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latino277
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blown63chevy:
1) The skimmer I have is a turbo floater... This is a Gravity feed Skimmer :hmm3: so it has to be connect to the over flow... Not the biggest fan of this but what can I do...
2) the Fuge area will serve as an area for Macro and maybe a small frag grow (not sure about this... may do a seperate take for Grow outs) out and may have a DSB... not sure about that yet.
I wanted to feed the Fuge from the skimmer because of the slower rate of flow. do you think this is a bad Idea?
1) The skimmer I have is a turbo floater... This is a Gravity feed Skimmer :hmm3: so it has to be connect to the over flow... Not the biggest fan of this but what can I do...
2) the Fuge area will serve as an area for Macro and maybe a small frag grow (not sure about this... may do a seperate take for Grow outs) out and may have a DSB... not sure about that yet.
I wanted to feed the Fuge from the skimmer because of the slower rate of flow. do you think this is a bad Idea?
I'm familiar with teh turbofloater, had one before. 
I beleive you can set it up with a small pump to feed the input with, then you would not need the gravity feed and could set it up as described. may be a bit more work now but will probably pay off in the long run. It would also make it a lot easier to change in the future if you decided to go with a bigger skimmer or something.
I understand the fuge/growout area but it looks like your wasteing some space there to me. One idea to provide slow flow to the area would be to drill small holes in the baffel on the side with the fuge and large holes on the side with the LR. To be honest, I don't think you'll have too much flow thru the fuge even if you set it up as I described earlier.
But that's JMO. Good luck.
I beleive you can set it up with a small pump to feed the input with, then you would not need the gravity feed and could set it up as described. may be a bit more work now but will probably pay off in the long run. It would also make it a lot easier to change in the future if you decided to go with a bigger skimmer or something. I understand the fuge/growout area but it looks like your wasteing some space there to me. One idea to provide slow flow to the area would be to drill small holes in the baffel on the side with the fuge and large holes on the side with the LR. To be honest, I don't think you'll have too much flow thru the fuge even if you set it up as I described earlier.
But that's JMO. Good luck.
That would be my idea. From the drawing it looks like you have half of the area LR and the other half is empty. Or am I seeing it wrong.
latino277
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My Idea is for it to be a version of this:
http://www.melevsreef.com/acrylics/sumps/j/sump_model_j.html
http://www.melevsreef.com/acrylics/sumps/j/sump_model_j.html
OK I understand now. If you follow Melevs design, I think you will be OK. He is a intelgent member and has done his research. The only thing I would modify is what I stated earlier and that is for the output of teh skimmer to go into the LR area and not back into the "skimmer sump". That way you always have a fresh supply of water for teh skimmer.
As you can see, he has incorporated the skimmer into it's own little sump per say. I'm not sure how he gets the water into the fuge but it will be a slow flow I'm sure and the output is into the LR area. I assume that the water enters low and rises up to overflow thru the "teeth" into the LR area. The main flow is going thru the LR area as I see it.
Good luck and ask Melev if you have any questions about his design. I'm sure he will be more than happy to help you out.
As you can see, he has incorporated the skimmer into it's own little sump per say. I'm not sure how he gets the water into the fuge but it will be a slow flow I'm sure and the output is into the LR area. I assume that the water enters low and rises up to overflow thru the "teeth" into the LR area. The main flow is going thru the LR area as I see it.
Good luck and ask Melev if you have any questions about his design. I'm sure he will be more than happy to help you out.
Sounds like a good plan then. Good luck.
xtrstangx
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If you are going BB:
- Ditch the mechanical filtration unless you plan on cleaning/replacing the media daily. This will just collect detritus.
- Get a bigger skimmer. A MRC MR-2 or an ASM G3 would be much more appropriate.
- Fuges aren't necesary on a BB system. It actually defeats the point. In theory, you shouldn't be able to grow the macroalgae.. it would just die. If you run your tank successfully (as a BB), a fuge is not necesary.
- Your flow is a little on the low side.. If you could put a Sequence Dart on the CL, that would be better... or you could add another Tunze. I'd consider doing something along the lines of a wavemaker.. Right now all your flow is basically the same, except for the Tunze. If you put your CL on an Oceans Motion's unit or put the return on a Sea Swirl/Wavy Sea, you'd get a lot better results.
- Ditch the mechanical filtration unless you plan on cleaning/replacing the media daily. This will just collect detritus.
- Get a bigger skimmer. A MRC MR-2 or an ASM G3 would be much more appropriate.
- Fuges aren't necesary on a BB system. It actually defeats the point. In theory, you shouldn't be able to grow the macroalgae.. it would just die. If you run your tank successfully (as a BB), a fuge is not necesary.
- Your flow is a little on the low side.. If you could put a Sequence Dart on the CL, that would be better... or you could add another Tunze. I'd consider doing something along the lines of a wavemaker.. Right now all your flow is basically the same, except for the Tunze. If you put your CL on an Oceans Motion's unit or put the return on a Sea Swirl/Wavy Sea, you'd get a lot better results.
latino277
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Hey Melev, It's the angle I took the Pix.. they are acually 7 1/2" tall...
xtrstangx:
The fuge will be more LR ruble than anything else. I like to have space for fish to swim so more I can put into the sump the better i like it!
You think the AquaC EV 240 is to small for this system? I thought it was great for this?
Mech. filter went out the window! I'm not doing that!
flow:
Tunze 6100 3175 Gph
Mag 9.5 (sump return) ~600 Gph
Mag 5 (As a PH with 1/2 loc line) ~500 Gph
Powersweep 228 x 2 ~ 540 Gph
TOTLE= ~4815 Gph
That's almost a turnover rate of 39 time per hour. you think that is not enough?
xtrstangx:
The fuge will be more LR ruble than anything else. I like to have space for fish to swim so more I can put into the sump the better i like it!
You think the AquaC EV 240 is to small for this system? I thought it was great for this?
Mech. filter went out the window! I'm not doing that!
flow:
Tunze 6100 3175 Gph
Mag 9.5 (sump return) ~600 Gph
Mag 5 (As a PH with 1/2 loc line) ~500 Gph
Powersweep 228 x 2 ~ 540 Gph
TOTLE= ~4815 Gph
That's almost a turnover rate of 39 time per hour. you think that is not enough?
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