Okay, so recently i had my Sicce Green Reset 100 canister pretty much explode on me. To this day, myself, nor the people I've spoken with about it can explain what happened. I simply unplugged my pump for a moment to drop some waste off an in take drain that was being held onto the drain screen (which I've done numerous times), and immediately as soon as the pump was unplugged the canister literally started bursting at all seams. I disassembled the entire thing, reassembled, hooked into the plumbing, and every seam, again, started to spew. So, that's on the back porch for now and I'm really not concerned with that canister atm. I'll never use Sicce again, however I've heard nothing but great things about their products.
Onto the new. The one thing that never sat well with me was having one canister filtering my whole 560. It was simply setup like this when I bought it. So, when the Sicce blew, I locked all my ball valves and removed it, went and got two FX6's on sale at my LFS and ghetto rigged the intake and return onto my in tank loc-line with zip ties, Dr Tims the BB and everythings fine for now. It's a temp fix. I was going to buy another large canister like an ultima 2000, then I decided, I already have these two FX6, and boy were they a breeze to setup and user friendly, so why not buy two more and run 4 together? I could easily clean them by alternating and never worry about nuking bb, and if one fails 3 are behind it.
So the issue is the proprietary nature of my tanks build. It has a SEALED chamber in the center of the tank since it's an island build. The chamber has 4 3/8" water returns at the top with loc-line inside, and 2 1.5" screen drains at the bottom towards the substrate to always get any messy waste that wants to sit on the bottom. It works well.
The plumbing was fairly simple. the 1.5" drains were merged into 1 1.5" using a T and elbow, then ball valve, then to the Sicce external pump. Then pump, to canister, and canister out had a 1.5" adapter that split into 4x 3/8" to the returns at the top of the chamber. Honestly, a really unque adapter. I'll post a picture of it from my phone once I post this from my PC.
My idea is this. The canisters on the fx6 are either 3/4" or 3/8". Honestly, I'm not positive on that but I'll go buy 2 more today and go to my hardware store and figure that out. That's pretty easy. If I need to get a reduced to size them properly who cares. So the returns would each have their own hookup to the tank via the chamber. a. to return, b. to return, c. to return, and finally d. to return.
The part I'm unsure on is the drain. I only have one 1.5" drain below the tank since the 2 1.5" have been merged into one that went into the pump. Replumbing this all the way back to the bulkhead is kind of out of the question since the ball valve is past the merge, and the drains reside so low I'd have to almost drain the whole tank and it is fully stocked. This doesn't seem like a huge problem tho. As far as I understand 3/8" (the FX6 drain hookup here) x4 = 1.5". So essentially I'm not reducing anything to restrict flow right? So my idea is use this 1.5" x 4x 3/8" adapter I had for the return, instead for the drains, and have the 1.5" drain split into 4 and going to each canister. Obviously I'd install their own separate ball valves to individually control them for maintenance, and I figure I make each line the exact same length to have even flow.
Does anyone see any issues with this I'm not thinking of?
4 FX6, each has it's own return to tank, all 4 on the same 1.5" drain split by 4.
Onto the new. The one thing that never sat well with me was having one canister filtering my whole 560. It was simply setup like this when I bought it. So, when the Sicce blew, I locked all my ball valves and removed it, went and got two FX6's on sale at my LFS and ghetto rigged the intake and return onto my in tank loc-line with zip ties, Dr Tims the BB and everythings fine for now. It's a temp fix. I was going to buy another large canister like an ultima 2000, then I decided, I already have these two FX6, and boy were they a breeze to setup and user friendly, so why not buy two more and run 4 together? I could easily clean them by alternating and never worry about nuking bb, and if one fails 3 are behind it.
So the issue is the proprietary nature of my tanks build. It has a SEALED chamber in the center of the tank since it's an island build. The chamber has 4 3/8" water returns at the top with loc-line inside, and 2 1.5" screen drains at the bottom towards the substrate to always get any messy waste that wants to sit on the bottom. It works well.
The plumbing was fairly simple. the 1.5" drains were merged into 1 1.5" using a T and elbow, then ball valve, then to the Sicce external pump. Then pump, to canister, and canister out had a 1.5" adapter that split into 4x 3/8" to the returns at the top of the chamber. Honestly, a really unque adapter. I'll post a picture of it from my phone once I post this from my PC.
My idea is this. The canisters on the fx6 are either 3/4" or 3/8". Honestly, I'm not positive on that but I'll go buy 2 more today and go to my hardware store and figure that out. That's pretty easy. If I need to get a reduced to size them properly who cares. So the returns would each have their own hookup to the tank via the chamber. a. to return, b. to return, c. to return, and finally d. to return.
The part I'm unsure on is the drain. I only have one 1.5" drain below the tank since the 2 1.5" have been merged into one that went into the pump. Replumbing this all the way back to the bulkhead is kind of out of the question since the ball valve is past the merge, and the drains reside so low I'd have to almost drain the whole tank and it is fully stocked. This doesn't seem like a huge problem tho. As far as I understand 3/8" (the FX6 drain hookup here) x4 = 1.5". So essentially I'm not reducing anything to restrict flow right? So my idea is use this 1.5" x 4x 3/8" adapter I had for the return, instead for the drains, and have the 1.5" drain split into 4 and going to each canister. Obviously I'd install their own separate ball valves to individually control them for maintenance, and I figure I make each line the exact same length to have even flow.
Does anyone see any issues with this I'm not thinking of?
4 FX6, each has it's own return to tank, all 4 on the same 1.5" drain split by 4.
