Circulation Pump inside of Sump ?

[Z06-Hec]

Not sure I have ever seen this or read of someone doing this so I thought I would post it....

I placed a small jet into my sump to circulated any sediment that may fall and just rest on the bottom. Without the pump i could definitely notice crap on the bottom along the edges of the sump and even around the bottom of the skimmer base....
Figured if there was a pump in there moving this stuff around, it would either get skimmed out or at least pushed through to the bio filtration pad/rocks before the return....
Looks to be working to me, so made me think if anyone has ever discussed this? or recommend against it?

 

[Hydrored]

Yes, I run a pump in my sump, mostly for where my dosing lines are. It’s not required but I prefer this method over dosing directly in my return pumps

 

[mfinn]

This might be a little different than the topic, but I use a small powerhead in my refugium.
Seems to help the chaeto grow.

 

[Dbichler]

I use a large cheap powerhead to keep my sump clean of build up. Highly recommend it for less cleaning. If you already have build up though I would do a deep cleaning first.

 

[Z06-Hec]

Def on topic !

weird i've never seen this discussed... but yeah, running a cheap pump to move the water in there...Looking good

 

[A sea K]

I'm going against the flow here. I would not use one, in fact I would try to encouarage a low flow area for detritus to settle making it easy to remove vs keeping it suspended to have it settle out in the main display, clogging live rock and sand which is a notorius detritus trap. Some of the other uses (tumble cheato, disperse chemicles) would be acceptable IMO