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Capt_Cully
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Terry, your sump set ups are always amazing.
Wow. Each of those DOS/DDR units are very pricey. Glad you picked it up here. I ended up going with the BRS dosers and a few plastic slimline water containers from amazon.
Are you going with a 10x flow rate? I'm trying to do that with my 90 and I'm finding it challenging. I'm having to modify my overflow weirs just so that I can get that level of flow into the overflow chamber. I also had to navigate around our heater in the basement, making the plumbing more of an engineering feat to reduce head loss. I wish I could have done the straight downward piping like you have.
Are you going with a 10x flow rate? I'm trying to do that with my 90 and I'm finding it challenging. I'm having to modify my overflow weirs just so that I can get that level of flow into the overflow chamber. I also had to navigate around our heater in the basement, making the plumbing more of an engineering feat to reduce head loss. I wish I could have done the straight downward piping like you have.
I don't have a lot of demanding corals right now. My alk has stayed at 8 for a long time. I've hesitated to start dosing because that is essentially what they recommend as the titration point. I used a 60G as my refugium (because I had it sitting around), which flows into my sump (about 30G). So my downstairs volume is about the same as the DT. I think that consequence of that has been a lower concentration of nutrients to worry about in the refugium (ie slower chaeto growth) and a lower consumption of CA in the DT. So far all of the regular water parameters have stayed rock solid low... So I'm waiting.
I'm at a flow rate of about 510. It is my first basement sump. I went on the advice of someone to use a 3/4" return pipe... At the time, it matched the pump. That turned out to be very inadequate. So I will be repiping up to the floor joists to reduce head loss. I'm also going to gravity feed the pump so that it is more of a straight shot upward on the return side. That process requires me to have the sump drilled. Figuring out this piece of the puzzle was more difficult than I anticipated. If I didn't have the Neptune flow rate sensor -- I wouldn't even know where I'm at. I've thought about just leaving it at 510GPH. That said, I think the pump will be more efficient with the straight shot. With any luck, that will reduce the head loss enough so that I can back off on the pump and reduce its power consumption. I've been trying to avoid using an AC pump. I don't think you could hit your flow rate with a DC pump without using 2 of them. I'll let you know when I get the Sicce in place in the modified plumbing condition.
I'm at a flow rate of about 510. It is my first basement sump. I went on the advice of someone to use a 3/4" return pipe... At the time, it matched the pump. That turned out to be very inadequate. So I will be repiping up to the floor joists to reduce head loss. I'm also going to gravity feed the pump so that it is more of a straight shot upward on the return side. That process requires me to have the sump drilled. Figuring out this piece of the puzzle was more difficult than I anticipated. If I didn't have the Neptune flow rate sensor -- I wouldn't even know where I'm at. I've thought about just leaving it at 510GPH. That said, I think the pump will be more efficient with the straight shot. With any luck, that will reduce the head loss enough so that I can back off on the pump and reduce its power consumption. I've been trying to avoid using an AC pump. I don't think you could hit your flow rate with a DC pump without using 2 of them. I'll let you know when I get the Sicce in place in the modified plumbing condition.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
wow
wow
your sump area always looks amazing Terry!
What new pump are you getting? What skimmer is that?
wow
your sump area always looks amazing Terry!
What new pump are you getting? What skimmer is that?
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
did you sell dos units?
did you sell dos units?
what's going on over there?
did you sell dos units?
what's going on over there?
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