Fuge Question.

[MyMonkey]

I have been running a sump with semi-fuge for a few months now. I have Cheato and a few rocks with lights on 24 hours over the sump. Hence semi-fuge. It is a 10 gallon tank with a bit of Light difuser as a divider between the intake and return line.

My problem is that I picked up a nice skimmer (Life Reef VS2-24, Thanks again Dusty) that won't really fit in a 10 gallon along with space for a fuge. I do have a 20 gallon tank that I might try using.

Question: In the event that will not fit under my tank, should I go for the better skimmer or the fuge?

 

[Murdock5150]

This is the set up I used when I had to fit everything under my tank. It is a 72gl bowfront, so I had a little bit of room in the stand. I used a 10gl for my fuge, and a 15gl for my sump. I stacked them up and put the skimmer in the 15gl.

 

[Murdock5150]

Also, the light for my fuge is mounted behind the fuge, not on top of it. The lights on the fuge ran exactly opposite of the main lighting cycle.

 

[MyMonkey]

Nice job. 2 Questions: How did you get the 10 gallon to stack up? Also, what did you use to run water to the sump from the fuge? (90 degree out the side etc...)

 

[Murdock5150]

You can kind of see it in the picture. I set the 10gal on top of the 15gal and since the are almost the same width, I just overlapped them)the back and side of the 15gl supported the 10gl. You don't have to worry about the weight with only 10 gals. There was a hole drilled on one side of the 10 gl for watter to be plumbed to the tank below. My overflow from the main ran directly into the fuge first.