Can someone teach me how to attach AquaBee 2000 inlet to a baffle?

[DUCADOS]

It's better to bring along your pump to try on the spot then to buy then wrong item bro!

Unless u got advise from a very certain guy that what size to use...

[tunicate]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

[Nitro]

The union ball valves and one-way stop valves are as shown. The ball valve cost less than $8/- each. It's the one-way valve that's slightly ex as there are not very common in SG, think it's over $20/- or $30/- each. What you see in the pics are the exact ones that I'm using for my tank system. It's for a size 20mm and 25mm PVC pipes. The return pumps I'm using is the AB2000I model which fit into the 20mm PVC pipes.

This is how I ran my piping. As you can see, there is a redundancy at the 2 return line. This is to facilitate should I need to switch off the return pumps, I dun have to close the ball valves, the one-way stop valves will do their job. The ball valves is more of for other usage in my setup. One word of advice... Always place all ball valves and any other valves within the area of your sump tank, so that if there's any leak in the joint, the leak will only drip into the sump and not out onto your flooring. As you can see, 1 of my mistake is the valves along the downstream line are position outside the area of the sump tank. I'll have to re-position them when I'm free, as of now there's no leak.

[DUCADOS]

Nice vivid elaboration by bro nitro.

1 very curious question.

What's the reason that u place your skimmer in the return pump section?

Wouldn't it face water level fluctuation problem? Or u got a auto water top up system?

[tunicate]

Thanks for the explanation. Very neat design you have there. I notice most folks have their return line(s) going back to main tank via overflow box. Yours is not. Can I ask what makes you do it this way?

[Nitro]

Nice vivid elaboration by bro nitro.

1 very curious question.

What's the reason that u place your skimmer in the return pump section?

Wouldn't it face water level fluctuation problem? Or u got a auto water top up system?

Auto top up system... Yes I have and it's a "SMART" system some more... me lor

I dun really have a great water level fluctuation in that compartment.

[Nitro]

Thanks for the explanation. Very neat design you have there. I notice most folks have their return line(s) going back to main tank via overflow box. Yours is not. Can I ask what makes you do it this way?

Cuz if you visit my Memeber's Tank thread, you'll see that my overflow box is an external one and I have 2 outlet pipe running into the refugium and 2 return line back to the main tank via a "open pipe" concept. Hope you'll be able to get some ideas from my design and also to improve on whatever I've missed out and make yours a better one!

[tunicate]

Got it. Thanks