks for advice. I have room to overflow each in the sump individually.

I have been redoing the hard plumbing on my tank all week. It sucks! Good luck with yours!

 

[K7BMG]

Agree two into one is no good.