Sump/refugium Thread

[fritz]

Tone, what kind of skimmer are you guys planning for that sump? If you gravity feed it you can combine the drain and skimmer section and elongate the fuge. It would be a shame on a four foot sump to only have 14" for a fuge. The fuge on my 2 foot sump is more than 14". On a four foot sump like that I'd want more than 2 feet to be fuge. SPS like pods.

 

[Psycho graphic]

Built from a 30 to be used with a 40 breeder DT. Reactors; Phosban, Carbon and Ozone. I plan to run a DSB with Cheato in the fuge portion. Skimmer will be a modded Berlin (yeah, I know, but the load will be light and I WILL get it to work decent). Return pump is an Iwaki 30 throught a bottom spray bar and a modded (if it works out) Scwd. Lighting will be 2 15W NO fluorescents IIRC 5500K.

 

[fritz]

I love that sump, I wonder if it will be difficult to get the flow right to feed the reactors that you have hooked up to the drain. It seems as you open one valve you will affect the flow on the others as well.

 

[Psycho graphic]

It's hooked up to the return, not the drain. I have it all tied together so if for any reason I want to isolate the Sump/Fuge from the DT I can keep water ciculating through it.

 

[inkblue]

miNE aint fanCy but mY fuGe is separatE from mY sump. unfortunateLy, i had to have the fuGe outside of the tank...