Help with plumbing please - should be easy.

[HighFlyerMN]

Hi, I am working on plumbing up my 90 gallon Oceanic reef-ready tank and I made the mistake of gluing some piece of my overflow drain together that I shouldn't have. I

I'm looking for the part circled in red. Can someone tell me what it's called and if it's something I can buy w/o purchasing the whole overflow kit?

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f159/hooperm/Drain.jpg

Should I run a barbed fitting from there? What size line should I use on the drain?

I hate plumbing....

[hkgar]

The part circled looks to be a reducer.

[HighFlyerMN]

Well I'm able to take the reducer off but I glued a fitting to that which reduced my drain size down too far I'm afraid. I don't want it backing up on me or being noisy.

[hkgar]

It looks like a 1 inch drain and I would leave it at 1". Here is a pic of mine.

http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/j409/hkgar1/20121024_171345.jpg

[HighFlyerMN]

Thanks for the pic, I appreciate any and all help. I'm sure the pieces I glued together reduced the drain down to less than 1" which is why I aborted that plan. I take it there's no threads on your drain line, right? Just press together with PVC glue? I struggle with plumbing....

[hkgar]

if you look closely you will see threads on the drain from the tank. I bought my tank used so the plumbing was done already.

It looks like a piece of 1 inch pipe (probably thin wall) was glued into the threaded piece coming from the tank so that the flex tube could be slid over it.

Find a good neighborhood hardware shop (NOT Lowes or Homedepot) to help you with what you are trying to do. And, remember all plumbing projects take at least 3 trips to the hardware store!!

[MarlinDreams]

Without exactly seeing the fitting up close it looks to be a 1" X 3/4" bell reducer. What size is the opening under the tank?