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Facing a move, and the necessity to put my sump and pump in the basement, I went shopping. I have a 54 [I'm now told] bowfront, and a 10g sump with an Aqua C EV120 skimmer and a mag 9.5 pump with 900gph flow. This won't handle what comes next.
I'm drilling two holes in the corner of the living room floor, to the basement. One 1 1/2 inch pipe from near the carpet to the basement, where I'll have a stand and the sump. That feeds into the sump via a short hose. Next, a 1 inch pipe from downflow top of the tank through the floor and down to the basement, where it will connect to my new pump. It was hard to explain to the plumber I want to hire [I don't trust my joints in such a long run] that this non-code arrangement would not be connected to city water. He finally understood when I said closed loop.
The shopping part: a 30 gallon sump with ample room for the EV120 and a refugium, plus an Iwaki pump adequate to send that water upstairs with about 1500 to 1100 gph. At that hard pipe upstairs, is a downward elbow and a bifurcate head, one to a seaswirl, one to a directable nozzle. The pump and sump weren't cheap, but they'll be so much better than what I have. I'm getting new sand.
Plus the lfs is going to keep my fish and corals while I have a mild cycle, plus frag a couple of my larger corals that are getting too large---I'm going to give them the frags for the favor. AND they're going to drill my sump for the Iwaki external pump, which is one more job I don't have to do.
I'll be so glad when I'm through this, but I think it's going to be an excellent system, and much more stable. That'll give me much more water, and a refugium, and more flow, all in one. Happy un-birthday to us!
Facing a move, and the necessity to put my sump and pump in the basement, I went shopping. I have a 54 [I'm now told] bowfront, and a 10g sump with an Aqua C EV120 skimmer and a mag 9.5 pump with 900gph flow. This won't handle what comes next.
I'm drilling two holes in the corner of the living room floor, to the basement. One 1 1/2 inch pipe from near the carpet to the basement, where I'll have a stand and the sump. That feeds into the sump via a short hose. Next, a 1 inch pipe from downflow top of the tank through the floor and down to the basement, where it will connect to my new pump. It was hard to explain to the plumber I want to hire [I don't trust my joints in such a long run] that this non-code arrangement would not be connected to city water. He finally understood when I said closed loop.
The shopping part: a 30 gallon sump with ample room for the EV120 and a refugium, plus an Iwaki pump adequate to send that water upstairs with about 1500 to 1100 gph. At that hard pipe upstairs, is a downward elbow and a bifurcate head, one to a seaswirl, one to a directable nozzle. The pump and sump weren't cheap, but they'll be so much better than what I have. I'm getting new sand.
Plus the lfs is going to keep my fish and corals while I have a mild cycle, plus frag a couple of my larger corals that are getting too large---I'm going to give them the frags for the favor. AND they're going to drill my sump for the Iwaki external pump, which is one more job I don't have to do.
I'll be so glad when I'm through this, but I think it's going to be an excellent system, and much more stable. That'll give me much more water, and a refugium, and more flow, all in one. Happy un-birthday to us!
but we need to move into a house w/ a concrete floor before I'm getting anything bigger than what we have now.
