Drawing water off my main pump?

[Fizbang]

Hey folks,

I have a JBJ30 All in one. The first "mod" I did was remove the twin return pumps and put in a single larger one. The pumps were 265gph so total is 530gph. The pump I replaced them with is a 660gph that is adjustable. I turned it way back to simulate the original gph. Anyway, I am now wanting to add in a DIY Chaeto reactor. This will be located under the DT in the cabinet. I am hoping to avoid adding another dedicated pump to the system. Since my main pump has extra "juice" could I splice into it with some sort of ball valve and have it also run the reactor or will the head pressure be too much? The pump is a Jebo 3500 for reference.

 

[RobZilla04]

If the pump is adjustable and you place ball/gate valves on the line(s), you can adjust the flow. Therefore you shouldn't have "too much" head pressure.

If there is room I suggest placing valves on the lines headed to DT as well. This will allow you to "dial" in the flow to each line depending on the needs.

 

[hijinks]

ya put a ball/gate valve after a T fitting and on the T fitting you install a manifold setup. Its like a bunch of t fittings that have ball valves to turn them on/off at the end. So you connect what you need and turn the others off for future growth.

The ball/gate valve going back to your display creates artificial head pressure to push more water through the manifold.

 

[Fizbang]

Thanks for the responses, I don't have a manifold. Keep in mind this is an all in one tank so the pump is in the back of the tank. IOW, I would have to put a small inline valve then tubing over the top of the tank, down in to the stand where the reactor is and then the water would have to come back up and over.