1st sump plan - this plan look good?

[Reef_Clown]

From left to right:
4. Return area
3. Refugium
2b blue filer media
2. Skimmer + Bio Balls
2a green filter media
1. Water entry

Look good? How’s the spacing?

 

[shakacuz]

will you be putting your heaters in the sump? take account for that, too
will you be using filter sock holders/filter socks, or adding more "baffles' to adjust water height, or will this setup be at a fixed water height? i ask because the filter media indicates you will have 2 bubble traps

spacing looks okay. but i would personally add more space in the refugium chamber and put the bio balls in this chamber as well

 

[Reef_Clown]

will you be putting your heaters in the sump? take account for that, too
will you be using filter sock holders/filter socks, or adding more "baffles' to adjust water height, or will this setup be at a fixed water height?

spacing looks okay.

No socks, baffles are next to the green and blue media. Ill take a pic.
Heaters will go in …at the return area I think…

 

[shakacuz]

No socks, baffles are next to the green and blue media. Ill take a pic.
Heaters will go in …at the return area I think…

don't add the heaters to the return chamber. your return pump will already create heat, and adding more heat will cause your water evaporation in this chamber to be much more than it needs to be. i recommend putting them/making room in the skimmer chamber. or if you can, in the drain chamber as well.

edit: if no socks, then you can make the skimmer and refugium sections bigger by making the drain section smaller (and adding the bio media here is an option too. but i would still recommend to put it in the refugium chamber too)

 

[Reef_Clown]

don't add the heaters to the return chamber. your return pump will already create heat, and adding more heat will cause your water evaporation in this chamber to be much more than it needs to be. i recommend putting them/making room in the skimmer chamber. or if you can, in the drain chamber as well.

Awesome! Can do! Where would i sacrifice some space to make the refugium bigger? In the overflow? How “tight” can i run the baffles against the skimmer?

 

[twentyleagues]

No socks, baffles are next to the green and blue media. Ill take a pic.
Heaters will go in …at the return area I think…

if you have baffles don't put your heaters in the return section. Its the section with the most water fluctuation. Put them in the skimmer section or refugium.

 

[AquaBert]

From left to right:
4. Return area
3. Refugium
2b blue filer media
2. Skimmer + Bio Balls
2a green filter media
1. Water entry

Look good? How’s the spacing?

Is there a reason why one media is blue and the other green? I’m a bit new to complex systems, I have a AIO

 

[twentyleagues]

Is there a reason why one media is blue and the other green? I’m a bit new to complex systems, I have a AIO

different porosities.

 

[shakacuz]

Awesome! Can do! Where would i sacrifice some space to make the refugium bigger? In the overflow? How “tight” can i run the baffles against the skimmer?

look at my previous post. i made an edit. see if that answers your question

Is there a reason why one media is blue and the other green? I’m a bit new to complex systems, I have a AIO

colors don't usually mean anything, but some brands could indicate that each color has a different size to their "grain" or porosity much like how some filter socks come in different microns.

 

[Court_Appointed_Hypeman]

Couple things,

It looks like the water height is the same throughout the setup, that will cause a lot of low flow areas that you may want to keep in mind, particularly with the fuge portion and if you will be dosing using pumps where you will want more turbulence in the water. Unless you have weirs I am not seeing on the baffles. Mine is pevel all the way accross and if I could do it again, I would make them step down chamber to chamber, but made up for all the issues with a powerhead in my fuge.

The other thing is the skimmer may need a dtand, looks too deep for it, unless the top of the fuge baffle is not the water height.

Mind posting more angles?

It looks very nice from what I can see.

 

[Reef_Clown]

Couple things,

It looks like the water height is the same throughout the setup, that will cause a lot of low flow areas that you may want to keep in mind, particularly with the fuge portion and if you will be dosing using pumps where you will want more turbulence in the water. Unless you have weirs I am not seeing on the baffles. Mine is pevel all the way accross and if I could do it again, I would make them step down chamber to chamber, but made up for all the issues with a powerhead in my fuge.

The other thing is the skimmer may need a dtand, looks too deep for it, unless the top of the fuge baffle is not the water height.

Mind posting more angles?

It looks very nice from what I can see.

There another pic above of the baffles from a better angle

No socks, baffles are next to the green and blue media. Ill take a pic.
Heaters will go in …at the return area I think…

 

[slogan315]

Not a necessity, but may keep in mind potential new equipment and where it might go. If you ever decide you do want something like a filter roller, it would be nice that you made the entry section big enough for a standard roller that would fit your tank. Or one day you might want to install UV for water clarity or pest control, and need a spot for a smaller auxiliary pump. Or if you need small pump(s) for reactors.

I planned on having a simple, elbow grease run, reef tank when I started earlier this year. 8 months later I just had to ditch my nice (too small sump) to fit all this gear I never thought I’d ”need”, much less buy.

 

[Reef_Clown]

Not a necessity, but may keep in mind potential new equipment and where it might go. If you ever decide you do want something like a filter roller, it would be nice that you made the entry section big enough for a standard roller that would fit your tank. Or one day you might want to install UV for water clarity or pest control, and need a spot for a smaller auxiliary pump. Or if you need small pump(s) for reactors.

I planned on having a simple, elbow grease run, reef tank when I started earlier this year. 8 months later I just had to ditch my nice (too small sump) to fit all this gear I never thought I’d ”need”, much less buy.

Right! I know! It’s so hard to tell where it’ll go…. I just expand the return one more inch to account for a small pump to run my UV. The space at the return area is big enough to hold both

 

[slogan315]

Right! I know! It’s so hard to tell where it’ll go…. I just expand the return one more inch to account for a small pump to run my UV. The space at the return area is big enough to hold both

This is nit picky… but you may want your small pump to be upstream from your refugium and return. The reason being, and it may not matter that much, but it seems like having the pods in your refugium, bypassing the UV and reactors would be better. Also if your eventual dosing lines will dose to the return section, seems like not running your additives through your Uv and reactor line right away might be a good thing. I specifically am thinking Kalk where it could gum up equipment, or additives where I wouldn’t want them having to run through carbon and other reactors before getting a chance in your display.

Take all this with a grain of salt as my new sump is a Rubbermaid bucket with no baffles.

 

[Reef_Clown]

This is nit picky… but you may want your small pump to be upstream from your refugium and return. The reason being, and it may not matter that much, but it seems like having the pods in your refugium, bypassing the UV and reactors would be better. Also if your eventual dosing lines will dose to the return section, seems like not running your additives through your Uv and reactor line right away might be a good thing. I specifically am thinking Kalk where it could gum up equipment, or additives where I wouldn’t want them having to run through carbon and other reactors before getting a chance in your display.

Take all this with a grain of salt as my new sump is a Rubbermaid bucket with no baffles.

Hahahahaha!!! Sometimes the simplest is the best! I’m new to all this so mainly just doing a gut check that what I’m doing isn’t completely out of line!

 

[Court_Appointed_Hypeman]

There another pic above of the baffles from a better angle

Need an angle on the sides of the baffles, mostly trying to see if you have another baffle on the other side of your aquamesh, and if there are weirs to lower the water height.

 

[Reef_Clown]

Need an angle on the sides of the baffles, mostly trying to see if you have another baffle on the other side of your aquamesh, and if there are weirs to lower the water height.

 

[Reef_Clown]

Vents in the first baffle that will go through the more porous aquamesh. Weirs in the second after the less porous aquamesh, the 3rd baffle is slightly shorter and is about the same height as the 2nd baffle before the weirs.