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					Originally Posted by  Mr OM
					 
				 
				You might want to do some math, you need about 165 drinking straws to handle a 2 inch feed, likely twice that much considering the friction loss, starving a pump is going to cause nothing but grief. 
			
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 Ahhhh.....you wonder why I have balloons covering all parts of the Y....it's because I took your advice and I'm just going to use eggcrate to cover the two 2" holes at the Y.  The straws are just "extra" to spread it out even more.  I really did take all of your advice to heart and am planning it the way you suggested.  Instead, I didn't use a T, cause a Y takes up less space. You wanted me to draw water from top down, so that's what I'm doing.
Thanks for the advice.