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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lost in the Sauce" data-source="post: 11021077" data-attributes="member: 169459"><p>It's up to you. The 3/4" could be used as an e-drain with higher than rated flow and you're taking a chance that you never need the full flow power. It could work just fine indefinitely. It could empty your sump into the tank and onto the floor. </p><p></p><p></p><p>You could spend a weekend, ripclean the tank, drill it for appropriate sized bulkheads and put it back together having plenty of food capability.</p><p></p><p></p><p>You could close off your main drain with the gate valve, set your pump flow to a Bit lower than the 3/4" e-drain can handle under full siphon, then open your gate valve and tune the flow through the larger pipe down to what your pump was set to. This will give you a 3/4" overflow and tank turnover will be in the 3-4x turnover per hour range.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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