What’s in your sump?!?

[dreamcatcherr9]

Bare bottom, sand or marine pure type media?

Live rock, chaeto, other type on algae?

Protein skimmer, media reactor, etc?

ATO (which chamber) & Dosing (which chamber)

Thank you!

 

[Quietman]

Little GAC and Phosguard in a bag in bottom of sock holder, and a Tunze 9410 dc skimmer. Also keep some pond matrix in an old onion mesh bag for seeding QT. No sock, no reactor. Gravity RSR ATO...that's getting a bit tiresome and need to upgrade.

 

[dreamcatcherr9]

Little GAC and Phosguard in a bag in bottom of sock holder, and a Tunze 9410 dc skimmer. Also keep some pond matrix in an old onion mesh bag for seeding QT. No sock, no reactor. Gravity RSR ATO...that's getting a bit tiresome and need to upgrade.

No mechanical filtration?

 

[Quietman]

Nope. Ill throw a blue/white sponge in my filter holder on cleaning days for the next 24-48 hours or when I dose lanthanum, but that's about it.

That's 2" x 24" rolled up into cone.

 

[Crabs McJones]

Chaeto, sea lettuce and red ogo

 

[dreamcatcherr9]

Chaeto, sea lettuce and red ogo

(Besides light), nothing else in refuge? Sand, rock, etc?

 

[Crabs McJones]

(Besides light), nothing else in refuge? Sand, rock, etc?

Nope. Algae only

 

[Waters]

Socks, skimmer, UV, two pieces of emergency live rock for QT, heater, probes, return

 

[GlassMunky]

Filter socks, skimmer, UV, carbon in the first area of sump
Sea lettuce, red ogo, and a couple pieces of marine pure rocks in a bag for the fuge.
No sand or anything, sand in a sump isn’t a great idea IMO, it’ll just get too dirty.

 

[Mr Fishface]

My tank has two drains that drain into left and right chambers of my sump. Both have filter socks. Left chamber has the protein skimmer and used to have a biopellet reactor. Couple of extra pieces of live rock in there too. Middle chamber just has my return pumps and again, a couple pieces of extra rock. Right chamber has a sand bed, quite a bit of rock and caulerpa prolifera.

I feel nothing too fancy. It is a 55g sump so I have a little room to play with.