New Guy
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It's Spring!!!!!!!
Welcome! This is a great group! Go for the 120. I'm doing a beananimal drain with an internal overflow; there's a great, if veerrry long, thread in the Do It Yourself section of the site.
Hey! There are a few of us of the fairer sex around :wavehand: and we're not afraid to drill our tanks either!
welcome aboard! sump design varies - typically folks use the sump to house filtration (socks, skimmer), media (carbon, GFO), dosing (calcium, alkalinity, magnesium), and the return pump.
There are a lot of variations. I like a sump where everything dumps into one compartment which overflows to some sock holders to a center area with the skimmer, heaters and probes. The final area holds the return pump and has three baffles separating it - this causes water to go over-under-over the baffles removing bubbles.
There are some nice designs out there which have a refugium on one side with a center return.
regardless of your choice - make sure there is enough room in the sump for when the return pump is off (or looses power) - the top 1-2" of the tank run past the overflow. In the tank keep the returns high or vent them to prevent back siphoning
Do you have anything in mind that you have seen or thought of?
here are some pictures of a sump I built for a friend- note that this is a very high flow sump as it is running two large tanks - moves about 3000 GPH:
There are a lot of variations. I like a sump where everything dumps into one compartment which overflows to some sock holders to a center area with the skimmer, heaters and probes. The final area holds the return pump and has three baffles separating it - this causes water to go over-under-over the baffles removing bubbles.
There are some nice designs out there which have a refugium on one side with a center return.
regardless of your choice - make sure there is enough room in the sump for when the return pump is off (or looses power) - the top 1-2" of the tank run past the overflow. In the tank keep the returns high or vent them to prevent back siphoning
Do you have anything in mind that you have seen or thought of?
here are some pictures of a sump I built for a friend- note that this is a very high flow sump as it is running two large tanks - moves about 3000 GPH:
shaannondavis21
New member
Ok here is a question I want to build one using my 75 for a 90 gallon tank and a 120 but the problem is the 90 currently does not have an overflow. How do I deal with that?
shaannondavis21
New member
Any other way. Very afraid to drill into my 90 gallon tank
Willistein
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Plenty of people around that have done it - I bet you could get one of them to do it for you. I have a couple diamond hole saws, I'll check sizes.
