[Orion]

This is the mighty spray bar that I've put togeather for the return water.







I didn't have an actual spray bar, so I used a piece of pipe that came with the rena's, drilled a few holes and gobbed up hot glue at the end of it to cap it off. Works rather well so far.

I knew that there was something better I could do for the intake and return water where it passes thought the container. I searched around Lowes and came up with this:



This would allow me to do a bulkhead type fitting, also allowing me to use 90 degree angles to better help run the flexible tubing without putting so much presure on it. For the intake I wasn't real picky, just needed something to hold tight. I used a 1/2" female threaded to barbed adapter:


To help get the fitting water tight I used o-rings on both sides of the male threaded part. One ring on the outside of the container and on on the inside. Washers really would have worked better than o-rings, but didn't pick any up at the hardware store so I just used what I had on hand. I also used teflon tape on the threaded fittings.