Should I soft plumb the rest of this return line or hard plumb it?

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I am almost done plumbing my Red Sea 170, and I built a manifold and most of the hard line for the return line. I am not sure if I should do the rest of it, to where it connects to the return pipe, with soft tubing or if I should do it all with hard pipes. Please let me know what you would do. Soft would be easier and it will cause less head pressure for the pump I think, but hard will look cool and I already have the parts available for hard plumbing it vs soft, I would have to order parts. Here’s a pic of what I have so far.

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Hard, because at this point keep it neat and uniform. I'm not a big fan of soft plumbing myself. Looks great by the way.
 

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I soft plumbed a couple inches from pump and from filter roller to limit vibration transfer and hard plumbed the rest.
 
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Hard, because at this point keep it neat and uniform. I'm not a big fan of soft plumbing myself. Looks great by the way.
Thank you! Yeah I might hard plumb it, I think it’s safer than using soft. I am worried it will burst or something, I’m not sure if it would but just in case.
 
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