Next we took a trip to the hardware store and got all the fittings and pvc to plum the tank back into the sump of our main display. For the drain we used 3/4 pvc and the pressure line was 1/2 flex hose because we had to put the pump in a place that would have been very difficult to plump out of pvc. For the return we made a
durso standpipe this helps to keep the plumbing nice and quiet. The pressure line we used some pvc to come up over the top of the box and we have since attached a lock line goose neck fitting that you can get at the LFS so we could direct the flow where we wanted in the tank. Heres the top side of the plumbing.
Notice that we put a piece of 3/4 hard styrofoam under the whole tank. Marc suggests this incase your tank isn't perfectly square it helps to keep additional pressure off your seams. We took his word for it because we didn't want 30 gallons on the carpet one day. Another picture sligtly zoomed out.
The underside going into the main cabinet.
Last the plumbing on the inside of the main cabinet dumping out into our sump. The flex hose is just to the right of the return line and we had to stick the pump down to the left of the skimmer which is why we needed the flex hose.
