DIY sump advice

[J062682l]

Here's my plan

It's for a 55. I'm thinking single over flow. One sock.

 

[Ron Reefman]

You're feeding water from the 1st sump into the sand under an egg crate grill in the 2nd tank, correct? What happens when that sand gets dirty and starts to clog up the flow? And why are you feeding it into (under) the surface of the sand in the first place?

 

[J062682l]

There's a baffle before sand , and the egg crate isn't a definite , do u have any recommendations

 

[J062682l]

Lol. I forgot to draw the baffle before the sand pit

 

[Ron Reefman]

The only concerns I'd have are the flow from the filter sock out to the open area where the skimmer is. If that 3" area could get clogged over time with bags of 'stuff' in the way. Also the feed into the 2nd tank with rocks piled on top. If the flow gets stopped up with algae or a dead fish or a loose anemone, you'll have to pull all the rocks out in order to get access to the area that is blocked. I don't know how much sand you intend to have in the 2nd tank, but it doesn't look like much. Why do you want the sand at all? Is it supposed to be a DSB? It's not deep enough and probably not big enough to make a difference. Just do really quality live rock instead and in time it will do nitrate reduction as well. It's not that I'm not against DSB's, I have a 2' x 2' x 8" DSB in my sump and it works OK. I just think yours is too shallow and too small, but then I really don't know how big it is from your drawing. I think you'd be better off with macro algae than a DSB and LR.

 

[J062682l]

Macro algae and live rock is good for me ill keep out the egg crate there as well. Now in thinking about diameters for pipes. Overflow,, the middle ones,, and my return.

 

[Jcap74]

Here is my sump it is a 29 gallon tank it has been working great for the last 3 months no issue and my copepod population is get big in my refugium.

I put my return put in the middle.