That's where the "it looks like it will work with a little modification to my existing set up" comes in. I would just run the water directly to the GB not having it hooked into the drip ring around the GB. That way all values can stay in the open position, it will just bypass the ring.

I'm doing a 8 minute flood and a 4 minute drain from my 1,650 gph pump, about 850 goes by to the aerator ring in the FT. The other 800 gph is split between both GB's at 400 gph to each, but my battery pump is only 300 gph divided between the GB's is only 150 gph. At this rate it will not fire my pipe siphon, water comes into the GB's from the top and is siphon off from the bottom. Kind of like a continuous flow GB...is this OK? Can it run like that for 8 hours a day before going back the full power?

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