Herbie overflow soft plumbing help

The friendliest place on the web for anyone with an interest in aquariums or fish keeping!
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.

Anovack

Aquarium Advice Freak
Joined
Jun 27, 2014
Messages
211
I am in the process of plumbing my 90gal to a trigger sump below. I am utilizing the 2 1" holes as the stand pipes and having the return out the back and over.

The issue I am having is that since the aquarium overflow is off center on the left hand side and the way the sump bulkheads are I literally have no space to include unions, gate valve on one, and still being able to hard plumb with 2 90 degrees or 2 45s.

With that being said I plan on using some barbs on the aquarium end. Should I put barbs on the sump bulkheads below or take those off and just run the braided vynl tubing down into the sump water?

I'm worried if I connect the tubing by a barb coming from aquarium to barb on sump I leave myself more vulnerable to issues happening.

Any thoughts? Picture below of sump I am talking about. Aquarium was not on to illustrate better.IMG_0734.jpg
 
Back
Top Bottom