Building a Sump.

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Hey everyone. I have a 110 gallon tank. Eshopp PF1000 hang in overflow and in my basement I have a 20 gallon sump from oecianic reef. Hate the sump. And have to. Use a CPR hang on refugium. For a refugium. Which I only just filled with miracle mud. 2 dayz ago. Found. I have 7 small fish in the tank.

Anywho!! I got a 40 gallon breeder for $40 at Petsmart. Was going to build a sump with a nice refugium from layout I got on the interweb. I want to make a change though and make the the refuge panels dark to help fight algae growth in other chambers.

So the question is..... Do I buy black acrylic panels on Amazon $35 a 24x24 shwet? Or do you have an idea on. Tinting glass walls.?
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Glass panels are the best choice for a glass sump. You can get tinted glass at any local glass shop. They will cut the pieces to whatever size you like and sand the edges at little to no extra cost.
 
What I have done in the past on my overflow glass was smear a very thin layer of black silicone over the glass. Assuming that you don't want to do it on the inner baffles its very easy and quite cheap.
 
You can also look into reef safe spray paint. It's been a while, but one of the big spray paint brands made one that was reef safe. It was basically like plastic spray. I knew of a reefer that used it to spray his return pipes and durso pipes (so they were submerged) all black in his overflow and never had any issues.
 
A 40 will be quite a bit shallower than that 50 - Since you have the basement I'd use a 10 gallon or so separate container for the refugium.

or a 20. these are usually readily available and inexpensive.
 
Seconding glass. And call around. One place quoted me $50 per piece, and the second place quoted me $8 per piece.
 
Just get very thin black acrylic or plastic hheets and cut them 1/8" smaller than the glass baffles. Attach the sheets to the glass after the glass is installed in the new sump. Super glue should work, but 3M 5200 would hold it forever!
 
I used glass on my 40b sump. I didn't get tinted glass though since the price was a lot more.


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Ron Reefman said:
Just get very thin black acrylic or plastic hheets and cut them 1/8" smaller than the glass baffles. Attach the sheets to the glass after the glass is installed in the new sump. Super glue should work, but 3M 5200 would hold it forever!
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Kinda was the thing I was thinking. Since they say silicone and acrylic dont go together well inline if bond.

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