Should I add another overflow?

[Be102]

So my neighbor just recently got out of the hobby and to my surprise he had a lot of similar equipment as I do. He had a whole setup from lifereef . A Berlin sump, a skimmer, ato setup for sump and another hob prefilter box. Identical to mine nearly.. (although 20 years older) same style and everything though.

I was wondering if I should add another overflow to my tank and have more filtration. I have 3 inputs on my filter sock side of my sump and 1 on my return side. I was thinking either plumbing the new overflow into my filtersoxks so I could increase the flow through my tank. ( I have a varios 6 and only use setting 2 of 5)

What is everyone’s opinion? I unfortunately can’t hook up another sump because of lack of space and don’t really want to just have the equipment sitting if I could utilize it. Any opinions would be great!

 

[Flippers4pups]

Is the current overflow box not able to handle the flow out of the DT?

 

[Be102]

Is the current overflow box not able to handle the flow out of the DT?

It can. It is capable of 600 gph I believe I was wondering how much flow is too much flow? I just assumed I would be able to add it on the other side and run another pipe to the filter sock inlet just because I had it. I can’t use the pump above lvl 2 because of the box not being able to flow that much out in time.

 

[Flippers4pups]

3x to 5x DT turn over through the sump in a hour is ideal.

 

[Be102]

3x to 5x DT turn over through the sump in a hour is ideal.

Maybe I’m just getting ahead of myself and trying to do too much

 

[Flippers4pups]

Honestly and respectfully the size tank and overflow your using should be fine. Adding a overflow to utilize another filter sock is good, but probably not needed.