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Originally Posted by ronau
Thanks for the replies guys.
Quite honestly I probably don`t need any check valves but redundancy is always good. My tank is 70 gallons and my sump is 55 gallons. I am going to use 2 90° loc-line elbows to bring my return up and then barely back down into the water so it should break the siphon very quickly in the event of a power failure. I bet I could flow 15 gallons back to my sump without a problem but I guess we`ll see when I get it plumbed and tested.
Thanks again guys.
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Redundancy is a great word! (I have an extra emergency drain just in case LOL)... On the return side I would recommend that your loc-line is as short as possible, so it's not able to be bumped down and become too low (draining too much water in the event of outage), and then totally skip the check valve.
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Single System Setup: 210G SPS reef, 225G FOWLR, 72G water change, 50G frag, 120G sump. I promise a journal at some point! (anyone need some coral frags? I likely always have stuff that is frag-ready)
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