fermentedhiker
Well-Known Member
So I'm building a 125 softies/lps reef tank. Got a killer deal on a used RR 125 along with it's two return pumps, two powerheads and wavemaker. It came with three 24" aquatic life led lights. I've been following the brs ULM series and intend to adapt some of those principles.
Sump is a 40B that I had lying around. The display fuge is going to be a custom acrylic header tank mounted above the DT . Dimensions will be 72x12x12. Since I don't the the strip lights will be adequate for my DT I'm going to try and use them on the display fuge. I'm planning on a separate return pump for the display fuge and have it drain into the same sump as the DT. I was considering a RO Varios 2 which I'll T to also feed the "cryptic" fuge that will be under the stand. Not sure if I need to go with a bigger pump though. Thinking about placing a powerhead on each end with a wavemaker and have them run in an opposing ramp cycle(ie when one if 100% the other would be at it's lowest setting and they would slowly ramp to trade flow rate). Two MP10's maybe or something else?
Tank will be for my maxi mini nem, zoos and palys, and various slower growing macros.
The cryptic fuge would be fed as mentioned by a T from the return pump for the display fuge. Flow rate would be quite low(how low I haven't decided). I'm thinking of running the return line all the way to the bottom of the tank and terminating it in a spray bar style array/grid to try and ensure the water has to flow through all the layers of rock/rubble before getting to the overflow which would drain into the common sump. Originally I was going to have it made custom in black acrylic with just a single viewing pane, but I'm leaning towards just drilling a 29 gallon I have laying around and using it instead.
Any thoughts or ideas that I should consider?
Sump is a 40B that I had lying around. The display fuge is going to be a custom acrylic header tank mounted above the DT . Dimensions will be 72x12x12. Since I don't the the strip lights will be adequate for my DT I'm going to try and use them on the display fuge. I'm planning on a separate return pump for the display fuge and have it drain into the same sump as the DT. I was considering a RO Varios 2 which I'll T to also feed the "cryptic" fuge that will be under the stand. Not sure if I need to go with a bigger pump though. Thinking about placing a powerhead on each end with a wavemaker and have them run in an opposing ramp cycle(ie when one if 100% the other would be at it's lowest setting and they would slowly ramp to trade flow rate). Two MP10's maybe or something else?
Tank will be for my maxi mini nem, zoos and palys, and various slower growing macros.
The cryptic fuge would be fed as mentioned by a T from the return pump for the display fuge. Flow rate would be quite low(how low I haven't decided). I'm thinking of running the return line all the way to the bottom of the tank and terminating it in a spray bar style array/grid to try and ensure the water has to flow through all the layers of rock/rubble before getting to the overflow which would drain into the common sump. Originally I was going to have it made custom in black acrylic with just a single viewing pane, but I'm leaning towards just drilling a 29 gallon I have laying around and using it instead.
Any thoughts or ideas that I should consider?
