sump?
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kgross
Local Fish Store Owner
What do you want the sump to do?
If it is for a reef tank, I would do a small skimmer section first, just as large as you need for your skimmer, then a large refugium to grow macro algea, then a small return section for your return pump. I would not do live rock in the sump.
With that large of a sump unless you are flowing thousands of gallons an hour you do not need any bubble traps just a single baffle to hold the water level even in your skimmer section, and an egg crate baffle to keep the macro algea out of the return pump.
Kim
If it is for a reef tank, I would do a small skimmer section first, just as large as you need for your skimmer, then a large refugium to grow macro algea, then a small return section for your return pump. I would not do live rock in the sump.
With that large of a sump unless you are flowing thousands of gallons an hour you do not need any bubble traps just a single baffle to hold the water level even in your skimmer section, and an egg crate baffle to keep the macro algea out of the return pump.
Kim
The sump is going on my frag system, so there will be no liverock in the display and this is where I wanted to put it. There will be about +/-3000 gallons going thru it. The pump is Sequence dart rated at 4200g/h.
Thnaks.
Thnaks.
Returns and skimmer / rock / return pump in that order.
I only use 2 baffles, the first is an "under" then an over. The height of the "over" determines the height of the water in the sump. I'll post some pictures tonight, I just glued in the baffles last night.
