Just Upgraged!
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jedininja
New member
I think there are only a few of us from the North Bay. But I belive thier is a North bay Reefers club. You can check with them if you want someone local to come take a look. Otherwise, if you let us know if the tank is reefready, predrilled, how much flow you want, if you want sump and closed loop or powerheads, we ccan help you right here.
fishnfst
New member
Check out melev's reef abundance of sumps.. It'll give you a bunch of different ideas of how you could set it up...
http://www.melevsreef.com/allmysumps.html
http://www.melevsreef.com/allmysumps.html
TikiDan
Premium Member
I was bored so I read up on www.Melevsreef.com And drew up these plans in Illustrator. Does it make sense?
xinumaster
reef addict
I think the carbon should be after the skimmer.
sfsuphysics
Active member
Quick and dirty way...
3 chamber
chamber 1 - return & skimmer, this will be your filtering chamber, the constant height on the water makes your skimmer stay constant.
Chamber 2 - Refugium chamber- This is where your macro algaes and other things will live.. personally I also like keeping "weedy" corals in this area (yellow polyps are great!), the eat up the "solids" that macro algae can't..
Chamber 3 - return, I don't deal with bubble traps or any of that crap. Bubbles are gonig to come from water flowing over the edge of one chamber and dropping (waterfall style) into another, make this chamber big enough and keep your pump to the far side and bubbles usually will not migrate that far, unless it's a HUGE drop.
Alternately you can go a 2 chamber design, instead of a dedicated refugium chamber simply have a combo refugium/return chamber and put some egg crate in there to keep any macro algae from floating into the return pump.
Find where your skimmer exit is, put your carbon there, no need for a dedicated holding area just for that.
3 chamber
chamber 1 - return & skimmer, this will be your filtering chamber, the constant height on the water makes your skimmer stay constant.
Chamber 2 - Refugium chamber- This is where your macro algaes and other things will live.. personally I also like keeping "weedy" corals in this area (yellow polyps are great!), the eat up the "solids" that macro algae can't..
Chamber 3 - return, I don't deal with bubble traps or any of that crap. Bubbles are gonig to come from water flowing over the edge of one chamber and dropping (waterfall style) into another, make this chamber big enough and keep your pump to the far side and bubbles usually will not migrate that far, unless it's a HUGE drop.
Alternately you can go a 2 chamber design, instead of a dedicated refugium chamber simply have a combo refugium/return chamber and put some egg crate in there to keep any macro algae from floating into the return pump.
Find where your skimmer exit is, put your carbon there, no need for a dedicated holding area just for that.
kevin95695
Member of the Registry
Budget? Cheap? Ghetto sump: Rubbermaid tub, bub.
