Plumbing question

[BradyLink]

How are you guys plumbing your clairseas ? With dual 1-1/2 drains. Are you guys just teeing lines together and plumbed right into unit ?
Also would like some external overflow plumbing examples for a peninsula build
Thanks

 

[ichthyogeek]

Bumping this up.

 

[keithIHS]

Thread's a little thin and stale, but here's my 2 cents in hopes it helps and in hopes it inspires someone else to comment. I have a Bean Animal with only the main drain plumbed into the Clarisea. I'm using flex PVC, put it's really too stiff. To service the Clarisea, I have to disconnect the union (just below the gate valve). Also, it would be a pain to play with the height of the Clarisea. To go higher, I'd have to trim the PVC, and if I want to go lower I'd have to trim more PVC, and add a coupler and stub to go into the Clarisea. The open channel (trickle) drains into the sump, next to but bypassing the Clarisea, and likewise the emergency. I definitely would not tee the two (main + open trickle) together. I like being able to check the trickle to make sure it's trickling.

 

[BradyLink]

Thread's a little thin and stale, but here's my 2 cents in hopes it helps and in hopes it inspires someone else to comment. I have a Bean Animal with only the main drain plumbed into the Clarisea. I'm using flex PVC, put it's really too stiff. To service the Clarisea, I have to disconnect the union (just below the gate valve). Also, it would be a pain to play with the height of the Clarisea. To go higher, I'd have to trim the PVC, and if I want to go lower I'd have to trim more PVC, and add a coupler and stub to go into the Clarisea. The open channel (trickle) drains into the sump, next to but bypassing the Clarisea, and likewise the emergency. I definitely would not tee the two (main + open trickle) together. I like being able to check the trickle to make sure it's trickling.

So you wouldn’t tee two drains together and run through it ? I have three one for just emergency

 

[redfishbluefish]

I don't have a Clarisea, but do have two 1 1/2 inch drains. One option for you is to run only one drain to the Clarisea, while the other drain goes, as an example, to your refugium. This is more or less what I do with one drain going into a sock.

Here's my sump. Drains are in the back two corners of the sump. You can see the one on the right going into the refugium. The one on the left is behind the skimmer, but you can see the sock it drains into.

 

[BradyLink]

I don't have a Clarisea, but do have two 1 1/2 inch drains. One option for you is to run only one drain to the Clarisea, while the other drain goes, as an example, to your refugium. This is more or less what I do with one drain going into a sock.

Here's my sump. Drains are in the back two corners of the sump. You can see the one on the right going into the refugium. The one on the left is behind the skimmer, but you can see the sock it drains into.

I have 3 drains one for emergency all 1-1/2

 

[keithIHS]

If one of your drains has most of the flow, e.g. the one controlled w a valve as in Bean Animal, that should go to your Clarisea. And if the 2nd is just a trickle, there's not much point in having it go to the Clarisea. Theres really no need to have all your water go through the filter. Furthermore, you want to be able to adjust the valve on the main drain based on how much is flowing down the 2nd drain. You need to be able to see the flow in the 2nd drain. I have the end of the 2nd drain under the surface of the water in the sump to reduce noise, but I lift it out (flex PVC) to check the trickle. The 3rd, the emergency, absolutely must not go to the Clarisea.
Another reason to have the 2nd drain NOT go to the Clarisea is the 2nd drain acts as your 1st safety. If the main or Clarisea gets clogged, the 2nd will carry more flow, which gives you a chance to correct the problem. Otherwise you only have one safety.